The Art Of Crafting Natural Colours & Fibres
Online & in-person learning directly from artists and makers who are working with local natural materials for colour and fibres. These are mostly one-off learning events sharing skills working with raw materials to make inks, dyes, paints, pastels, crayons, cordage, textiles, and more… We have different classes you can join every month.
Short One-off Online Classes & Talks:
Mentoring
We are developing a new mentoring programme.
Mentoring from Plants & Colour teachers for creatives engaged in natural colour making at all stages of their practice, including students, graduates, emerging or established artists and makers, and self taught creatives.
A Mischief of Colour Makers: A Summer Meet Up for South West Colour Makers
Saturday 19th July 1-5pm
Venue: Moor Imagination Centre, Buckfastleigh, Devon
Devon based artist Ione Maria Rojas and Plants & Colour founder Flora Arbuthnott are organising a regional colour making meet up.
Come and join us for a day time gathering of people who are practicing natural colour making for visual arts and craft, and who are based in South West England.
It’ll be an informal event, aimed at strengthening our network and fostering mutual support and learning. A space to share ideas, processes, doubts, queries and the joy of working within the landscape and ecology of South West.
An Online Year Course October 2024 - November 2025
Natural Colour Making
For Artists
A year-long course sharing techniques for making natural art materials for drawing, painting, and printmaking from earths, plants, and fungi.
This course has started but you can still join.
Taught By Julie Beeler, Caroline Ross, Annie Hogg, Natalie Stopka, Sophie Holt, Lucy Mayes, Flora Arbuthnott, & Carolyn Sweeney
This year long course will explore a variety of techniques for printmaking and painting on textiles using natural dyes, inks, and pigments. Online sessions and demonstrations taught by artists and craftspeople, giving you a broad overview of the different approaches to making enduring patterns and prints on fabric that are light-fast and wash-fast.
“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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