Natural Pigment Making Workshop - Rye Harbour (12/05/2024)

Tutor:  Polly Bennett 

Join artist Polly Bennett in a pigment making workshop using earth and rock from Rye to create artist's earth pigments.

On the workshop you will learn how to grind and purify earth into pigment to turn into watercolour paint. The mineral used will be sourced from the local area, celebrating a sense of place and environmentally-friendly practices.

Participants will leave the workshop with purified pigment that they can continue to purify at home, watercolour paint, a hand painted colour wheel and an information handout.

Tea and coffee will be provided.

Please bring a glass jar with lid along with you.

About Polly:

Polly Bennett graduated from City & Guilds of London Art School in 2018 and in 2019 completed The Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers Decorative Surfaces Fellowship. She is an Honorary Freeman of The Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers, and a member of the Wilderness Art Collective, a group of creatives whose work discusses the natural world.

Polly is an environmental artist and pigment maker. In 2020 she founded her company POLBEN’s Pigment, where she celebrates and sells sustainable artist’s pigments and inks created from natural materials.

Location:  Rye Harbour Discovery Centre, Harbour Road, Rye, TN31 7FW

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