Saturday 27th June

10am - 1pm

One day class

Cost £10

Materials included.

Discover the beauty of plant-based dyes and inks in this workshop exploring natural colour from locally foraged and grown plant. You will experiment with creating some simple inks and creating your own hand-printed designs on fabric using an array of decorative wood blocks and printing inks made from natural dyes. All materials are provided for this workshop.

About Ruth:

I am an Irish Textile Artist and Printmaker based in rural County Down. My work is linked to place, seasonal transitions, and heritage. I use a range of printmaking processes, in particular the historic process of Nature Printing, and the Heritage Crafts of natural dyeing and pigment making to create original artworks on Irish Linen. My work references the landscape through the creation of site-responsive artwork that often draws upon materials that can be found naturally occurring in nature: from flora for printing and natural dyeing to the use of earth and clay for pigment making. 

Supported by City Airport Community Fund