Anthotypes

Anthotype prints are made from the juice of flower petals, fruit peel, and other plant pigments — coated onto a surface as a natural emulsion, then left to the mercy of the sun for days, weeks, sometimes months. Lizzie works with whatever the season offers: berries in summer, flower petals in spring, leaves in autumn, fruit peel in winter — each print holding a small record of the moment it was made.

There's a particular patience this technique demands, waiting on the sun to slowly draw an image out of pigment, never quite knowing what will emerge or how long it will take. And unlike her other work, anthotypes are not meant to endure. Left in daylight too long, they fade back to nothing. For Lizzie, this feels less like a flaw and more like part of the story — proof that not everything of beauty needs to last forever to be worth making.

 

Chlorophyll Prints

Chlorophyll printing is where science and nature meet. Chlorophyll gives plants their green colour and powers photosynthesis; carotenoids sit quietly beneath it, holding the yellows, oranges and reds. Exposed to UV light, a leaf's chlorophyll slowly breaks down, and the colours it had been hiding rise to the surface.

Lizzie finds something quietly magical in this — a leaf revealing a palette it was carrying all along, simply by being left in the sun. It's a technique that rewards watching closely: no two leaves bleach quite the same way, and each print is a small unveiling of a colour that was always there, just waiting to be seen.