Workshops

UPCOMING Workshops/ Open Studios / Markets / Talks

WORKSHOP / Cyanotype at the seashore / Fife Seaweed Fest 2025

Thursday 11 September / 10-3 / £60 / SOLD OUT

Coffee/tea & snack provided. Bring packed lunch.

This workshop can accommodate 4 people and is suitable for those new to cyanotype and more experienced. All materials are provided but if you like, bring something flat (seaweed, plant material, feather, lace, stencil, negative. I’ll bring some pressed seaweed and other things to work with.

We will, weather permitting, make some prints at the house and walk along to the beach in St Monans (5 minute walk) and experiment with making prints at the shore.

WORKSHOP / Seaweed Darkroom / Fife Seaweed Fest 2025

Wed 10 Sept / 10-12 / £10 / SOLD OUT

Dolphin Centre, Tayport

Click HERE for more info and to book

WORKSHOP / Kitchen Darkroom / Chemigrams

Saturday 6 Sept / 12-4 / Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee.

In this lo-fi workshop, you’ll learn how to make experimental, abstract images.

Known as chemigrams, these lie somewhere between photography and painting. This process involves using light-sensitive paper, photographic chemicals and household products, including oil, masking tape, lemon juice and toothpaste.

Plant based developers will be used alongside traditional darkroom chemicals to develop your images. There will also be the opportunity to try making a photogram with a small leaf/plant/feather.

For all info and to book HERE

WORKSHOP / Cyanotype Creations at Pittenweem Art Festival

Wednesday 6 August 2025 / 10:30 – 12 / £12 / SOLD OUT

Join Kit in making your very own blue and white cyanotype prints in the sun. Discover more about this photographic printing process which doesn’t need a camera! All materials provided but bring something small and flat if you like, e.g. a stencil, leaf, feather – nothing bigger than A5. The Fish Market can get chilly so ensure that you bring some layers.

Suitable for ages 7+ (under 7s can attend accompanied by an adult).

Fishmarket, Pittenweem Harbour, KY10 2ND

FOR ALL INFO AND TO BOOK HERE

WORKSHOP / Kitchen Darkroom / Chemigrams

Saturday 10 May / 12-4 / Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee. / SOLD OUT

for more info and to book click here

PREVIOUS Workshops / Open Studios / Markets / Talks

WORKSHOP / Diversity Exposed / Cyanotype

Introduction to Cyanotype

Saturday, 15 February 2025 / 10 ‐ 11

Courtyard Classroom, Bowhouse, St Monans, KY10 2DB

For more info and booking

Create Your Own Pinhole Camera

Sun 23 Feb 2025 / 10:30 – 17:00 / DCA / Dundee

For more info and booking

Go back to basics with this workshop and learn how to construct your own cardboard camera, then use it to take photos.

This class will cover the basics of pinhole photography followed by the magical chemical process of developing black and white prints in a darkroom.

WORKSHOP / Cyanotype at DCA

Sat 21 September 2024, 10:30 – 17:30

£120 (£105)

A popular method of image creation with artists, you’ll learn how to use UV light equipment and (potentially) Scottish sunlight, to create atmospheric photographic images in the deepest of blues.

The day will start off with a demonstration of this early photographic process, including coating of paper with cyanotype solution, making an image from a negative (if you want to), using flat objects to make images, exposing, washing, drying and information about toning.

You will be working inside (including briefly in the darkroom but not in full darkness) and outside (for exposures) and the number of prints made will in part depend on UV intensity that day.

To book: https://www.dca.org.uk/events/NKC-cyanotype-on-paper/

WORKSHOP / Argyrotype at DCA

Sun 22 September 2024, 10:30 – 17:30

Tickets: £120 (£105)

Create atmospheric Van Dyke Brown tinted prints using an early photographic process.

The day will start with a brief discussion of early photographic history and process followed by a demonstration of the process. You’ll then learn the different stages, including preparing an image from a photograph or negative, coating of paper with argyrotype solution, using the sun and/or a uv light box to make a contact print and developing, washing and drying.

You can use objects or photographs: send in up to four photos in advance so we can prepare negatives.

To book: https://www.dca.org.uk/events/NKU-argyrotype-printing/

WORKSHOP / Fold your own pinhole camera

Sun 13 October 2024, 10:30 – 17:00

£120 (£105)

Go back to basics with this workshop and learn how to construct your own cardboard camera, then use it to take photos

This class will cover the basics of pinhole photography followed by the magical chemical process of developing black and white prints in a darkroom.

