29/05/2026
Join photographer and teacher Elsie Garner in exploring one of photography’s oldest printing processes. Learn to create botanical and object-based prints using sunlight, chemistry, and natural materials. You will journey through the history of this camera-less process and discover the process from start to finish.
The workshop includes at least two hours of uninterrupted creative flow, allowing you the freedom to experiment, play, and create a series of your own unique prints.
You are encouraged to bring personal items to incorporate into your work. Objects that work beautifully include flowers, leaves, shells, lace, jewellery, glass, buttons, twigs, transparent materials, and other flat or semi-transparent treasures.
Alongside the classic deep Prussian Blue tones of traditional Cyanotypes, there will be an opportunity to transform your prints using natural tannin dyes such as beetroot, tea, and coffee, as well as Hydrogen Peroxide to intensify and alter tones. These organic interventions create rich, earthy variations and unexpected colour palettes unique to each print.
By the end of the workshop, each participant will leave with approximately 3–5 original Cyanotype prints in A4 and A5 sizes, alongside the knowledge and confidence to continue exploring the process independently.
Sunday 7th June, 10.00-13.00
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