Creative Health Series: Impressions of Nature (botanical monoprinting)

* This event is for Loughborough University staff and postgraduate students (research and taught) only *

About the workshop

This beginner-friendly printmaking workshop will introduce you to simple monoprinting techniques using printing plates and botanical materials. Through a mix of demonstration and guided practice, you will learn how to create both positive and negative impressions. You will start with black ink to explore form and texture before moving into colour, layering, mixing, and combining hues to create depth and tonal variation.

This session will offer a mindful, creative experience inspired by nature, centred on play and experimentation, with the opportunity to refine prints into a curated outcome such as a concertina booklet, postcard set, or small collection of layered prints.

No prior experience is necessary, and all materials are provided.

About the artist

Amanda Bywater is an illustrator and printmaker, with an MA in Illustration from Nottingham Trent University and a BA in Fine Art from Loughborough University. She combines traditional and digital approaches in her creative practice, often exploring themes of biodiversity, nature, and sustainability in surface pattern designs and detailed prints. With experience as an Art and Design Technician, she brings practical expertise to her workshops, supporting participants to explore printmaking techniques and develop their own creative ideas.

Creative Health Series

This workshop is part of LU Arts’ Creative Health Series for staff and postgraduate students. Curated by Gussi Philippou, this is a year-long journey of six workshops led by artists from different creative backgrounds and culminating in an exhibition, where this workshop is taking place. Over the year, the series has explored how creative practices can boost health and wellbeing through three core themes: Flow Theory, Community and Sustainability.

Accessibility

There is step-free access into the gallery via a ramp and side door, which a member of staff can open for you.

For more information about the venue, including photographs, view the access guide for Martin Hall on AccessAble.

If you have any specific accessibility requirements that you think we should know about, please let us know in advance by emailing LUArts@lboro.ac.uk and we will do our best to accommodate them.

Photography

Photography may be taking place at this event. If you do not give your consent to being photographed and it being used for future publicity purposes by Loughborough University and LU Arts, then please alert the photographer on the day.

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