Botanical Printing On Paper
Botanical Printing On Paper with Elisabeth Viguie Culshaw
Three Live Online Sessions at 4-6pm BST on the 14th, 21st, and 28th September 2027
Join live, or watch the recordings in your own time.
Botanical printing is the Art of creating colourful and crisp monoprints on paper using as a colour source only botanical element. From your local leaves and flowers, you will learn how to record your garden on permanent projects using a sustainable and unique process.
In a three weeks course we will learn to:
- Select our papers for best results
- Learn to pre fix our prints for a range of colours
- Learn to identify and select our Botanical elements and natural dyes
- Prepare a mini printing station
- Learn to print using an immersion dye bath
- Learn to print using colour blankets for colourful background
- Learn to to neutralise and protect your prints
You do not need a large space for taking this course nor specialised knowledge in natural dyes. You will be working on thin strips of paper perfect for book making, collages. PDF Handout provided.
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Class Resources
Tips on getting started, equipment and materials lists are now available.
Zoom links, and PDFs will be available here. You will receive an email when this page is updated.
Tips on getting started, equipment and materials lists are now available.
Zoom links, and PDFs will be available here. You will receive an email when this page is updated.
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Session One
Setting up the scene, the dye station, selecting leaves, and reviewing the range of papers.
Tuesday 14th September 2027 4-6pm BST
Setting up the scene, the dye station, selecting leaves, and reviewing the range of papers.
Tuesday 14th September 2027 4-6pm BST
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Session Two
Making a dye bath from natural botanical sources, making prints using the immersion method.
Tuesday 21st September 2027 4-6pm BST
Making a dye bath from natural botanical sources, making prints using the immersion method.
Tuesday 21st September 2027 4-6pm BST
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Session Three
Making a tannin bath and processing blankets. Making prints using the steaming method with a dye blanket. Rinsing, neutralising, protecting prints.
Tuesday 28th September 2027 4-6pm BST
Making a tannin bath and processing blankets. Making prints using the steaming method with a dye blanket. Rinsing, neutralising, protecting prints.
Tuesday 28th September 2027 4-6pm BST
Elisabeth Viguie Culshaw
Elisabeth Viguie Culshaw (aka Betty) is a color maker and educator, working only from Nature. Originally trained in Decorative Arts by Christie’s the auction house, she spend her working life in heritage stencilled schemes conservation.
In 2015 she branched out to the Eco world and is currently essentially working from plants and earth pigments in both Botanical printing and Indigo dyeing.
Born in France she lives and works in Scotland where she runs a sustainable studio in Glasgow. She frequently travels to teach and learn to France and South East Asia.
She is the author of “Botanical Printing On Paper” (Crowood press 2026), The online Botanical printing method “The True Colour of the Cotinus”, and grows “The Indigo Plot” an Indigo garden in the grounds of the Glasgow Botanical garden. She runs Eco colours retreats in France and Thailand.
In 2026 she will host “Shades of Blue” a solo exhibition about Indigo in Scotland.
