Announcing cyanotype workshop dates & prints
Dec 03, 2025 8:16 pm
Limbo, Vegvísir Series, hand embellished screen print on archival paper, 60 x 60 cm
Dear good people,
Hope you are well on the lead up to Christmas.
A few updates on events & workshops here and a little more depth about the works. Perhaps a few things that might tempt you for unique Christmas pressies starting at £45.
In this newsletter:
- Cyanotype course dates & link to booking
- Vegvísir screen prints
- Geli plate prints
- Stolen Orange 10 days left to see & online gallery
Cyanotype course dates & link to booking
Spring term at Phoenix Art Space
About
Discover the art of cyanotype printing in one day
Cyanotype printing is a painterly, low-toxic way to produce unique photographic prints using light-sensitive cyanotype fluid, light, and water.
This one-day workshop includes an introduction to the history and science of cyanotypes, along with a hands-on exploration of the materials and techniques involved. Learn how to prepare paper or fabric, expose and develop images using both objects and photographic negatives, and experiment with methods such as wet-on-wet application and layered compositions.
Most materials and equipment will be provided including a range of materials and negatives to experiment with. Students are welcome to bring their own objects to use in the exposure process, e.g. flowers, leaves, utensils, semi-transparent materials, as well as any fabric to print onto.
At the end of the day everyone will have a series of prints to take home.
This course is suitable for all levels.
Costs: £75
Times: 10.30 – 16.30
Date: Saturday 24 January
Location: White Room, Phoenix Art Space
Maximum: 8
Vegvísir screen prints
A series of 24 unique 1 of 1, single, multi layered & hand embellished prints on archival paper. For enquires click here
Some of the series are still available!
Unframed £150 - £170
Framed £210 - £230
More about the work:
A Vegvísir is magical ancient Icelandic stave, a wayfinder used for safe passage across the perilous seas. Whilst writing a funding proposal to make immersive sculptural work with ghost netting earlier in the year; the creation of this drawing (now screen prints) became my constant companion. A detangling then re entangling of entangled thoughts and feelings about the environmental damage to the sea, its inhabitants and us.
Our fables, folklore, stories serve as cautionary tales to warn of bad behaviour punishable by lives lost at sea and good rewarded with abundance of riches from below the waves. Listening carefully, can we feel the connection to the earth and sea?
Contemplating the vibrations of nature, life tingling… fizzing before our eyes a riot of colour before deaths final blows, like the neon corals last ditch attempt to save itself. A blurring of vision… focus unfocus as if underwater, mingle with the networks that nourish and keep the blood coursing through us… pulsating under our surface.
Geli plate prints
Guide Series
Limited edition of 10 each unique
A4 geli plate prints
acrylic paint on cartridge paper
signed & dated
from the studio £45
posted £50
Over the summer, while developing proposals for exhibitions and funding, I kept returning to the immediacy and responsiveness of gelli plate printing. The process became a space for intuitive experimentation—a way to work quickly, physically, and without hesitation.
This series began with impressions taken from man-made objects, particularly plastics I collected along the seafront. These fragments of human impact—things once used, discarded, or forgotten—became tools for mark-making. Early prints featured objects such as a fisherman’s discarded rubber glove, but over time my focus shifted. I found myself drawn to the directness of my bare hand, embracing something more human, raw, and honest. The hand became both subject and instrument, reminding me that while our touch can cause environmental and social harm, it also carries profound potential: intuition, strength, compassion, and healing.
The most recent works emerged directly from a transformative Reiki session with a powerful healer—a moment that reconnected me with my own inner energy. As a holistic therapist myself, I hadn’t realised how far I had drifted from that grounding force until I felt it return. During the treatment my hands alternated between cold and heat, and behind my closed eyes I witnessed bursts of purple light dissolving the brown clouds that had gathered within me. I left the session and went straight to the studio, allowing these sensations to flow through ink, plate, and paper.
These prints hold the traces of that experience. They are impressions of the hand not only as a physical form but as an extension of intention—an instrument capable of both imprinting and healing, destruction and renewal. They reflect a movement back toward presence, empowerment, and a deeper dialogue between body, environment, and creative process.
They stand as a reminder that each of us carries an innate intuition—one that can guide us, if we allow ourselves to listen.
The Stolen Orange news
Only 10 days left to see in person, open Tuesday - Sunday 11-5 until 14th December. Bond Street Gallery, 4 Bond Street, Brighton.
However you can view the works displayed & check out the price list here:
If you would like to meet at the gallery for a personal tour do get in touch.
All the very best to you
Nina
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ninagarstang@hotmail.co.uk
