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Studio Seminars
Pulp Painting invites participants to reimagine paper not as a surface for making art, but as the medium itself. Using vibrant, hand-prepared paper pulp, participants will create original compositions by layering color, texture, and form directly onto moulds and deckles. Whether working intuitively or sketching a design as a guide, participants are encouraged to explore the material's fluidity through experimentation and play.
The workshop also introduces the process of creating naturally pigmented paper pulps using plant-based materials such as turmeric, sumac, and other organic dyes, offering participants the opportunity to investigate color-making alongside image-making. Throughout the session, the artist will demonstrate their distinctive pulp drawing technique, sharing insights into their process while encouraging participants to develop their own approaches.
Designed as an open studio experience, Pulp Painting offers the freedom to produce multiple works while discovering an accessible and tactile printmaking process that welcomes all levels of experience. Through making, participants are invited to consider paper as a sculptural and expressive material, embracing chance, experimentation, and the possibilities that emerge through working by hand.
Accessibility & Participation
Open to ages 18+
Capacity: 12
60 AED
About the Instructor
Maitha Bushelaibi is an emerging Emirati multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores everyday life and the shifting boundaries between the private and public. Working through material-led processes including papermaking, printmaking, sculpture, and mixed media, she treats materials as collaborators that transform, resist, and carry traces of presence. Her work draws from sentiments, nostalgia, local culture, and quiet moments of observation, using making as a way to question how meaning is constructed and understood. Blending traditional approaches with contemporary experimentation, Maitha's practice becomes a process of reflection and exploration, collecting pieces of lived experience in an attempt to make sense of the world around her.