Nature drives my colour palette
Collaborating with nature is a pure joy. It is a choice and an opportunity to adopt new practices for how we view colour. Natural colours can be sourced from renewable resources, like waste, weeds… Extracting pigment from plants, making inks or dyes, setting up an indigo vat are slow but amazing processes. When done correctly, the colours obtained are rich, soft, vibrant and lasting. Here are a few images of these processes and results.
Blue indigo
Making blue from natural indigo pigment is the most beautiful process you’ll ever seen. Using the natural organic VAT process, you only need: indigo pirgment from leaves + lime + fructose. I use the organically grown indigo (Persicaria tinctoria) from the south of France.
Natural dyes
It all begins with plants and there is no going back! Elderberries, pomegranate skins, artichoke leaves, fig tree leaves, carrot fronds, madder root, pernambucco shavings… A plant decoction has many uses, from dyeing to printing natural fibres, such as cotton, linen, hemp, paper.
Natural Inks and pigments
The result is so worth it! Making your own inks or pigments can take a little bit of time. The pigment extracted from plants are used to make my own printing paste. The colours are incredibly strong and vibrant.