Salt and Albumen Printing – Ellie Young – 1 Day


  •  May 24, 2025
     9:30 am - 4:30 pm

SALT & ALBUMEN PRINTING: the two processes are closely aliened not only in the history of photography but in the practice of creating these two most beautiful processes. ABOUT THE SALT PRINT: This is a simple process with a number of challenges to master. Salt prints are created by coating paper in a solution of (more…)

New Chrysotype – Ellie Young – 1 Day


  •  May 25, 2025
     9:30 am - 5:30 pm

ABOUT NEW CHRYSOTYPE PRINTING The New Chrysotype process has tonal and surface qualities and permanence like Platinotype-Palladiotype, but the added feature of beautifully muted colours, controlled by the chemistry and physics of the process. The photographic artist should find here a whole new palette of non-literal colour to explore (more…)

Gum Bichromate Printing – Ellie Young – 2 Days


  •  May 31, 2025 - June 1, 2025
     9:30 am - 4:30 pm

ABOUT GUM BICHROMATE Gum Bichromate process allows colour printing from black & white contact negatives in numerous colours. Paper is coated with pigment, dichromate and gum Arabic, registered, exposed to ultraviolet light. Exposure to light hardens the gum Arabic proportionate to the varying density of the negative.The print is then placed in a bath of (more…)

Platinotype – Platinum/Palladium Printing – Ellie Young -1 Day


  •  June 7, 2025
     9:30 am - 4:30 pm

ABOUT PLATINIUM AND PALLADIUM PRINTING: Printing in platinum and palladium is acknowledged as the summit of alternative processes – images formed in totally permanent ‘noble’ metal, exquisitely graduated in tones of neutral grey or warm sepia, with a beguiling luminosity in the high values. This modernized version provides a (more…)

Cyanotype and Vandyke Brown on Fabric – Ellie Young-1 day


  •  June 14, 2025
     9:30 am - 4:30 pm

PRINTING PHOTOGRAPHS ON FABRIC The workshop allows you to create photographs on natural fibres, cotton, linen and silk with a surprising clarity. It provides the following advantages over paper: Movement – especially silks Can be stretched onto a frame Wearable – cyanotype can (more…)

Platinotype, Cyanotype & Gum Bichromate – Ellie Young -2 Days


  •  August 15, 2025 - August 16, 2025
     9:00 am - 5:00 pm

ABOUT PLATINIUM/PALLADIUM PRINTING AND GUM BICHROMATE: Printing in platinum and palladium is acknowledged as the summit of alternative processes – images formed in totally permanent ‘noble’ metal. Gum bichromate printing over palladium or platinum photographs is an effective method of using colour to built depth to enrich shadow areas. The (more…)

Liquid Emulsion Silver Gelatin- Ellie Young – 1 Day


  •  August 24, 2025
     9:30 am - 5:00 pm

ABOUT LIQUID EMULSION This unique photographic printing process allows the artist the flexibility to hand coat silver gelatin emulsion on to a wide selection of surfaces including watercolour papers, timber, metals, fabric and glass. ABOUT THE WORKSHOP The day will cover the following: Preparation of the Liquid Emulsion Surface selection & preparation Coating techniques & applications (more…)

Salt and Albumen Printing – Ellie Young – 1 Day


  •  September 12, 2025
     9:30 am - 4:30 pm

SALT & ALBUMEN PRINTING: the two processes are closely aliened not only in the history of photography but in the practice of creating these two most beautiful processes. ABOUT THE SALT PRINT: This is a simple process with a number of challenges to master. Salt prints are created by coating paper in a solution of (more…)

Carbon Transfer Printing – Ellie Young – 2 Days


  •  September 13, 2025 - September 14, 2025
     9:30 am - 4:30 pm

  ABOUT CARBON PRINTING The carbon printing process uses colour pigments producing one of the the most permanent coloured photographs. The use of pigment allows any colour photograph on almost any surface. The beautiful tonal scale resolves fine detail.  It relies upon the ability of (more…)

Carbon Transfer Four Colour – Ellie Young – 3 Days


  •  September 19, 2025 - September 21, 2025
     9:30 am - 4:30 pm

Four Colour Carbon ABOUT THE CARBON PROCESS The carbon process, initially a black-and-white process using lampblack (carbon black), was invented by Alphonse Poitevin in 1855. The process was later adapted to color, through the use of pigments, by Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron in 1868. Carbon photographs were the (more…)