During the course of the day, you’ll make your own 5x4inch camera from cardboard, use direct positive paper to make photographs with the camera outside and then use developing paper in the darkroom to develop your photographs.

To book: https://www.dca.org.uk/events/oq4-create-your-own-pinhole-camera/

WORKSHOP / Fold your own pinhole camera

29 October 2023

Go back to basics workshop with artist Kit Martin, where you will construct your own cardboard camera then take photographs with it! Learn the basics of pinhole photography followed by the magical chemical process of developing black and white prints in a darkroom.

Fold your own pinhole camera, from black card and a bit of a drinks can, then take some magical photographs with it outside (dress appropriately). Develop them in the Print Studio darkroom. All materials provided. No experience required.

There will be other pinhole cameras available on the day for you to experiment with too.

10:30 – 17:30
£95 (£75)

Print Studio at Dundee Contemporary Arts

For all information and to book:

https://www.dca.org.uk/whats-on/event/fold-your-own-pinhole-camera

WORKSHOP / Seeing grains differently: Cyanotype workshop

Date Saturday 23rd September 2023
Time 10.30 – 13.00
Location Bowhouse, St Monans, Fife, KY10 2DB

Join Kit Martin for a cyanotype workshop focusing on the beautifully diverse grains grown by Scotland The Bread in the East Neuk of Fife.

The traditional cyanotype photographic technique uses Scottish sunlight to achieve the deepest of blues and create soft, atmospheric photographic images, but without a camera. This workshop will provide an introduction to the process and the opportunity to coat your own paper before making some prints. The number of prints you will make will depend on the strength of the UV light that day.

While making the prints you will have the chance to learn more about Scotland The Bread’s special grains and the ‘People’s Plant Breeding’ process. We will also have some goodies made using these grains available for you to try.

FOR MORE INFO AND TO BOOK: https://scotlandthebread.org/product/seeing-grains-differently-cyanotype-workshop/

WORKSHOP / Cyanotype (various sessions through the day)

23 July 2023

Part of Space to Breathe / NATURE, PROCESS, ART & IMAGE

Harry CORY WRIGHT
Susan DERGES
Andy GOLDSWORTHY
Alexander LINDSAY

Held at BOWHOUSE in The East Neuk of Fife

15 JULY – 6 AUGUST 2023

https://www.spacetobreatheexpo.com/paststbexhibitions

WORKSHOP / Cyanotype workshops for up to 4 people in St Monans, Fife

MAY-OCTOBER 2022

If a small group of friends / family would like to try (or continue experimenting with) Cyanotype in beautiful St Monans, I have use of a cottage near the harbour and am offering one-day workshops on weekdays (date to be arranged once you have contacted for more info) during May-October.

Contact me for more details if you are interested.

WORKSHOP / ONE-DAY CYANOTYPE WORKSHOP – DEVELOPING IDEAS

25 August 2022

10:00-4:00; Off The Rails Arthouse, Ladybank

This workshop is suitable for those who have worked with cyanotype before.

It will provide you with an opportunity to experiment with printing onto paper and fabric. The number of prints you will make will depend in part on the strength of the sun!

Before attending the workshop, you will reflect on any Cyanotype work you have done think about what designs you would like to focus on during the day.

Option 1 is to make a concertina book. You will print fabric covers and the pages of the book, being given full instructions on pulling all this together.

Option 2 is to work on a final cyanotype piece whether that be on paper or fabric, bringing together your ideas and successes from Previous work. There will also be an opportunity to experiment with toning prints in coffee, tea and other toners.

The workshop is suitable for painters, photographers, textile designers, teachers and anyone else who might be interested in this fascinating, versatile process.

All materials will be provided, but you might want to bring some items to make prints with. e.g. plants, feathers, lace or other items that can be squashed under glass (Kit will bring a selection of things for all to use too).

Also photographic negatives, printed onto acetate or tracing paper (A5 or smaller) are ideal. An apron is recommended. You will be working outdoors for some of the time.

Cost £58, including materials, tea and coffee.

To book a place on this course with Eventbrite.

