Laurinda is a cyanotype artist working in both traditional and wet processes, as well as other alternative photographic methods such as lumen print. Working from her home studio in rural Wiltshire, UK, she finds inspiration in the English countryside and at the south coast.
Laurinda first discovered alternative photographic processes while studying for a master’s degree in history of art in 1995, and returned to the process in later years as a way of recording and preserving the beauty of her rural surroundings.
Cyanotype was invented in the 1840’s and became popular as a cheaper, camera-less, alternative to traditional photographic techniques. Laurinda follows the same process as the early Victorian pioneers; printing from local botanicals, or handmade negatives, exposing and developing the prints primarily using just sunshine and water.