Wildlife Screen Printing with Molly Pickles
Learn the fundamentals of screen-printing inspired by the Powell-Cotton Museum’s natural history collections.
As part of the Powell-Cotton Trust’s centenary celebrations, we’re inviting our local communities to help connect the museum’s past, present and future via a series of artist-led creative workshops throughout the summer.
From photography and film to screen printing and poetry writing, these sessions offer the chance to respond creatively to what you discover in the museum and its collections. Your work will then form part of a special community exhibition opening in October 2026.
Wildlife Screen Printing Workshop
Led by illustrator and printmaker Molly Pickles
Learn the fundamentals of screen-printing – a vibrant and accessible printmaking technique – inspired by the Powell-Cotton Museum’s natural history collections.
Using your own designs or designs inspired by beetles, insects and wildlife imagery, you’ll create striking printed artworks.
This workshop focuses on the practical skills of screen-printing and image transfer. Open to all ages and experience levels, it’s a hands-on introduction to this exciting creative technique.
You can book this session alone, or combine it with the Small Worlds: Insects, Illustration & Pointillism Workshop (Friday 21 August, 11:30am to 12:30pm) for a full day of creative making.
No experience needed.
Date and time:
Friday 21 August
1:30pm – 3pm (times subject to change)
Workshop included in our standard admission price.
About Molly Pickles
Molly Pickles is a self-taught illustrator and printmaker based on the south east coast of England. Her background in natural history and coastal landscapes shapes her distinctive approach to wildlife illustration and printmaking.
Over nearly a decade of trading at exhibitions and markets, Molly has developed a strong creative practice rooted in observation and experimentation. Her work explores the intersection of nature, pattern and colour – themes that run through all her creative output.
Sustainability and eco-friendly practice are central to Molly’s work. In these workshops, she invites participants to discover the creative possibilities of illustration and printmaking through hands-on, playful making.
Photos by Shannen Lythgoe
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