WORKSHOP / Cyanotype / Dundee at DCA

14 May 2022 11:00-5:00

Dundee Contemporary Arts

Join Kit Martin and explore this beautiful, traditional photographic technique, which is once again becoming a popular method of image creation with a new generation of artists. Using the latest UV light equipment and (potentially) Scottish sunlight to achieve the deepest of blues and create soft, atmospheric photographic images. Only 6 places due to covid restrictions and minimal darkroom access.
All info and to book: https://www.dca.org.uk/whats-on/event/cyanotype-on-paper

WORKSHOP / CYANOTYPE – A DAY OF EXPERIMENTATION

12 May 2022

9:30 AM 4:00 PM

Off the Rails Arthouse

Following a successful weekend of workshops in 2021, we are delighted to welcome back Kit Martin for another day of cyanotype. This is a full day workshop suitable for beginners and those who have worked with cyanotype before. It will introduce you to the cyanotype process and provide an opportunity to experiment with printing onto paper and fabric. For the more experienced, you will be able to experiment with toning prints (paper or fabric). Bring a couple of cyanotype prints with you if you like.

Although the emphasis for the day is on paper, you will have the chance to coat some fabric too. This will be a day of experimentation: once you have learnt the basics of mixing chemicals and coating things with them, you will be able to work at your own pace. There will be examples and books for ideas. The number of prints you will make will depend in part on the strength of the sun!

It is suitable for painters, photographers, textile designers, teachers and anyone else who might be interested in this fascinating, versatile process. No experience is necessary. All materials will be provided, but you might want to bring some items to make prints with. e.g. plants, feathers, lace or other items that can be squashed under glass (Kit will bring a selection of things for all to use too). Also photographic negatives, printed onto acetate or tracing paper (A5 or smaller) are ideal. An apron is recommended. You will be working outdoors for some of the time.

To book a place with Eventbrite.

OPEN STUDIO / Open Studios North Fife

Sat 30 April – Monday, May 2, 2022 10-5:00

I would love to see you at my home studio at some point over the 3 days if you are in the Newport area (or fancy a trip over). I’ll have prints, fabric hangings, cards and hand made books. Hope to see some of you!
https://openstudiosfife.co.uk/artist/160

WORKSHOP / Introduction to Pinhole Photography

24 April 2022, 2-5PM

Off The Rails Arthouse

For teenagers and adults living in and around Ladybank, Fife:

In this back to basics workshop you will experiment with pinhole cameras made from whisky tubes, tins and card, to celebrate World Pinhole Day!
We all spend so much time staring at screens and consuming digital images that it’s good to slow right down. We will learn about the basics of pinhole photography followed by the magical chemical process of developing black and white prints in a darkroom.

No experience is necessary. All materials provided, but if you have a pinhole camera at home, bring it along! We will be working outdoors for some of the time.

All info and to book: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introduction-to-pinhole-photography-with-kit-martin-tickets-301367045947

The Village Creative workshops are funded by the University of St Andrews Community Fund and organised by Heids and Herts Scotland.

MARKET / Bowhouse Market with Tea Green

Bowhouse Market, St Monans

Sunday 14 November, 10-4

I’ll have a table at this food and art market. Come and say hello. The food will be good too and the tiny strong hot chocolate shots from Pittenweem Chocolate Co. are amazing!
For more info about Bowhouse and how to get there:
https://www.bowhousefife.com

And more about Tea Green

https://www.teagreen.co.uk

WORKSHOP / Pinhole Photography Workshop

Corn Exchange / Cupar Arts / University of Dundee

Sat 30 October

Pinhole Photography Workshop 11-3, £42

Exhibition of Cyanotypes and fabric wall hangings (all day)

Corn Exchange, Cupar
I am joining in with a celebration of the work of little-known science fiction writer Robert Duncan Milne, including photography exhibition, workshop and film screening.
He is thought to have been the world’s first full-time science fiction writer. He was friends with Robert Louis Stevenson. His stories contained inventions and ideas that would become reality but not for another 100 years or more. And he was born in Cupar.

For more info and to book Pinhole Workshop:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pinhole-photography-workshop-tickets-176229365777?utm_campaign=post_publish&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eventbrite&utm_content=shortLinkNewEmail

OPEN STUDIO / Open Studios North Fife 2021

Sat Oct 23-Sun 24 2021; 10-5

I would love to see you at my home studio at some point over the weekend if you are in the Newport area (or fancy a trip over). The kettle will be on and I’ll have prints, fabric hangings, cards and hand made books. Hope to see some of you!

