In this workshop, students will learn how to combine acrylic painting with the photographic process of cyanotype, popularly known as “sunprints”. We learn how to mix, apply, and store cyanotype chemistry, methods of exposure such as direct exposure photograms with objects and using painted acetate screens, and techniques to paint acrylic layers over and under cyanotype that preserve or subvert the exposed image. We will be looking at artists like Karewith Casas, Julia Whitney Barnes, Tura Oliveira, and others for inspiration. By the end of the workshop, students will have completed at least one fully integrated cyanotype-acrylic painting, created a variety of exciting experimental test pages, and understand how to bring these materials independently into their own studio practice.
Lauryn Welch is a Brooklyn based artist and a longtime resident of the New Hampshire Monadnock Region. She studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design and received her BFA at SUNY Purchase College in 2015, and is an MFA candidate in Studio Art at Hunter College. Through painting and film, she explores the language of care and the experiences of illness and wellness through the construction of home. Her work is influenced by locally accessible nature and ornithology. Lauryn has been gallery manager at the New Hampshire Institute of Art Sharon Arts Gallery and has traveled internationally as a teaching artist for Art Prof, a free online education platform for the visual arts. Her work has been in exhibitions and publications nationally, including Art New England and New American Paintings. Lauryn Welch
