NEW BOOK RELEASE - Gathering Colour by Caitlin ffrench — Foraging Magic & Making Art From the World Around You.
NEW BOOK!
GATHERING COLOUR
by Caitlin ffrench
As artist Caitlin ffrench shares her deeply personal approach to working with natural pigments, she invites readers to discover magic in the colour all around you. Explore how to respectfully wildcraft pigments from rocks, dirt and sticks; and how to forage or cultivate dye plants. Learn how to make inks, paints and dyes from natural pigments for use on paper, fibre, textiles and more. Develop personal rituals for marking the seasons and interacting with nature that will inform and inspire your creativity. For artists, for crafters, for curious inhabitants of this big beautiful world: Gathering Colour will help you bring fresh perspective and a connection to nature into your creative practice.
Caitlin's notebook is also available - Gathering Colour Field Notebook.
Gathering Colour Field Notebook
by Caitlin ffrench
These images of Maiwa’s earth pigments come from Canadian artist Caitlin ffrench.
Caitlin ffrench
Caitlin works deeply with the idea of place and hand-made colour. She is an accomplished paint maker (and dyer) who has the ability to coax subtle hues from the earth. She is usually working with wildcrafted pigments, gathered from within the landbases she visits. Stones or discarded bricks are laboriously ground down finer and finer until they are fine enough to be called pigments - beautiful dusty colour - and then transformed again by her into paints. For Caitlin, to make a pigment from a stone is to make a connection between place and memory.
Visit Caitlin on instagram at @ffrench or at her website caitlinffrench.com.
EARTH PIGMENTS
Caitlin works deeply with the idea of place and hand-made colour. She is an accomplished paint maker (and dyer) who has the ability to coax subtle hues from the earth. She is usually working with wildcrafted pigments, gathered from within the landbases she visits. Stones or discarded bricks are laboriously ground down finer and finer until they are fine enough to be called pigments - beautiful dusty colour - and then transformed again by her into paints.
For Caitlin, to make a pigment from a stone is to make a connection between place and memory.
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