For more info and to see who else is opening their studios in the north of Fife:
https://openstudiosfife.co.uk/artist/160

WORKSHOP / Cyanotype Workshop, DCA

Dundee Contemporary Arts

Sun 3 October 2021, 11:00 – 17:00, £45 (£35)

For more info and to book:
https://www.dca.org.uk/whats-on/workshops?from=2021-10-1&to=2021-11-1

WORKSHOP / Cyanotype on fabric and paper

Date: 08 August 2021, 9:30-4:30

Off the Rails Arthouse

NEW DATE ADDED!!

A second one day workshop introducing you to the cyanotype process. It provides an opportunity to experiment with printing onto fabric and paper.

Date: 07 August 2021, 9:30-4.30

One day workshop introducing you to the cyanotype process.

It provides an opportunity to experiment with printing onto fabric and paper.

About this event **SOLD OUT **

This is a full day workshop introducing you to the cyanotype process and provides an opportunity to experiment with printing onto fabric and paper. It is suitable for textile designers, painters, photographers and anyone else who might be interested in this fascinating, versatile process. Beginners are welcome, but you will also benefit if you are looking for a refresher in this fascinating process.

Although the emphasis for the day is on fabric, you will, once you have coated some fabric with cyanotype chemicals, make prints on paper too. This will be a day of experimentation: once you have learnt the basics of mixing chemicals and coating things with them, you will be able to work at your own pace. There will be examples and books for ideas. The number of prints you will make will depend in part on the strength of the sun!

No experience is necessary. All materials will be provided, but you might want to bring bits of fabric (natural only and washed), and/or some items to make prints with. e.g. plants, feathers, lace or other items that can be squashed under glass. An apron is recommended, to avoid blue stains from the chemicals. You will be working outdoors for some of the time.

WORKSHOP / Cyanotype workshop

Honeypot Creative Cafe

Wednesday 9th June, 10-2 (including a break for lunch)

Cyanotype on fabric for beginners

We are really excited to be welcoming Kit Martin to our studio to lead this workshop. You will be learning how to print on to paper and material creating gorgeous patterns using the power of the sun (natural UV light)!

Your final print will be on to material which will be attached to an 8″ embroidery hoop to take home ready to hang on your wall.

All materials are provided but if you want to bring things to make your prints with please do. e.g. plants, feathers, lace, stencils, negatives (bear in mind the hoop is 8 inches diameter). I will bring some too. It would be helpful if you can bring some clothes pegs!

N.B exposure time depends on uv intensity.

£40 per person (all materials and lunch provided)

Book at Honeypot’s website

WORKSHOP / Online Cyanotype Workshop

May 8 & May 9, 2021 10-12

In this 4 hour workshop over 2 days, you will learn to make cameraless photographs using this historical photographic process.

About this Event

You will learn to make cameraless photographs using this non-toxic historical process that originated in 1842 and produces permanent blue and white images.

This will be a relaxed workshop suitable for adults and teenagers. We will be starting indoors then moving outside when each print is ready to expose, to put it in the sun (it will also work on a cloudy day), then back inside again. So you will be away from Zoom for some of the time.

Part 1 of the workshop will be on Saturday from 10-12 when we will be chatting about the process, learning about it’s origins and other interesting things, then coating paper. You will make a print using a sheet of paper that I send already coated.

Part 2 will be on Sunday from 10-12, when we will be making prints with the paper coated the previous day. There will be plenty opportunity for feedback, questions and tips due to the small class size.

Don’t worry if it is an overcast day – we can still get results, but it will just take a bit longer.

£35.

I will post a kit to you a few days before the workshop.

The kit contains:

Cyanotype chemicals;

one bottle of potassium ferricyanide

one bottle of ammonium ferric citrate

A foam brush

A4 glass clip frame

Paper – 8 sheets to fit in A4 frame

Coated paper – 1 sheet to fit in A4 frame

Latex gloves

You will need:

Indoor space that you can make fairly dark, or at least with no sunlight streaming in (i.e. close currtains/blinds, while coating the paper). This space will need good wifi or data and you will need to access Zoom to follow along with me.

A dish to hold your chemicals (ideally not for food – a recycled plastic tub or old plastic bowl. Not metal).

Access to outdoor space to take each print outdoors for exposure to uv light. A windowsill will do, if you feel that it is safe to have your frame there without the risk of it falling!

Access to cold water and ideally a tray that is at least A4 size and at least 2 inches deep. If no tray, a sink or bath will do.

