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Discover & explore The Art of Cyanotype Printing a creative method  which has used by artists, photographers and botanists for centuries

A 4 hour workshop  no experience required

When you attend this workshop you’ll  be able to enjoy a fun and relaxing day using natural plants and sunlight  to create your own botanical prints. 

This workshop is focused on exploring plant textures and the beauty of Cyanotype blue. Attend and enjoy learning among the colourful fragrant flowers & the tranquil environment of Sussex Prairie Gardens 

Workshop Fee: £70.00 Includes- Materials Provided,  access to Sussex Prairie Gardens and your own unique sun prints.

Book your space with Cressida at cjwmurray@gmail.com tel. 07879838035

Refreshments – tea, coffee and biscuits availably for attendees during the duration of the workshop only.

When you participate you’ll be learning through guided demonstration and permitting yourself to enter a child like tactile creative process. Learning with the spirit of play allows ones mind to open to enjoyable exploration and discovery as you partake the fulfilling experience of making your own prints 

After you have attended you’ll  not only have created a fond new memory of a pleasant and fulfilling day you also take away a new skill that you can use again to maintain the playful spirit of creativity. 

• Gain a new skill 
• Explore your creativity 
• Uplift your spirits 
• Connect with nature
• Explore the magic of plant alchemy 

Be at one with nature 

BIO Julia White

” I am a freelance artist and printmaker. 

I was born in the north of England and spent my teenage years in Cyprus which gave me an amazing freedom to explore and develop a sense of the natural world.

I settled in Sussex in 2006 and trained locally in printmaking, predominantly etching along with having young children this gave me the opportunity to explore the countryside around me. I started foraging for plants to study which became an obsession and brought me closer to nature, collecting both plants and memories from the Sussex Downs, where I now live.

My work is etched onto zinc plate and inked by hand. I often use a combination of the original image with photographs combining my prints with digital design I take on my The final image is hand finished in gold leaf. In keeping with a more holistic ethos I use vegetable based inks as much as possible and have been experimenting with making dyes, inks and powders from the plants and land of the Sussex Downs.”

Bio Cressida

Cressida did an English and Drama degree at Exeter University and gained a teaching qualification. She began her career in London. 

Having married and raised her children she trained as a professional Photographer / Printmaker and settled in Lewes, where she is very much involved with the local arts community. She cofounded ‘Lewes Creatives’, a collaborative of nine Artists and Makers, who organise two to three shows a year, promoting and selling their work. They have also previously taken up residence in a gallery space on Lewes High Street and each member exhibits in other locations in Sussex and beyond.

Cressida divides her time working as a Portrait Photographer and Printmaker (using both textiles and paper) and teaching workshops in Printmaking. 

She is a trustee of a new Museum in Lewes and has recently been learning the natural dyes process at Ditchling Museum of Arts and Crafts, with the intention of making her printmaking more sustainable.

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