Make your own cyanotype with artist Kay Walsh.

In a series of 8 workshops we will be exploring the green spaces within the local area.

After foraging for interesting textures and shapes from foliage, seed heads and natural materials, you’ll use an ancient process of camera-less image making to design your own cyanotype.

This is a magical process that uses sun and water to expose and fix the images. Its beauty lies in its ability to distort and manipulate images with its distinctive blue hue.

Whatever our relationship to nature is we can all get closer. Through a series of encounters we hope to introduce local residents and workers to listen in, see and experience what may have been hidden or previously unnoticed within the urban environment.

Research shows even a micro encounter with the natural world can improve mood and well being by tuning into our surroundings.

In a series of 8 workshops we will be exploring the green spaces within the local area using our senses to create, observe and record and inhabit these spaces in new ways.

Artist Bio

Kay Walsh has exhibited both nationally and internationally and has investigated ideas of nature and our impact on places and spaces within it.

Using photography, video, sound and text her work explores narratives that exist within specific landscapes.

Slow movement and slow looking take the viewer on a journey in search of something often hidden or hard to find.

In her film 'All His Rights' ideas of sustainability, and rewilding are explored through social history, ecology and environmental concerns raised around the Red Deer.

Current work focuses on light that occupies the spaces within a domestic setting. Documenting the changing occupation of a family home through photography and text.