Exploring Colour

My exploration of creating my own colours to use in my artwork began by chance, I stumbled across a book after viewing the Great Masters Exhibition, in 2021. Spending time in the Gallery bookshop, the book that caught my eye was ‘Make Ink: A Forager’s Guide to Natural Ink-making’ by Jason Logan. I picked it up and thought WOW, this is amazing and then went no, I don’t have time, it’s just adding another process to my art making. I walked away and then went back and thought yes, what fun. So I started experimenting and incorporating botanical inks into my work and also dying my own thread.

I pushed further into exploring other ways to make my own colour, which seems so logical but never really thought much about earth pigments, their history which has been overridden by synthetic pigments. Myself included not really thinking about where and what my art materials are made of.

I am very fortunate that I live a few hundred metres away from a beach, where I have been collecting rocks, to make my own watercolours, which I use as colour washes in my artwork. It has been a time consuming, frustrating process but an enjoyable one, that connects me to where I am now.

Thanks for following along.

Liz