Making Natural Art Materials
Online and in-person classes on making and working with natural paints, inks, dyes, pigments, and fibres.
2026 Long Online Programmes
Short Online Classes & Talks
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How does your relationship with natural materials influence your creative practice?
Join a global community of artists and practitioners sharing their explorations of working with plant, mineral, and animal based materials - for making natural colour and art materials.
Each Group will gather for 12 monthly sessions. Each session includes a guest artist featuring a natural material they work with, followed by group sharing and discussion.
Develop a comprehensive understanding of how to make natural paints and inks for paper, canvas, wood panels, plaster, and other surfaces.
Each session will cover a different approach to paint and ink making using botanical and earth based colour with natural binders.
Swatching and sampling throughout the course, so you can compare the different recipes side by side.
With Natalie Stopka, Caroline Ross, Greta Facchinato, Carolyn Sweeney, Lucy Mayes, Caroline Nicolay & Elise Wagner
“From believing that we must work with nature, to seeing us as working within nature, to understanding that we are nature working.”
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