A washing line/clothes drier and pegs (indoors) or blotting paper or cardboard, for hanging or laying prints out to dry.

Some flat objects. These can be anything from leaves, plants (dried or fresh but not wet) feathers, lace, netting, a protractor, drawing / writing on acetate, a photographic negative printed out onto acetate (smaller than A4; ask me if you want more info on this), stencils…

(It is possible to work with 3D objects, but shadows will become a part of the image and if it’s a windy day, these could move in the wind as they won’t be clipped under the glass frame).

Optional:

A brush (N.B. it may get stained) and/or j-cloth for applying chemicals.

TO BOOK: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-cyanotype-workshop-tickets-151216726299?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch

OPEN STUDIO / Open Studios North Fife

Friday 8 – Sunday 10 May, 2020; 10am-6pm

Kit Martin’s Studio

I’m taking part in this along with about 78 other artists in NE Fife. Please come and see me in my home studio in Newport-on-Tay.

http://openstudiosfife.co.uk/artist/160

WORKSHOP / for World Pinhole Photography Day – Fold your own camera

26 April 2020, 11-4

Dundee Contemporary Arts

This is a back to basics workshop where you will construct your own cardboard camera then take photographs with it. Learn the basics of pinhole photography followed by the magical chemical process of developing black-and-white prints in a darkroom. No experience necessary. All materials provided. We will be working inside and outside, so be sure to dress warmly. And it’s on World Pinhole Day!

For more information and to book (£45 / £35):

https://www.dca.org.uk/whats-on/event/fold-your-own-pinhole-camera

WORKSHOP / Bookbinding and Cyanotype

28 March 2020; 10.30-4:30

Forgan Arts Centre

To book (£70+booking fee):

In this collaborative workshop, photographer Kit Martin (www.kitmartinphoto.co.uk) and Bookbinder Cass Barron (https://www.facebook.com/BookbindingwithCass), will introduce the cyanotype process and guide you in creating a range of prints onto paper and fabric, before binding a selection into a number of unique and usable books.

Cyanotype is a cameraless photographic technique that produces a vibrant blue and white image when exposed to uv light. Kit will share her extensive knowledge of cyanotype from the basics of mixing the chemicals and coating the solution, to preparing fabric and paper for printing. There will be examples to give an idea of how things turn out and plenty of materials for you to use to create your prints.

It is worth noting that the time it takes to develop the cyanotypes will depend on the strength of the sun, but we will have a UV light box to hand just in case!

Cass will then take you through the process of transforming some of your paper prints into an artistic accordion fold matchbox book. You will also create a hand-bound hardback sketchbook, using your cyanotype fabric to cover the book boards, before adding a leather spine and decorative stitch.

You will leave this workshop with a working understanding of the cyanotype process, two finished books and a selection of prints that can be used on other projects.

All materials will be provided, but you might want to bring some items to make prints with e.g. plants, feathers, lace (flat things that can be squashed under glass). If you would like to bring a negative to use, please contact Kit
beforehand for advice about printing and size (hello@kitmartinphoto.co.uk). An apron is also recommended, to avoid blue stains from the chemicals.

There is a free to use carpark at Forgan Arts Centre and the venue is 5 minutes walk from the 99 bus stop, just by Forgan Roundabout.

Beginners are welcome and if you have any questions prior to the class, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

MARKET / Stills Photo Market

Sat 7-Sun 8 Mar 2020; 10-5

Stills Gallery

I have a table in the main Gallery at this weekend of photography with the chance to buy direct from an array of photographers.

WORKSHOP / Cyanotype Fabric Printing

29 February 2020, 11-5

Dundee Contemporary Arts

Kit Martin will lead this experimental class where you’ll learn how to coat fabrics and use the UV exposure unit to transfer images onto them. All materials will be provided but you might want to bring bits of fabric and/or some items to make prints with.

To find out more and to book (£45 / £35):

https://www.dca.org.uk/whats-on/event/cyanotype-fabric-printing

MARKET / Tea Green Art, Design & Contemporary Craft Market

9-10 November, 2019; 10-5

Bowhouse, St Monans, Fife

This November the 9th and 10th Tea Green are excited to return to Bowhouse with a brilliant line up of Scottish independent craft traders, the perfect chance to start you Christmas shopping! The Bowhouse Market hall will be filled with over 40 food and drink traders from cheese to gin, chocolate to venison we are sure you will not be leaving empty handed.

