Natural Ink Making - A Practical Day Workshop
With Ione Maria Rojas
10-4pm BST On Friday 20th September 2024
Venue: Brentor Village Hall, 6 Station Rd, Brentor, Tavistock PL19 0LW
Learn how to make your own inks and pigments from flowers, plants, food waste & weeds in this one day workshop with artist and food grower Ione Maria Rojas. Ione is interested in the colours we can make from our immediate environment, and what images and stories emerge when we work with these more intuitively. She'll take you through a series of simple colour making techniques, with a focus on ingredients you can find on your street and in your kitchen. You’ll then be guided through some playful ways of working with ink and natural colour, using mark making and automatic drawing to develop your own visual vocabulary.
By the end of the day, you’ll have your own handmade ink to take home with you, as well as any drawings you've made, a recipe card, ideas and references for further art making.
This Workshop is limited to 12 participants.
What is Included:
All materials included, though you are welcome to bring any of your own.
A vegetarian lunch of soup, bread, and salad.
Tea, coffee, and coffee.
About Ione Maria Rojas:
I am interested in how working with our hands invites us into different forms of connection - with ourselves, with others, with our immediate environment. My practice is multidisciplinary and includes: digging clay, making inks and pigments with found and foraged materials, walking, drawing, writing, facilitating, sowing seeds and listening to birds.
Some questions central to my practice are:
How can small acts of imagination, creativity and making disrupt and dismantle dominant thought systems?
How can working with our hands (in the soil, with clay, through gathering and making) catalyse new conversations or new ways into existing conversations?
How might making materials with elements found, foraged and gathered from our immediate environment teach us about our relationships with and responsibilities for the other-than-humans we share that environment with?
What are the possibilities and challenges of developing a place-based practice as someone with mixed heritage, when home is not a fixed entity?
I am currently based in Devon and have spent the past few years moving between the UK and Mexico, spending time with the friends, family and land I am connected to in each place. https://www.ionemariarojas.com/