Sian Hughes is a Liverpool based artist who explores cyanotypes and its potential through layering, text, photography, fabric and bookmaking. Sian runs wide range of workshops to enthuse other people to this vibrant camera-less photographic medium.
Sian spent four weeks in the Radiology Department of the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, using x-rays of personal items to create intricate layered designs which were then displayed in the department.
“The process is straightforward but very quickly lends itself to creative development. It is an absorbing process with an immediate impact and outcome that creates confidence in people who feel they have no artistic skills.”
The process is often referred to as ‘camera-less photography’. John Herschel invented it in 1842 and its first practical use was by Anna Atkins in 1845 who used it to record botanical specimens.”
– Sian Hughes
