Learn how to make colour from plants, earths, and fungi for textiles and paper.
Online & in-person courses, talks, & workshops working with local natural materials to make colours. Artists and makers sharing their expertise working with raw materials to make inks, dyes, paints, pastels, crayons, and more…
An Online Year Course Starting In October 2024
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. Starting In October 2024
Taught By Flora Arbuthnott, Julie Beeler, Caroline Ross, Annie Hogg, Natalie Stopka, Sophie Holt, Lucy Mayes, & Carolyn Sweeney
An In-Person Practical Five Day Workshop:
Found & Ground
With Caroline Ross
23rd – 27th June 2025 10:00 am – 4:00 pm,
Brentor, Tavistock, Devon
Learn essential skills to create your own art materials from natural resources. You'll leave equipped with a personal art kit and the confidence to gather and process pigments, make paints, pastels, inks, and more—anywhere your creative journey may take you.
“From believing that we must work with nature, to seeing us as working within nature, to understanding that we are nature working.”
