Print a Garden

Join us for a playful, calming day of botanical printing.

Discover the art of botanical printing in this calming, creative one-day workshop, where you will be introduced to making an impression using plants, paint and gelli plates to print a garden!

Absolutely no experience necessary – just an interest in printmaking and an apron!

Join tutor Su and learn responsible foraging techniques, how to select suitable botanicals, and how to create unique plant prints using a gelli plate. You’ll discover the qualities of different paints and how to finish your very own mounted collage/collection of prints to take home.

We’ll let the plant’s shapes, textures and your preferred colours inspire your creativity, as you design a unique series of prints.

Tutor Su France, a new member of our tutor team, is a rural-based printmaker and earth pigment textile artist whose work connects with the arable farm landscape around her. Drawing inspiration from fields, ceramic traditions and kintsugi philosophy, she creates thoughtful pieces that celebrate imperfection in life and nature. Working with locally sourced earth pigments, Su develops rich, muted palettes that capture the essence of place and evoke a sense of tranquillity. Her own process combines printmaking with delicate hand-stitching, using vintage threads to trace agricultural patterns and reference human interactions with the land. Find out more about Su’s practice at https://www.sufrancedesigns.com/

All materials are provided.

Participants must be aged 14+. Under 18s must be accompanied by a paying adult at all times.

This one-day workshop will start at 10am and end at 4.30pm. Our café will be open or you are welcome to bring your own refreshments.

Please ensure that you agree to our updated Terms & Conditions before booking as courses/workshops are non-refundable in some circumstances.

We aim to make all our sessions as accessible as possible and carers/PAs are very welcome – just remember to book their free place when you book your session. If you'd like to talk to us in advance of booking or attending your sessions to discuss your access needs, our Box Office team is here to help! Email arts-centre@le.ac.uk, pop in or call 0116 252 2455, open 7 days a week.

We have four blue badge parking spaces outside Attenborough Arts Centre, plus double yellow line roadside parking very close to the building for blue badge holders for up to three hours if our parking spaces are occupied.

Free parking for all customers is available after 5pm on weekdays and all day at weekends in the University of Leicester car park next door to Attenborough Arts Centre on Lancaster Road.

The closest public car park for parking at all other times is Victoria Park, 5-10 minutes walk from us.