Making Natural Colour & Art Materials
Online and in-person classes
What’s Happening in 2027
What natural materials are fundamental to your creative practice, and how do these materials shape your work?
Join a global community of artists and practitioners sharing their explorations of working with plant, mineral, and animal based materials for making natural colour and art materials.
Each group will gather for 12 monthly sessions. Each session includes a guest artist deep diving in to their practice with a particular natural material, followed by group sharing and discussion.
Welcoming members at all stages of learning, from experienced makers to beginners.
Develop a comprehensive understanding of how to make natural paints and inks for paper, canvas, wood panels, plaster, and other surfaces.
Each session will cover a different approach to paint and ink making using botanical and earth based colour with natural binders.
Swatching and sampling throughout the course, so you can compare the different recipes side by side.
With Natalie Stopka, Caroline Ross, Greta Facchinato, Carolyn Sweeney, Lucy Mayes, Caroline Nicolay & Elise Wagner
2026 Long Online Programmes
Short Online Classes & Talks
“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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