Botanical Ink Illustration Workshop

Explore of colours for painting and printing made from plants and minerals at this illustration class in London.



1.5 hours Class size 1 to 12 guests

  £5 - £35 (£5 for Subsidised Community Ticket Public Class; £20 for True Cost Ticket Public Class; £35 for Pay it Forward Ticket Public Class; £35 for Private Class)

Join this botanical ink painting exploration class in South London and develop your skills with coloured ink work inspired by the natural world. This recurring workshop is a great opportunity to use ecologically produced ink in your own creative work.
In this relaxed and friendly activity, you will be guided by natural dye and cyanotype artist and textiles printmaker, Zoe Burt. You will learn about a variety of colours that can be extracted from plants, their history and symbolism. Through observation drawing and curated prompts you will explore traditional ink drawing, experimenting with the unique properties of natural inks and modifiers.
This workshop takes place in the Remakery's new lab space – a perfect setting for this creative process. After attending a session, you can even book the equipment yourself to continue making your own beautiful natural inks.
What you make in the session is up to you, you can bring your own sketchbook for studies, or develop bigger works.
Ticket Types;
The Remakery is committed to making Eco Craft practices available to everyone. We offer a subsidised ticket for most of our classes, particularly aimed at unwaged, under 25 or financially disadvantaged members of our community.
Our ‘True Cost Ticket’ reflects the prep time involved in running a eco-craft course and the cost of keeping a space like the Remakery open.
The ‘Pay it forward’ ticket includes a donation towards the upkeep of our communal rooms and the continuation of our community programme.
Due to the high demand for our Botanical Ink classes, we do not offer any refunds or cancellations on these tickets.

Upcoming dates for Botanical Ink Illustration Workshop

Times are London time. Dates and prices as of 3 Oct 2026, 1:03pm; availability and price are confirmed live when booking on this page.

1 upcoming date between 15 Oct 2026 and 15 Oct 2026.

  • Thu 15 Oct 2026, 6:30pm-8pm
What you'll get
Beautiful Ink calligraphic style paintings or sketchbook pages.
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Knowledge required
Beginner friendly
What to bring
A sketchbook or paper for testing your inks on. An apron and gloves to protect your clothes.
Suitable for

This class is great for individuals and couples as well as for a date idea, birthday or hen do.

This experience would also be a creative gift for her, gift for mum, Xmas gift or gift for couples.

Location

The Remakery - 51 Lilford Road, London

15 minutes from Loughborough Junction overground, 20 minutes from Brixton Tube

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  • 5/5 from Lauren La Tulip, attended Mar 2026: Such a beautiful set up, all materials, inspirations and references set out. The instructor has deep knowledge but shares it gently, connected with everyone and brought a community feeling to the evening. Do not miss, a wonderful hands on intro to using and making botanical inks. So fun!
  • 5/5 from Bronwyn Wolfe, attended Mar 2026: Really interesting introduction botanical inks, Zoe is very knowledgeable and generous with her skills making for an enjoyable experience
  • 5/5 from Sonia Lacombe, attended Feb 2026: Spent a great evening with Zoe and several other keen participants. Zoe is a great facilitator, making everyone at ease, leading to a very pleasant experience. Great introduction to botanical dyes, makes me want to learn more.
  • 5/5 from Margarida Vasconcelos, attended Feb 2026: Fantastic venue, amazing teacher, had a lovely inspiring evening painting with botanical inks. Truly recommend it!
  • 5/5 from Sheila Hearsum, attended Feb 2026: Good teacher and lovely presented using inks in shells. Just a nice way to spend an evening learning about botanical inks, how they work and drawing with them as a group.
  • 3/5 from Robyn Hampson, attended Jan 2026: A nice format to meet others and set aside time to 'play' and experiment. The instructor surely has lots of knowledge and practical knowledge that could more easily be showcased in a longer form class. I did learn a lot about natural inks by simply interacting with them. I will definitely be going back to the Remakery.
  • 5/5 from Marc Cowan, attended Dec 2025: Very friendly and relaxed evening discussing inks and experimenting with different options and techniques with all the materials we needed.
  • 5/5 from Leslie Kinsey, attended Nov 2025: A wonderful experience - thank you! Zoe was brimming with information and enthusiasm. And an excellent teacher…. The other participants were really nice and each seemed to bring very interesting backgrounds with them. A really harmonious group of people. It was also a lovely introduction to Remakery, and I hope to enjoy some of your other courses in the future as well. What you are all doing at The Remakery is so important. Thank you.
  • 5/5 from Jo Cooper, attended Oct 2025: Very informative and creative workshop with a friendly chilled atmosphere. Zoe is a very generous and knowledgeable teacher who is passionate about natural dyes and sustainable creativity.
  • 5/5 from Emma Lucia Reyes, attended Oct 2025: Really informative and passionate teacher! Learnt and put into practice clear instructions. Really enjoyed and went home so happy!
  • 5/5 from Sheila Hearsum, attended Oct 2025: No occasion, Learnt more about Botanical ink making. The teacher was excellent and knowledgable. Venue good and materials were fine. I actually liked that it was quite a small group so I learnt more than the previous time I tried this. Picture is of draining something (Hollyhock dead flower heads)to use as ink.
  • 5/5 from Hayley Whitehorn, attended Oct 2025: Zoe was super lovely and friendly, and shared her knowledge with us, and answered all questions. She even pointed us to resources for further information. She told us how to gather, prepare, and create each dye, and we could paint them onto paper to see how they changed colour as they dried. She also told and showed us how to create acidic and alkaline solutions and what happens when you paint them onto top of the dried dye. Overall I loved the hands-on nature of the workshop, blended with theory. Zoe was excellent.
  • 5/5 from Orsola Ricciardelli, attended Oct 2025: Well structured class, great teacher, warm environment
  • 5/5 from Sarayu Shah, attended Oct 2025: Fabulous. A whole world of colour awaits. I will most definitely book again. Wonderful and patient tutor
  • 5/5 from Janine Nelson, attended Oct 2025: Lovely to explore so many natural colours from plants!
  • 5/5 from Cecily Powell-Tuck, attended Sep 2025: The botanical ink making class was an inspiring intro to making inks from a range of grown and foraged natural materials. A gorgeous new way to relate to the natural world - and fun to see and learn about the amazing plans for the remakery space. Thanks!
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The Remakery
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The Remakery started 10 years ago as a community space for repairing and upcycling furniture.
Since then we have developed several communal workshops for a range of eco-craft activities, and an exciting programme to link climate action with the empowerment of making with your hands.
Our practitioners have trained at London's top Arts schools, or developed their skills over years of self-discovery.
Our programme is curated by Alice Holloway; A researcher in regenerative fashion with The RCA and London Met university, and Innovate Creative Catalyst grant winning regenerative fashion designer.
The skills we share at the Remakery are proven to improve mental health, as well as change how class attendees see the world. We want everyone to feel empowered to make a difference, and we have seen how learning to make something is often in the first step towards changing something bigger.

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