Learn eco printing and nature weaving with Alice Fox
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Register your interest in this new course, coming in 2026:

Join artist Alice Fox to rediscover what’s possible when you make from where you stand. 

In Mapping Place, Alice Fox invites you into a way of working that begins with noticing what is local to you, whether that’s your garden, your street, your kitchen, or your home, approaching making as a form of alternative mapping.

Rather than focusing on a single technique or outcome, the course unfolds as a progression from 2D mark-making into 3D structure. Working with paper, plants, found objects, cordage, and simple weaving systems, you’ll explore eco printing, botanical contact printing, ink made from local and kitchen materials, rust printing, and stitching into leaves and found matter, before transforming paper, cloth, and plant fibres into woven form.

More details about the full curriculum will be shared soon. In the meantime, we invite you to explore Alice’s artwork below, or watch her Friday Feature Artist conversation for insight into her practice and approach.

Alice Fox - Still vessel with stone and wood

From simple materials to exhibition-worthy work, all from right outside your door. 
Writing on leaves and books, creative goals

Notice
Write your own manifesto – the creative goals that will guide your work as you learn how plants, seasons and found materials hold a record of place. 

Leaf prints, papers, writing, a record of place

Print
Gathered leaves, folded paper and iron water become your first tangible record of place. Rust then adds its own marks – complex, subtle prints from the most basic of materials.

Inks made from plants and kitchen scraps

Colour
Make inks from plants and kitchen scraps, and shift their colour with simple modifiers. Each test card adds to a palette that’s unique to where you live.

Stitching on leaves

Stitch
Learn the leaf-stitching technique Alice has rarely taught, treating leaves as a material in their own right. Stitch them into surfaces and ‘quilts’ that hold the texture and colour of your place.

Plant and cordage for art

Weave
 Strip nettle and other plants for fibre, then twist it into cordage. Weave with it on a homemade pin loom and on a simple frame, incorporating stems and found materials for unique outcomes.

Alice Fox artwork

Present
Learn how Alice takes simple, gathered materials and resolves them into exhibition-worthy pieces. She shares how she finishes, groups and presents her work, so you can do the same with yours.

Alice Fox - artist

My interest in landscape and sustainability underpins the way I work as an artist, always striving to make my practice as sustainable as possible. This drives me to use materials, found objects and natural colour that I gather wherever I am working.

 - ALICE FOX

 

Alice Fox is a West Yorkshire–based artist whose practice is rooted in sustainability and a deep attentiveness to place. With a background in nature conservation, she works almost entirely with locally sourced and home-grown materials; flax, nettle, daffodil leaves, blackthorn, sycamore keys, even mud - transforming “humble” matter into evocative records of the landscapes she knows and loves.

Her allotment is central to her process, providing fibres, colour and countless seasonal cues; her techniques span stitch, basketry, improvised looms, cordage and botanical inks. Alice teaches generously and practically, helping students work with what they have, where they are - no fancy kit required.

Teaching online lets her gather a global table of makers, each discovering new ways to see, collect and create from their own surroundings. We are honoured to collaborate Alice and bring you her first Take Two signature online course.

Your Take Two experience includes:
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Direct interaction with Alice for up to eight weeks.

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Hours of cinematic video lessons.

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Unlimited learning with lifetime access.

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A worldwide community of artists.

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Have your questions answered in two live Q&As.

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Comprehensive workbooks to reinforce your learning.

… plus the community and resources to keep the conversation flowing long after the course ends.

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