I Am Making Art: Impressions of Nature with Babs Behan

As part of Spike Island’s exhibition, Nour Jaouda: , join a drop-in winter workshop exploring the poetics of materials and memory through printmaking.

Adults and families are invited to create unique botanical prints using traditional wood block techniques on handmade paper. Working with natural inks derived from plants, the workshop embraces a slow, tactile process of making – echoing Jaouda’s own engagement with material transformation and layered storytelling.

Guided step by step, you will learn how to ink, press, and handprint the wood blocks, experimenting with natural pigments to bring botanical forms to life on paper.

Each participant will produce their own set of prints to take home – intimate works that embody time, texture, and place.

You can drop-in any time throughout the session and stay for as long as you wish. The workshop is open to all ages and abilities, and all materials are provided.

I Am Making Art

These regular activity sessions are led by artists and visual practitioners. Visitors of all ages and abilities can try out new techniques and approaches to making art, from drawing and painting to collage, sculpture and animation. All materials are provided.

Babs Behan

Babs Behan is a natural dye artist, author, and founder of Botanical Inks and Bristol Cloth — projects rooted in regenerative textile traditions, sustainability, and the poetic power of plant colour.

Working with foraged and responsibly grown dye plants, Behan creates work that honours the rhythms of the land and has shared her craft widely with leading institutions including the V&A Museum, Hauser & Wirth, Tate, and the Saatchi Gallery.

Behan is the author of two internationally published books on natural dyeing, and her projects have been featured on BBC News, Sky News, Vogue and The Financial Times.

A passionate educator, Behan leads workshops that bring together art, ecology and the quiet joy of making, inspiring participants to connect deeply with materials, process and place.

www.botanicalinks.com

www.instagram.com/botanicalinks

Image courtesy of Babs Behan

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