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Cyanotype Day: Printing Memories

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Sunday, 5 July 2026
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Sunday, 5 July 2026 - 10:00am to 4:00pm

Explore the historic photographic process of Cyanotype in this creative workshop focused on migration, belonging, memory, and connection.

 

Learn how to create prints on paper and fabric using light-sensitive materials, working with recycled objects, natural forms, and personal imagery.

Using photo acetates and found items, you’ll build layered compositions inspired by themes of migration, lifelong learning, health, and personal connection.

Combine your cyanotype works into a final mixed-media collage or artwork that reflects your own ideas, memories, and experiences.

You’ll leave with a collection of cyanotype prints on paper and fabric, alongside a finished art object or collage piece.

Basic materials provided. Food and drink is also available for purchase throughout the session from our cafés.

This workshop is suitable for ages 16+.

 

 

What is cyanotype?

Cyanotype is an early photographic printing technique that uses a light-sensitive solution and UV exposure to create distinctive blue and white prints.

Originally developed in the 19th century, the process is known for its rich cyan-blue tones and experimental approach to image-making using natural objects, photographs, textures, and layered materials.

 

Artist ( Description ): 

Angenita Teekens is an award-winning artist with more than thirty years of experience facilitating community art projects. She has worked with Essex galleries, schools, local community groups and charities.

She studied at the Art Academy in Tilburg in the Netherlands, where she gained a teaching qualification in Art, Design and Dutch, and later completed a Master’s degree in Sculptural Practice at the University of Essex.

Her own practice  revolves around our relationship with the Natural World. 

She is convinced that the way forward to a socially and environmentally sustainable world can be achieved by using creative expressions to connect  people of all backgrounds  to their communities and natural environment. 

At the moment she is working on projects around the energy transition and the heritage of Nuclear Culture in and around the River Blackwater. 

Her Teaching and Artist practice go hand in hand, she really enjoys creating an open learning environment. Her experience covers disciplines like photography, drawing and painting, mixed media, ceramics and textiles. 

Telephone: 
01206 713 700
Other Info: 

Lewis Gardens, High Street, Colchester, Essex CO1 1JH

Venue ( Address ): 

Lewis Gardens, High Street, Colchester, Essex CO1 1JH

Firstsite , Colchester

 


 

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