BOTANICAL PRINTMAKING & MIXED MEDIA

Nature, held in fragments, printed by hand

I'm Francisca Nunes. I print with leaves, dye with petals, and build layered work from what the season gives me. This is where I teach it, from my studio in Portugal.

Enter the Creative Lab

Start with a 4-Day Taster

Print
Learn printmaking using nature. Ecoprinting and monoprinting

Transform
Layer, cut, combine, build texture

Create
Turn your papers and fabrics into journals and artwork

Where to go from here

One space to keep creating all year with me or my guest artists. One festival, once a year, to meet new artists and new techniques.

Your Creative Home

Wild Creative Lab

Seasonal projects, ongoing Cycles throughout the year, a monthly project with Francisca Nunes or a guest artist, and a community of Wildlings creating alongside you. This is where the work keeps going.

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Once a Year

Flowers Magic Art Fest

Our 2026 edition, Roots & Wings, has closed for the year. See this year's edition, and every past edition, inside.

See This Year's Fest

“ You have re-ignited the joy of creating with nature in me. My mind is going crazy. I just want to start.”

— @janhopper3332

“ Your instruction made it feel possible again. ”

— @maryannscheblein-dawson9202

MEET FRANCISCA NUNES

Francisca Nunes is a Portuguese mixed media artist and educator specializing in botanical printmaking on paper and fabric

Her work explores layered processes using monoprinting, eco-printing and eco-dyeing, with a focus on building depth, coherence and visual language.

She is the creator of Printed Nature, the founder of Into the Wild – Creative Lab, and the host of the internationally recognized Flowers Magic Art Fest.

From her studio in Portugal, she guides artists around the world to move beyond isolated techniques and develop meaningful, structured creative practice rooted in nature.

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A behind-the-scenes look at botanical printmaking, process and seasonal creativity

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Notes on botanical printing, creative structure, seasonal cycles and the evolution of my work.

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