Ottilie Marr Cyanotypes

Cyanotypes · Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk

Printed by the sun. Rinsed in rain.

Ottilie Marr lays seaweed, ferns and feathers from the north Norfolk shore on hand-coated paper and lets daylight make the picture. No camera, no ink, no second copy: every print is one of one.

See the new work Commission a print

Strandline, six new prints · open studio Saturdays

Cyanotype of long ribbons of oarweed and a branch of bladderwrack sweeping up the sheet, pale against deep blue, with brushed edges
No. 01 Bladderwrack and Oarweed, Holkham · 2026
Washed and dry: Prussian blue

New work, 2026

Strandline

Six prints from one summer of low tides, hung as they are in the studio: on a 145 cm centre line, at true scale to each other and to you.

  • 01 Bladderwrack and Oarweed, Holkham 64 × 80 cm · £1,150

  • 02 Bracken, Burnham Overy 40 × 60 cm · £520

  • 03 Honesty 50 × 50 cm · Sold

  • 04 Strandline, Holme 120 × 60 cm · £1,400

  • 05 Cow Parsley, May 40 × 50 cm · £460

  • 06 Three Gull Feathers 60 × 40 cm · £480

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Handlist

Strandline: the six prints, their sizes and prices
No.TitleSizePrice
0164 × 80 cm£1,150
0240 × 60 cm£520
0350 × 50 cmSold
04120 × 60 cm£1,400
0540 × 50 cm£460
0660 × 40 cm£480

Cyanotype on 300 gsm cotton rag, signed on the back, unframed. Oak float frames with UV glass from £120.

The process

Four steps, one afternoon of sun.

Three glass printing frames on a weathered garden table in bright sun, seaweed pressed onto pale yellow-green coated paper
  1. i

    Coat

    In a dim room, two iron salts are brushed onto cotton paper and left to dry. The brush marks stay in the finished print.

  2. ii

    Lay

    Weed, fronds and feathers picked up that morning go straight onto the paper, pressed flat under glass.

  3. iii

    Expose

    Five to fifteen minutes in the sun, depending on the light. Where the sun lands the paper darkens; under the weed it stays pale.

  4. iv

    Wash

    A rinse in rainwater clears what the light didn't touch, and the blue arrives. It keeps deepening for a day as it dries.

Hands lifting a freshly washed blue print out of a shallow tray of water, with prints drying on a line by the window

Ways to own one

From the wall, or from your shore.

  • Small cyanotype of two sea holly stems with spiky heads

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    Prints from the wall

    Unique originals, signed and unframed. Collected from the studio or posted flat, insured, anywhere in the UK.

    From £460

  • Small cyanotype of a child's beach finds: shells, a starfish, a feather and sea lavender

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    Your own shore

    Send a box of what you've gathered — garden cuttings, a child's shell collection, the flowers from a wedding — and Ottilie prints it on a sunny day.

    From £450 · about six weeks, weather allowing

  • Small cyanotype of garden cuttings, a dandelion clock and a pair of scissors

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    Sun-printing mornings

    Groups of six in the studio garden, May to September. Coffee, all materials, and three prints of your own to take home.

    £65 a person

What collectors say

It hangs across from the window and changes all day with the light. Guests always ask if it's a photograph.

Hannah R., Norwich · bought Hawthorn, 2025

We sent Ottilie a shoebox of things from my father's garden. What came back made my mother cry, in the good way.

David and Ama K., Leeds · commission, 2025

Visit

Open studio, when the sun is out.

The Net Loft, East Quay, Wells-next-the-Sea. Saturdays, April to October, 10 – 4. On a bright day there'll be printing, and you're welcome to watch a sheet go blue.

Printing light this week Sample forecast

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  • SatFair
  • SunPoor

01328 000 000 · studio@example.com

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Shown beside a person 170 cm tall