Eco-Printed Card Making Workshop

Join us in Roundwood to celebrate Samhain with a full-day workshop led by Elida Maiques and Malú Colorín.

This is the third session of the 4-part Roundwood Series: a celebration of the seasons.

Workshop #1: Bealtaine - Printing with Botanical Ink

Workshop #2: Lughnasadh - Berry Harvesting and Chalk Stick Making Workshop

Workshop #3: Samhain - Eco-Printed Card Making Workshop

Workshop #4: Imbolc - Earth Pigment Making Workshop

Click here for more information on the other three workshops

The Roundwood Series #3: Samhain
Eco-Printed Card Making Workshop

The beginning of the celtic year, the underworld is so close. Blackberries, blackcurrant leaves & cuttings.

Workshop Schedule:

11am-12pm: Walk to observe and gather tree leaves for eco printing.

12pm-12.30pm: Conversation & object exhibition. Coming back, assembling objects (lots of berries) on a table with a scroll of paper underneath.

12.30pm-1pm: Lunch break. Participants bring a packed sandwich. Tea, coffee and treats provided.

1pm-2pm: Making prints with tree leaves: paper sandwich with leaves on top, paper on the bottom rolled around a wooden dowel. Wrap with string or twine to keep well-pressed in place, (add iron if needed) and steam for 20 mins. Open and reveal the prints!

2pm-3pm: Cutting printed paper into greeting cards

Elida Maiques

Elida Maiques is a Wicklow-based artist with roots in Ixmulew/Guatemala and Spain. Her work, often collaborative, has been exhibited internationally. The triangle where people, art-making and wildlife meet are her focus.

Wicklow Artist Award in 2025, her long term project I Am a Forest, on interdependence, includes a 9-min film has featured in multiple film festivals and was exhibited in 2024 in Canem Galeria (Spain). Between 2022 and 2024 she was Bray Library’s Seed Librarian (Ireland) and Mermaid Arts Centre (Ireland) Transform Associate Artist. In 2022 she brought her project The Sally Garden to IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art) (Ireland).

She loves drawing and runs the Fridayfest drawing workshop in Mermaid.

Malú Colorín

Malú Colorín is a Mexican natural dyer and designer living in West Wicklow, Ireland. She is the founder of Talú, a natural dye house and educational hub helping slow fashion lovers reconnect to colour and the Land through workshops, events & dye services. She is also the co-founder of Fibreshed Ireland, a community-supported social enterprise building networks to craft a regenerative Irish textile system based on local fibre, local dyes & local labour. Her work draws inspiration from the traditional garments of her native Mexico, while embracing the rich heritage of Irish textiles. By working slowly and mindfully, she aims to build an intimate connection with each of her dye sources, as well as the Land where they grow. Thanks to her background in graphic design, she's an avid systems thinker, constantly dreaming up ways to dismantle the interconnected systems of oppression behind climate change and social injustice.