Stone Lithography Evening Course

Taking place over a series of 6 consecutive Thursday evenings, this course explores the original type of lithography still favoured by many artists. 

Drawing directly onto a prepared limestone surface gives opportunity for a spontaneous approach to mark-making. Find out how artists with wide-ranging styles, from MC Escher, Picasso, Jasper Johns, and Kathe Kolwitz, have delighted in the subtleties of the stone.

Taking place over six evenings, this course gives a comprehensive introduction to stone lithography and is suitable for people without previous lithography experience or for those wishing to refresh their skills. Emphasis is given to stone lithography as a drawing and painting medium, working directly on this wonderful robust drawing surface.

Focusing on learning the process and working mainly in monochrome, we will explore traditional approaches to mark-making as well as alternative drawing methods. Learn all about processing images on stone and how to stabilise the image for printing before taking several prints to show the development of your drawing at different stages. During the course we will work to image size: 26 x 36.5cm.

A 15% Early Bird Discount is available for bookings made 1 month prior to the start date!

Completion of this course also entitles you to a FREE 3-month Associate Membership to use the studio and consolidate your skills.

Alastair Clark

Specialising in stone and plate lithography, Alastair has over 30 years of teaching experience at Edinburgh Printmakers, and previously taught at Edinburgh College of Art.

As Head of Editions at Edinburgh Printmakers, he works on print projects as a collaborative expert printmaker with invited artists, producing print editions for Edinburgh Printmakers' publishing programme that are exhibited and sold all over the world.

Alastair has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad, and was elected as a professional member of the SSA in 1997. Recent solo exhibitions include Dark Matters at Edinburgh Printmakers exploring themes inspired by astronomy, while Skylights drew inspiration from the Northern Lights. Recent series of prints include Eutopians which responded to Brexit and the ongoing series An Island Time which explores climate change.