Natural Colour Making
For Artists
Online Year Course
Study Groups
As part of the Natural Colour Making For Artists year long online course, there is an option to join a monthly study group. This is an optional extra for those who wish for to connect with fellow colour makers throughout the year.
This is a small informal peer group of 12 people with a facilitator. Meeting up to share explorations, ideas, and questions.
This consists of a monthly two hour Zoom call. Supported by ongoing conversation and photo sharing on a what’s app group. The monthly two hour zoom call is an informal open space for emergent discussion and conversation. Members are invited to share questions with the group, explorations, and artwork in process or completed.
Connection with a global community of plant dye, ink, & paint making enthusiasts.
An opportunity to share your work and insights.
To get feedback around your creative explorations.
To hear about what others are exploring, and be inspired by this.
Live Session: The value of these sessions is the emergent conversations and insights that come from them. The sessions will not be recorded.
Commitment: The intention is that this is an ongoing group where we can build relationships and support each other through the year as we develop our creative practice throughout the course. To join the group, you are required to commit to the year.
Join A Study Group
In response to popular demand, we have created another study group at a different time for those who were unable to attend a study group as part of the Natural Colour Making For Artists Online Year Course due to the timing. This group is facilitated Plants & Colour facilitator Isobel Denton.
Study Group Facilitated By Isobel Denton
Join a small study online group of 12 members of the Natural Colour Making For Artists Online Year Course, meeting up monthly online to share explorations, ideas, and questions.
12 online meet-ups on the first Tuesday of each month Timing: 9.30am - 11.30am GMT
2024: 5th November, 3rd December,
2025: 7th January, 4th February, 4th March, 1st April, 6th May, 3rd June, 1st July, 5th August, 2nd September, 7th October
These sessions are not recorded, so you will need to be able to attend live.
ALREADY A YEAR COURSE MEMBER? You can join the study group via this link.
NOT YET A YEAR COURSE MEMBER? Join the year course + the study group on this page.
1. Year Course Recording Only Membership - The live classes are fully booked, so you will receive access to all the class recordings throughout the year. 2. Membership of a small online study group of 12 year course members. Meeting up monthly to share explorations, ideas, and questions. Timing: 9.30-11.30am GMT
Facilitated by Isobel Denton
Issy is an artist specialising in traditional practices creating natural inks & dyes for textile & paper applications. She works from her studio in West Yorkshire under the name of ‘abitmoreink’. She became interested in dyes, and dyeing techniques whilst originally working in theatre, film and television, as a costumier. For the last 3 years she has been creating an extensive dye garden - growing plants for use in her own practice. Presently, she is focussed on developing a 3D sculptural work using various traditional craft practices and making paper using plants such as flax and other materials she either grows, or forages locally. In addition to her own practice she regularly delivers workshops at various venues. She also works with many arts based organisations and in schools, to create pieces for exhibitions that explore the narrative of natural dyeing and related processes.