This workshop will be a celebration of these three special plants in the medieval context. A part of the day will be learning about the significance of these plants and how they were used in both artwork creation and the dyeing of fabric many hundreds of years ago. Together these plants create the primary colour trio, red, yellow and blue so we will see how a whole colour spectrum can be achieved from these three initial sources.

During the day there will be demonstrations of some of the methods of how colour was obtained from these plants and methods of turning them into dyes, inks and pigments (inc how to make rose madder and lake weld) with time to experiment with inks and paints made from them.

Participants will go home with a bottle of ink made from each of these colours as well as a colour chart poster to reference each of the colours and the different types of art materials that can be made with them.

Date
10:00am - 3:30pm
£70*

*we have bursary places available on each workshop for people on a low income, please do inquire, we are happy to answer any queries.

Accessibility:

Our workshops are held in our studio which is up a flight of stairs (relatively wide with a handrail on both sides). Our toilets are upstairs and easily accessed from the studio.

If you would like to book onto the course and have any further questions about any accessibility before doing so, please get in touch, we welcome any questions or queries.