Seasonal game meat is the Bowhouse November market theme. In addition to our wonderful exhibitors, Bowhouse will be running workshops and cooking demonstrations looking into different ways to enjoy Scottish game meats across this weekend.

WORKSHOP / Drawing with Light

11 October 2019; 3-4

Bell Pettigrew Museum

Flick on a flashlight and discover the delights of ‘drawing with light’ at this experimental photography session at MUSA. We will provide glow sticks, torches and a photographer to capture your creations, but please feel free to bring any of your own equipment. A perfect pre-fireworks activity! (ages 7 – 12 years)

Free, Booking essential; museumlearning@st-andrews.ac.uk/01334 461663.

WORKSHOP / Shadow Play

11 October 2019; 1-3

Bell Pettigrew Museum

How can you make fascinating moving pictures with light and shadows? Discover what a shadow is, then play with light and an array of weird and wonderful objects to create amazing shadow artworks that twist, turn and transform. Photographer Kit Martin will be on hand to guide you. (ages 3-6 years)

Free, Booking essential; museumlearning@st-andrews.ac.uk/01334 461663.

WORKSHOP / Cyanotypes

07 October 2019; 12-1.30 and 2-3:30

Finmill Community Centre

Get creative and join Kit Martin in making your very own cyanotype prints, and discover more about this photographic printing process, which has been used to create blueprints.

Booking is essential, FREE event.

Please book through Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/connect-creative-workshop-cyanotypes-tickets-71497718601

WORKSHOP / Cyanotype & Bookbinding

05 October 2019; 10:30-4:30

Forgan Arts Centre

In this collaborative workshop, photographer Kit Martin and Bookbinder Cass Barron (https://www.facebook.com/BookbindingwithCass), will introduce the cyanotype process and guide you in creating a range of prints onto paper and fabric, before binding a selection into a number of unique and usable books.

EVENTBRITE TO BOOK

WORKSHOP / Cyanotype on fabric

24 August 2019; 9:30-4

Off The Rails Arthouse

Following last year’s very successful workshop, we are delighted to welcome back Kit Martin for another day of cyanotype. This is a full day workshop introducing you to the cyanotype process and provides an opportunity to experiment with printing onto fabric and paper. It is suitable for textile designers, painters, photographers and anyone else who might be interested in this fascinating, versatile process. Beginners are welcome, but you will also benefit if you are looking for a refresher in this fascinating process.

With a degree in Biological Imaging and a background in medical and forensic photography, Kit Martin is interested in where art and science crossover and the beauty and fragility of the natural world. She is currently working with historical photographic processes, primarily cyanotype, argyrotype, lumens, photograms and pinhole, as well as digital photography.

She enjoys working with Museum collections and has collaborated with Bell Pettigrew Museum and MUSA in St Andrews, the Scottish Fisheries Museum and Dundee Heritage Trust Museums. She is a member of Dundee Print Studio and PrintRoom Dundee. See examples of her lovely work here.

Cost £50, including some materials.

To book, visit Eventbrite

WORKSHOP / Introduction to Pinhole Photography

18 August 2019; 10-5

Lauriston Castle

To celebrate World Photography Day (19 August), join us for a special workshop exploring pinhole cameras. Back to basics workshop where you will experiment with pinhole cameras made from whisky tubes and card. We all spend so much time staring at screens and consuming digital images, for this workshop we will be slowing right down. We will learn about the basics of pinhole photography followed by the magical chemical process of developing black and white prints in a darkroom. No experience is necessary. All materials provided, but if you have a cardboard whisky tube box with lid, bring it! We will be working outdoors for some of the time. With artist Kit Martin.

2 sessions: £9 per person; 10am – 12.30pm AND 1.30pm – 4pm

To book: Eventbrite

WORKSHOP / Open Farm Sunday

09 June 2019, 11-4

Make a photograph without a camera!

I’ll be in one of the portacabins beside the Living Field, offering drop-in cyanotype printing.

FREE; All materials provided.

WORKSHOP / Cyanotype Fabric Printing

01 June 2019, 11-5

Dundee Contemporary Arts

£45 (£35)
Print Studio
To book: Sorry, SOLD OUT.

WORKSHOP / Cyanotype & Bookbinding

12 May 2019, 10:30-4:30

Granton:hub, Madelvic House

In this collaborative workshop, Artist Kit Martin and Bookbinder Cass Barron, will introduce the cyanotype process and guide you in creating a range of prints onto paper and fabric, before binding a selection into a number of unique and usable books.

