Ocean Blue: Cyanotype workshop

Join artist Lizzie Cardozo for a Cyanotype workshop. Inspired by the National Maritime Museum's maritime collections, this workshop explores our human exchanges with the ocean through printmaking. Using materials such as fern leaves, dried seaweed, and beach-combed objects, you will create a series of prints exploring your personal connection to the sea.

Cyanotype photography is a camera-less technique that involves laying an object on paper coated with a compound of iron salts, before exposing it to sunlight and washing with water to create blue and white images. As a process dependent on iron salts, water and the Sun, cyanotype printing is inherently symbolic of the symbiotic relationship between earth, sea and sky, and our dependence on these natural elements.

In this workshop you’ll gain further knowledge of cyanotype print making, from treating the paper to mixing the ingredients to expose the image, before creating your own beautiful vivid cyanotype prints.

All materials will be provided. We encourage you to wear old clothes, as if the cyanotype exposing liquids come into contact with clothing they may stain.