︎COLOUR FORAGING ︎ANNA HUGHES & ELLIE PRITCHARD ︎COLOUR FORAGING
︎COLOUR FORAGING ︎ANNA HUGHES & ELLIE PRITCHARD ︎COLOUR FORAGING
COLOUR FORAGING AND NATURAL INK
MAKING WORKSHOP
ANNA HUGHES AND ELLIE PRITCHARD
COLOUR FORAGING AND NATURAL INK
MAKING WORKSHOP
ANNA HUGHES AND ELLIE PRITCHARD
MAKING WORKSHOP
ANNA HUGHES AND ELLIE PRITCHARD
11 OCT / 10:00 - 13:00
TACO! PRINT STUDIO
POPLAR PLACE
Free but booking essential. Book your place here
Join artists and gardeners Anna Hughes and Ellie Pritchard for the first in a series of seasonal workshops focused on capturing the colour of Thamesmead through foraging local plants.
The workshop offers a sensory and intimate engagement with place and our releationship to it through a colour foraging walk around Thamesmead. The walk focuses on gathering a selection of seasonal plants that can be used to make inks and paints, and colour derived from the specificity of place.
Workshop participants can collect plant material during the walk then head to the TACO! print space to start experimenting. You will learn techniques for extracting colour from plants with an opportunity for painting and drawing with the inks at the end of the session.
Participants leave with their own bottle of natural ink (30ml) made during the session.
Please note
Anna Hughes is an artist and gardener, based locally in Plumstead. She runs creative workshops that focus on building connections to local plants, green spaces and gardens. She has an art studio at Thames-side Studios in Woolwich and regularly runs botanical ink workshops at ‘The Exchange’ Erith, Thames-side Studios in Woolwich and for students at Goldsmiths University. She is a Sculpture Tutor in the Fine Art Department and a Technical Tutor in the Design Department at Goldsmiths University.
Ellie Pritchard is a socially engaged designer and community gardener based in South East London. She currently runs Arbor, a social enterprise that supports and empowers community groups to set up, create and look after their local green spaces. She runs creative nature based workshops across London for different estates, councils, charities and organisations including Kew, Southern Housing and The Museum of Homelessness.
This colour foraging tour is funded by Thamesmead Community Funding from Peabody.
Alongside the workshops a zine and colour foraging trail of the area will be available to purchase from Taco! at Cygnet Square in Spring.
This will include botanical illustrations, natural ink recipes and trails to gather plant material to make your own colour at home!
The workshop offers a sensory and intimate engagement with place and our releationship to it through a colour foraging walk around Thamesmead. The walk focuses on gathering a selection of seasonal plants that can be used to make inks and paints, and colour derived from the specificity of place.
Workshop participants can collect plant material during the walk then head to the TACO! print space to start experimenting. You will learn techniques for extracting colour from plants with an opportunity for painting and drawing with the inks at the end of the session.
Participants leave with their own bottle of natural ink (30ml) made during the session.
Please note
- The workshop not suitable for persons under 18 years of age. Participants must be over 18.
- The first part of the workshop includes be a short walk of 45-60 minutes in duration. The route is accessible but please let us know if you have any questions or access needs, as there may be rougher ground/steps during the walk.
- You should wear suitable clothing and footwear for walking.
- Booking is limited to 12 places and priority will be given to local people living in Thamesmead and the immediate surrounding area.
- Should the workshop be fully booked, there will be a waiting list.
- All materials provided, with drink refreshments and biscuits available.
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Anna Hughes is an artist and gardener, based locally in Plumstead. She runs creative workshops that focus on building connections to local plants, green spaces and gardens. She has an art studio at Thames-side Studios in Woolwich and regularly runs botanical ink workshops at ‘The Exchange’ Erith, Thames-side Studios in Woolwich and for students at Goldsmiths University. She is a Sculpture Tutor in the Fine Art Department and a Technical Tutor in the Design Department at Goldsmiths University.
Ellie Pritchard is a socially engaged designer and community gardener based in South East London. She currently runs Arbor, a social enterprise that supports and empowers community groups to set up, create and look after their local green spaces. She runs creative nature based workshops across London for different estates, councils, charities and organisations including Kew, Southern Housing and The Museum of Homelessness.
This colour foraging tour is funded by Thamesmead Community Funding from Peabody.
Alongside the workshops a zine and colour foraging trail of the area will be available to purchase from Taco! at Cygnet Square in Spring.
This will include botanical illustrations, natural ink recipes and trails to gather plant material to make your own colour at home!