There will also be the opportunity to forage botanical specimins from the wild garden at Granton:hub to use in your prints. It is worth noting that the time it takes to develop the cyanotypes will depend on the strength of the sun, but we will have a UV light box to hand just in case!

Cass will then take you through the process of transforming some of your paper prints into an artistic accordion fold matchbox book. You will also create a hand-bound hardback sketchbook, using your cyanotype fabric to cover the book boards, before adding a leather spine and decorative stitch.

You will leave this workshop with a working understanding of the cyanotype process, two finished books and a selection of prints that can be used on other projects.

All materials will be provided, but you might want to bring some items to make prints with e.g. plants, feathers, lace (flat things that can be squashed under glass). If you would like to bring a negative to use, please contact Kit
beforehand for advice about printing and size (hello@kitmartinphoto.co.uk). An apron is also recommended, to avoid blue stains from the chemicals.

by Bookbinding with Cass / Kit Martin

£73.95 To book a place: Eventbrite

ARTIST TALK / FRAY

11 May 2019, 3-4

Verdant Works, Dundee

I’ll be talking about my exhibition in the Red Box in Dundee’s Jute Museum

WORKSHOP / Cyanotype / FRAY

11 May 2019, 11-1

Verdant Works, Dundee

An artist-led workshop by Kit Martin in conjunction with FRAY, the current exhibition at Verdant Works.

At this 2 hour workshop you will create amazing prussian blue images as you are introduced to the historical cyanotype process and print onto different types of paper, including paper made with jute.

All materials provided, but if you want to, bring some flat items to print with (wildflowers, negatives, feathers..).

We will be working inside and outside so please dress appropriately. Verdant Works can get a wee bit chilly so think layers!
Age 14+; £10

BOOK HERE: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fray-cyanotype-workshop-tickets-59837587836?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

For further information: audiences@dundeeheritage.co.uk 01382 309065

EXHIBITION / FRAY

Apr 6-Jun 30 2019

Verdant Works, Dundee

With a background in medical and police photography, Kit Martin takes a forensic look at pollinators and wildflowers using digital and historical photographic processes. This exhibition looks closely with admiration at some of our essential yet diminishing pollinators and the wildflowers on which they feed and by chance, pollinate. Most of the specimens involved are from museum natural history collections.

Printing on fabric and paper, and making use of jute and linen, it includes hand printed cyanotype on textiles, digitally printed textiles, digital photographs on paper and lightbox and hand printed cyanotypes on jute paper.

‘If we and the rest of the back-boned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if the invertebrates were to disappear, the world’s ecosystems would collapse.’ Sir David Attenborough

Thanks to;

National Museum of Scotland Collections Unit

Bell Pettigrew Museum

University of Dundee Museums

EXHIBITION / Everything I Ever Learnt – Shutterhub group exhibition

28 March-May 3 2019

University of Cambridge

Almost 100 photographers have come together to show the world through their eyes in this Shutter Hub and Art at the ARB exhibition at the University of Cambridge.

That image reminds me of something. It ignites a small flame that lights my way through the filing system of my mind. It brings me eventually to the hint of a memory, and that memory guides my interpretation of the image, influences my reaction, connects my thoughts and feelings, and threads them together, binding them into a new collection, to be drawn upon the next time something familiar arises.

Everything I have seen, felt, remembered, everything, influences and informs every thought I will ever have.

Art at the ARB, University of Cambridge, Alison Richard Building,
7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT

WORKSHOP / Cyanotype on fabric

15 June 2018, 10:30-5:30

Lauriston Castle, Edinburgh

To celebrate National Nature Photography Day today join us for an introduction to the cyanotype process. This will be a day of experimentation; once you have learnt the basics of mixing chemicals and coating fabric & paper, you will be able to work at your own pace. The number of prints we will make will depend in part on the strength of the sun! No experience is necessary. All materials provided, but you might want to bring some natural fabrics and/or some items to make prints with e.g. plants, feathers, lace (flat things that can be squashed under glass). An apron is recommended, to avoid blue stains from the chemicals. We will be working outdoors for some of the time. With artist Kit Martin. We provide tea/coffee and cake in our adult workshops. Please bring a packed lunch.

£30

To book…https://www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/cyanotypes-fabrics-and-paper

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