Make your own Concertina Book using plant based dyes

Please join us for a workshop with our featured artist Jean Gillespie inspired by her exhibition Waterways: mapping wetlands

In this workshop we will fold and create our own concertina books and delve further into Jean’s process by using plant based dyes to print using leaves and other natural forms.

We will explore the myriad of colours that can be achieved using dyes such as madder, indigo and weld and how these can be altered using mordants.

We will look at plants, flowers, stem, bark and root in fresh, dried and powdered form and be shown as a group how to make our own ink which we will then bottle and label.

As a group we will then be given the chance to select leaves to print in our very own concertina books.

All materials provided.

Suitable for Adults 18+

PLEASE BE AWARE THAT WE WILL BE TOUCHING AND HANDLING PLANTS and PLANT BASED DYES: we therefore advise that old clothes are worn and that we will require participants to use masks, aprons and gloves(all provided) for certain elements of the workshop.