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Introduction to Pulp Painting is a basic workshop for beginners in a unique papermaking technique. Pulp painting uses finely beaten pigmented pulp to “paint” on a freshly pulled sheet of paper before the pulp sheets are pressed and dried into paper.
Participants will first learn how to make a sheet of paper using the pour mould method and then how to work with pulp paints to create interesting textures, shapes, and images. Participants will leave with handmade papers with their own unique works of art and design.
Saturday, November 14th 2026
1 day class, 5 hours, 11am - 4pm
Instructor: Flora Shum
Price includes all materials.
Level: Beginner, no experience required.
This is a masks optional class.
Artist-Instructor Bio
Flora Shum is a Hong Kong born-Tkaronto/Toronto based artist, educator, and cultural worker. Her artistic practice is experimental and collaborative by nature, with roots in papermaking, printmaking, and book arts, extending to found objects, sculpture, video, and installation. Her art utilizes these mediums to explore alternative histories and archives, alchemy, multiples and multiplicity, and slow labour.
She co-directs Paperhouse Studio (c.2013), where she carries forward the vision for paper as a medium, and leads arts-based programming for underserved communities. She is the Artistic Director of CARFAC Ontario, the association of visual and media artists in Ontario, and sits on the Toronto Arts Council’s Creative Communities Committee.
Flora has facilitation experience at OCAD University, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto Public Library, University of Toronto, Central Technical School (Toronto, ON.), Peter Pitseolak School (Kinngait, NU.) and Attagoyuk Ilisavik (Pangnirtung, NU.). She has exhibited locally and internationally, including Toronto (ON), Whistler (BC), Hong Kong, and New York (NY).
