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… We have different classes you can join every month.
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.
This course has started but you can still join.
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.
An Online Year Course Starting In January 2025
An Introduction To Botanical Dyes & Inks
With Flora Arbuthnott
This year course is a thorough introduction to working with plant based colour for textiles and paper. Taking you through from growing and foraging for colour to processing plants for dyeing, drawing, painting, and printing. Covering methods of fixing and modifying colour using plant based and mineral mordants, as well as pH shifters.
“From believing that we must work with nature, to seeing us as working within nature, to understanding that we are nature working.”
