Study Groups
Monthly online study groups for those who are exploring natural colour making and seek to be part of a supportive creative community. These are small informal peer groups meeting up to share explorations, ideas, and questions.
Format:
Groups meet up monthly for a two hour meeting on Zoom. 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. 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.
Live Session: In order to make the sessions more affordable, we have decided to just have the sessions live and not make a recording.
Commitment:
These are ongoing groups, where you can build relationships and support each other as you develop your creative practice throughout the seasons. To join the group, you have to commit to join a term of six monthly sessions. There are two terms per year.
Timing: Wednesdays 9.30-11.30am (GMT+1 for the first session, and then GMT)
Term Dates: 1st Wednesday of each month: October 1st 2025, Nov 5th 2025, Dec 3rd 2025, Jan 7th 2026, Feb 4th 2026, March 4th 2026
Payment: £65 for 6 months for six sessions.
These sessions are not recorded. The group is limited to 12 people
Facilitated by Annie Hogg
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.
Learn more about Plants & Colour Study Groups. During 2020 lockdown, Flora Arbuthnott of Plants & Colour gave a call out for a new Study Group series based around plants and colour, obviously enough! We began as we continue today, with each term or round running for a 6 month period and meeting once a month for a two hour Zoom call. Having signed up out of interest to connect with like-minded folks, I could not possibly have fore seen then just how important these monthly meet ups were to become to me.