Leaves On Paper
A 2 hour Introduction Online Workshop of Botanical Printing On Paper With Elisabeth Viguie Culshaw
4-6pm BST on the 2nd September 2026
Join live, or watch the recordings in your own time.
Making unique mono prints on paper for Art only using leaves and flowers. Rooted in Nature it will allow the participants to create unique work that links them with a time and a place.
Traditional Natural dying knowledge is used to learn to securely fix the colors. In this workshop will introduce robust mordants, dyes extraction as well as choice and preparation of our paper. It is a great introduction to the technique of Botanical printing on paper using Elisabeth’s expertise. It will open the door to working sustainably and locally for crisps and long lasting prints. We will use the simmering method for prompt results. It is suitable for beginners, will only require low tech set up, can be done in a kitchen space. It is a great introduction to Elisabeth newly’s published method.
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Class Resources
Zoom links, recordings, and PDFs will be available here. You will receive an email when this page is updated.
Zoom links, recordings, and PDFs will be available here. You will receive an email when this page is updated.
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.
