After the wonderful course with Rob Jones at West Dean College, I made up my own indigo vat. I wanted to dye some papers and I also wanted to eco print in a turmeric bath, over dyeing with indigo. The end result was this book, using papers, fabrics and various other bits and pieces. Most...
I had the good fortune to experience a week of Summer School at West Dean, attending a course on Shibori and Indigo dyeing with Rob Jones, of Romor Designs, who is strongly influenced by Japanese techniques in the art, is a wonderful teacher and gave us so much information. Here are a few of my...
Having watched various Youtube videos on eco printing papers, I’ve been trying a different technique. I soaked watercolour and mixed media papers in aluminium acetate and plant material in alum, though I forgot to do the plant material once and it didn’t seem to make any difference. I secured the layers of paper between two...
Having been on a day’s workshop at Hawkwood College with Babs Behan, on which we used flowers from the garden to print a silk scarf and being pleased withe results, I got rather carried away back home. I mordanted silk with alum, cotton and linen with aluminium acetate which gives much better results on plant...
Having purchased a commercial gel plate some time ago and not really used it much, I decided to do some printing with plant material. I made the following little book. The cover uses a collagraph print around the spine and I mounted the trimmed prints on khadi paper. Spirits of the Garden I then made...