Making & Working With Natural Art Materials
Online Study Groups
Monthly online study groups for the Lake Pigment Making Online Course Members who seek to be part of a supportive creative community.
These are small informal peer group meeting up to share explorations, ideas, and questions.
Format: A small group of 12 who meet up monthly for a two hour meeting on Zoom. This is an informal open space for emergent discussion and conversation. Members are invited to share questions with the group, explorations, and works in process or completed. This is supported by ongoing conversation and photo sharing online.
Purpose: 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.
Just 12 Spaces Available in each group
Price: 12 Payments of £17.00 for 12 months, 1 Payment of £180.00
How To Join: Join the Lake Pigment Making Course Programme to access the sign-up page.
Annie Hogg
Group Dates & Times:
6-8pm GMT
On the first Wednesday of each month: April 1st, May 6th, June 3rd, July 1st, August 5th, September 2nd, October 7th, Nov 4th, December 2nd, Jan6th 2027, Feb 3rd, March 3rd, April 7th.
Annie Hogg is a visual artist based in Co. Tipperary, Ireland, where she lives and works with Archy, a Hound.
Her work explores power relations and resources. Aiming to see both human and other than human responses and outcomes in human led situations.
She works with natural materials in traditional and innovative ways within her studio based practice predominantly through sculpture and installation, and has recently begun to incorporate social engagement, sound and moving image.
After receiving a BA in sculpture from Aki College of Art, The Netherlands, she worked on environmental campaigns, studied organic horticulture returning to a full time creative practice in recent years. These tendrils remain important within her visual language.
Annie enjoys delivering engaging workshops, talks and lectures on materials and processes within her own practice and the greater realm of natural colour and material use.
Isobel Denton
Group Dates & Times:
TBC
Issy is a textile 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.
I'm focused on growing my dye plants, as I have a large dye garden. I'm more of a generalist when it comes to using the materials I grow and a general experimentalist. Sustainability is at the core of my practice, and more recently my work has been exploring paper-making and sculptural forms. I’ve just co-created an exhibition with children from @makerworldhudds called Biophilic Sculptures as part of the Woven Festival, made entirely from sustainable materials—recycled paper and textiles, naturally dyed with plants from my garden.