Annalise Neil's Cyanotypes Incorporate Natural Dyes and Mixed Media
Artist Annalise Neil creates surreal cyanotypes augmented with watercolor, natural dyes, and mixed media. She uses botanical teas to shift the blue color and has recently focused on sepian tonality from dyes like wild strawberry leaf, oak gall, loquat leaf, and chestnut. Her process involves hiking, photographing specimens, and transmuting them into negatives and cyanotypes, which are mounted on hand-carved wooden panels. Neil is a resident artist at Volcan Mountain Foundation in Julian, California. Her work is on view in "Fast Forward: Analog Photography as a Third Space" at the Los Angeles Center for Photography and "Sanguine Glimmers" at Hey Books! in San Diego.
Key facts
- Annalise Neil uses natural dyes such as wild strawberry leaf, oak gall, loquat leaf, and chestnut.
- She has been using botanical teas to shift the blue color of cyanotypes.
- The sepian tonality allows her to layer hues like browns and purples.
- Neil is a resident artist at Volcan Mountain Foundation in Julian, California.
- Her work is currently on view in 'Fast Forward: Analog Photography as a Third Space' at the Los Angeles Center for Photography.
- Her work is also on view in 'Sanguine Glimmers' at Hey Books! in San Diego.
- She describes her process as 'melting, rolling, pinching, sanding, walking across meadows, cheek on sun-warmed boulders.'
- Neil's images are supported on hand-carved wooden panels.
Entities
Artists
- Annalise Neil
Institutions
- Volcan Mountain Foundation
- Los Angeles Center for Photography
- Hey Books!
- Colossal
Locations
- Julian
- California
- San Diego