Autumn Programme 2025

• Please see below information about our Autumn Workshop Programme

• Evening Workshops, Weekend Workshops and Open days available

• Places are limited so booking essential, please contact us here or email studio@soulisquoy.co.uk.

• Programme subsidised by Creative Scotland Extended Programme Fund

Evening Workshops:

Japanese Bookbinding with Carol Dunbar

Date: Tuesdays 26 August to 1 October (6 sessions)

Time: 6.30-8.30pm

Tutor: Carol Dunbar

Class size: 6

Level: Beginners and those with some bookbinding experience

Class Fee: £130 All materials provided.

The sessions will introduce a series of traditional Japanese stab-bindings. Over the course of the six weeks, you will have the opportunity to produce a series of hand-made books using a variety of decorative papers and stitching styles.

Introduction to Printmaking with Laura Phillips

Date: Wednesdays 10 September to 15 October (6 sessions)

Time: 6.30-8.30pm

Tutor: Laura Phillips

Class size: 6

Level: Beginner

Class Fee: £130 All materials provided.

This is an ideal class for those with no previous printmaking experience. It will give a taster of several of the main printmaking techniques – relief, intaglio and letterpress.  With two sessions devoted to each, you will have the opportunity to find out what’s involved in each   process and create some prints along the way.

Make your own Seasonal Greeting Card with Laura Drever

Date: Tuesdays 28 October to 2 December (6 sessions)

Time: 6.30-8.30pm

Tutor: Laura Drever

Class size: 6

Level: Beginner

Class Fee: £130 All materials provided.

Our popular annual card making class will introduce basic lino-cutting techniques to produce images with a seasonal theme. These will then be printed in a small edition of 10 cards each using our Columbian press.

Poster Club with Laura Phillips

Wednesdays 29 October to 3 December*

Time: 6.30-8.30pm

Tutor: Laura Phillips

Class size: 6

Level: Beginner

Class Fee: £100 All materials provided.

Explore our unique collection of wooden typeface and create a colourful poster of your own devising, printed on our Columbian press.

*NB In order to maximise press time, sessions will be staggered, with participants attending 4 classes in total over the six weeks.

Weekend Workshops:

Introduction to Wood Engraving with Gillian Jones

Date: TBC 27&28 September

Time: 10am-4pm

Tutor: Gillian Jones

Class size: 6

Level: Beginner, some relief cutting experience would be of benefit.

Class Fee: £130 All materials provided.

The workshop will introduce the basic principles of wood engraving, the tools used and the printing process. You will create and print a block with your own design/image. Wood engravings are cut on the end grain of woods such as box and lemon and are distinct from woodcuts which use the side grain. Wood engraving produces very fine detail and is traditionally on a small scale.

NB Although this is an introduction suitable for beginners, it involves working at a small scale and in fine detail.

Gillian Jones is an accomplished painter and printmaker based in Cromarty, who specialises in wood engraving.  http://www.gillianjonesartist.co.uk/woodengraving.html

Introduction to Screenprint with Nick Gordon

Date: TBC 4&5 October

Time: 10am-4pm

Tutor: Nick Gordon

Class size: 4

Level: Beginner

Class Fee: £130

Over the course of the two-day workshop you will have the opportunity to create a two-colour screenprint created with hand drawn stencils and exposed on to the screen using light sensitive emulsion.

Introduction to Collagraph with Mike Waight

Date: TBC 25 & 26 October  

Time: 10am-4pm

Tutor: Mike Waight

Class size: 6

Level: Beginner/those with some experience

Class Fee: £130

(This workshop is supported with assistance from OIC Culture Fund 2025/26)

Collagraph is a perfect introduction to the intaglio and etching printing process. The two-day workshop will include preparing images suitable for the technique, transferring them to your plate and printing a small edition using our etching presses. Now retired, Mike was senior print technician at Peacock in Aberdeen. He continues to work with many of Scotland’s leading artists, most notably Frances Walker. He first visited Soulisquoy in 2007, and most recently in April this year.

Open Days

Adana Day

Stromness Mulled Wine Sunday 23 November (TBC)

Drop-in 12noon-4pm

We have recently refurbished our four Adana presses. These small presses have been popular since they were first introduced in the 1920s for home-based letterpress enthusiasts.

We will have them set up with a variety of seasonal messages for you to try yourself.

NB Not suitable for under 5 years. All children must be accompanied by an adult

Christmas Family Day

Saturday 6 December

Drop-in 11am-3pm

We will have a range of seasonal images set up for you to ink up, print and take home.

NB Not suitable for under 5 years. All children must be accompanied by an adult