Advanced Cyanotype: Photographic Image with Nina Garstang

Sat May 09 2026 at 10:30 am to 04:30 pm UTC+01:00

Phoenix Art Space | Brighton

Phoenix Art Space
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Advanced Cyanotype: Photographic Image with Nina Garstang
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Learn how to create cyanotype prints using photographic imagery.
About this Event

These one-day advanced cyanotype courses are designed for students who already have some experience with cyanotypes and want to push the process further—technically, conceptually, and materially.

This session focuses on achieving precision, control, and tonal richness when working from photographic imagery.

Students will:

  • Learn how to translate a photographic image into a high-quality transparency negative.
  • Develop crisp, controlled prints through careful exposure and processing.
  • Trial different papers and chemical variations to explore tonal range and surface effects.
  • Spend focused time refining a single image through contact sheets and tonal test exposures.
  • Explore montage techniques using both physical negatives and digital methods in Photoshop.
  • Learn advanced layering strategies, including foreground, mid-ground, and background construction, as well as multiple exposure techniques.
  • Experiment with bleaching and a range of dyeing techniques to extend the visual language of the print.

Materials will be provided, but anyone who knows how to print their own negatives is welcome to bring some. Students can also bring any paper to experiment with.

Find out more about our other one-day advanced cyanotype course: Advanced Cyanotype: Fabric & Alternative Surfaces


Costs: £80

Times: 10.30 - 16.30

Date: Saturday 9 May

Location: White Room

Maximum: 8


Phoenix Art Space is a registered charity.

When you purchase a ticket for one of our courses, you're directly supporting our work. We work hard to keep our prices as low as possible so our courses remain inclusive.

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Nina Garstang studied her BA at University of Brighton & MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in London where she received the Stanley Smith Scholarship. She is an interdisciplinary artist making in various mediums and materials. She makes and teaches one to one cyanotype workshops in her studio in Brighton. Where she paints, photographs the sea and collects ghost netting and plastics washed ashore after storms to make sculptural works. She exhibits nationally and internationally, highlights include ‘London Art’ fair in Chelsea, Scope in Miami and Paradise RCA in Milan. Nina’s solo show in the project space at Phoenix last year called Entangle explored the visceral and metaphorical experience of our relationship with the sea. She has paintings in public and private collections in London and Brighton, 6KB and Alex de Brye amongst others.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Phoenix Art Space, 10-14 Waterloo Place, Brighton, United Kingdom

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