🎭 Culture Jun 11, 2026 · Kate Mothes

Natural Dyes Merge with Mixed Media in Annalise Neil’s Dreamy Cyanotypes

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Natural Dyes Merge with Mixed Media in Annalise Neil’s Dreamy Cyanotypes
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“Matter is memory, and memory is a medium,” says artist Annalise Neil, whose surreal cyanotypes brim with animals, fungi, geological specimens, shells, and more that she augments with watercolor. Recently, the artist has been adding rich, earthy tones with natural dyes such as wild strawberry leaf, oak gall, loquat leaf, and chestnut. She has used botanical teas to shift the natural blue color of the cyanotypes for quite a while, but the sepia tonality has emerged as a larger focus l

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