In Conversation with Fiona Mackenzie on Sacred

WE SAT DOWN WITH ARTIST FIONA MACKENZIE TO DISCUSS HER NEW EXHIBITION ‘SACRED’ ON DISPLAY AT HIGHLAND PRINT STUDIO, AND WHAT SACRED MEANS TO HER SACRED is a deeply personal exhibition by Fiona Mackenzie — a visual essay on what it means to hold something sacred. Through intricate wood engravings, expressive paintings, and collected ephemera, Mackenzie invites us to look ...
In Conversation with Fiona Mackenzie on Sacred An exhibition by Fiona Mackenzie at Highland Print Studio 23rd August - 4th October 2025 We sat down with artist Fiona Mackenzie to discuss her new exhibition 'Sacred' on display at Highland Print Studio, and what sacred means to her. SACRED is a deeply personal exhibition by Fiona Mackenzie — a visual essay ...

Members’ Christmas Exhibition 2024

We recently had a successful festive opening night to celebrate our Members' 2024 Christmas Exhibition. Thank you to all that could make it down to the studio to join us, it was great to see so many faces, familiar and new and to celebrate with everyone. It was a real start to the festive season for us at the studio ...

A Wee Hand Tint Job

When I started life as a printmaker I would probably thought that hand colouring or tinting an image was cheating. If it wasn’t printed, it wasn’t a real print. Now that I am much closer to my demise, I am a bit more relaxed about things like this. I’ve grown to accept a bit of variation or individual character within …

Me and ImpPotent III: Island Hopping

It’s been a long delay, but at last I have found the time to conclude the ImpPotent trilogy of blogposts. What better time than another lockdown… If you remember from the first two episodes, ImpPotent was a 1996 project from Highland Printmakers Workshop (now Studio), which celebrated the Hillman Imp, the iconic and notorious Scottish built car. Artists were commissioned …

Accordion Book Fold

The folded books, sometimes called concertina, accordions or leporellos, originally developed from scrolls. Scrolls were awkward to read as they needed to be continually unwound and rewound to access specific passages. By folding the length of cloth, papyrus or paper into a zigzag to form pages, reading became a much simpler task.  As a book form it has achieved high …

Me and ImPotent II: Knitting an Amazing Story

The idea behind ImpPotent was to create a one-off special edition of the Hillman Imp, with artists working on accessories and features for the car. In total there were sixteen commissioned pieces including an Ashtray Temple by David Mach and my own Instruction Manual. David’s ashtray reflected his work of the time in miniature by constructing a temple from Corgi …

Me and ImpPotent

As Alison has already started delving into our project archive, I thought I could take us back even further – to 1996, when we were known as Highland Printmakers Workshop & Gallery. I always felt that last bit was a clumsy add on, and ironically one of the most memorable works produced during this period didn’t require a gallery. Impotent. …

The Restoration Man.

We are delighted to have a guest blogger, Michael O’Donnell. We have fond memories of Mick’s time in the Studio seven years ago, and it is great to see he is finally putting his printmaking into action. What took him so long?… John Greig & Sons, Edinburgh 1810 (later becoming D & J Greig). In 2013 I was to spend …

Block Print Challenge

Block printing is one of the oldest and most immediate forms of printmaking with the earliest surviving examples of printing onto cloth originating in China around 4500 years ago. However it was in India where people really began to experiment with natural dyes and pattern taking block printing to greater heights. Specific patterns and colours became synonymous with distinctive areas …

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