This workshop is a fantastic opportunity to slow down, connect with your creative side, and learn a new skill. Explore natural dyes, traditions of block printing and emotional memory and how it can connect with pattern.
Join artist and maker Lucy Pick (shortlisted for TOAST new maker 2025) on a peaceful and creative day learning about the wonderful art of block printing where you will play with pattern and designs and then cut your own lino block to decorate a handloom Indian scarf to take home. This is a very informal but informative day from which you will gain an insight into cutting lino blocks and the joy of pattern design.
The session will begin with a discussion on the importance of colour and pattern in our lives, and looking at examples of textiles, photographs, and books for inspiration - ranging from Indian artisans to British craft revival. Feeling inspired you will experiment with your own designs before going on to cut your own block. You will be given plenty of time and encouragement to ask questions and to play with ‘walking your block’ on paper, resulting in multiple pattern variations and repeats before progressing onto your final design.
Madder and Cutch water-based natural dye ink will be used during the day.
You will:
- * Learn how to carve a design in lino mounted on wood
- * Experiment with different printing patterns
- * Print your design onto a handloom Indian scarf
- * Take this home along with your unique block to use again and again
What to bring: Please bring your own lunch (the bar will be open to purchase drinks and light snacks) and wear old clothes or an apron. Manual dexterity is required as you will be using a sharp lino cutter
Tutor: Lucy Pick
Drawing from her 25 years experience as an abstract oil painter, artist Lucy Pick has now developed into block printing with solely natural dyes. Lucy has established a small dye garden in the New Forest, which ensure the provenance of the colours in her work, as everything is grown organically. She uses her experience as a painter to approach fabric with a painter’s eye bringing an appreciation of mark making and the joy of irregularities and imperfections in outcome.
Workshop:
Date: Saturday 20th June 2026
Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm
Workshop Fee: £100.00 / £90.00 concession
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