Thinking Ahead - Winter/Spring Programme 2026

• Please see below more information about our Evening Classes

• Week day Workshops, Weekend Workshops, Open days and Evening Classes are also available

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

• Programme subsidised by Creative Scotland Extended Programme Fund

Masterclass Residency Programme

Weekend Masterclasses

Copperplate Etching with Mike Waight

Date: 7&8  March

Class size: 6

Level: Beginners and those wishing to refresh their skills

Class Fee: £130

The two-day class will cover the principal techniques of traditional copperplate etching, including plate preparation, aquatint, inking up and printing process. Participants will be able to create a small edition of prints.

Bookbinding with Gillian Stewart 

Hard backed Journal

Date: 21&22 March

Class size: 6

Level: Beginners who are good with their hands, as well as those with some experience.

Class Fee: £130

The weekend will introduce the skills, materials and tools to create a beautiful hardbacked journal.

Boxmaking  with Gillian Stewart

Date: 28&29 March

Class size: 6

Level: Beginners who are good with their hands, as well as those with some experience.

Class Fee: £130

With an abundance of carefully selected bookcloths and papers to choose from, everyone will leave with one unique box to take away, and the skills to make more at home.

Based in Glasgow, Gillian is a prize-winning bookbinder, a QEST Ambassador and graduate of Glasgow School of Art, she founded JuJu books in 2017. This will be Gillian’s third visit to Soulisquoy. https://www.jujubooks.co.uk/

Introduction to Wood Engraving with David Robertson

Date: 9&10 May OR 16&17 May

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.

We are delighted to welcome David to Soulisquoy and Orkney. Based in Bath, David Robertson is an award-winning artist, associate member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and member of the Society of Wood Engravers. https://www.davidrobertsonprintmaker.com/about-me