Earth Pigments

Processing pigment is a slow, meditative practice, I enjoy the way in which this opposes our cultural norms of productivity and efficiency. I am exploring how this alchemical process may support us on journies of transformation and healing by inviting us to reconnect more deeply with places and natural materials. Often, I work with what is there rather than seeking out material, this involves engaging and relating over a long period of time, returning and getting to know a place and its inhabitants, human and more than human.

Working with pigments can be likened to a ritual, of burning, of grinding, dissolving, separating ultimately culminating in the transformation of materials to create something different. On an eco- therapeutic level, I am interested in the wounding and healing that happens to both humans and the land around us. I wish to map these experiences of rupture, recovery and transformation. Through working with raw pigments I have collected from the land around me, I aim to both expresses beauty and disruption as a response to environmental crisis.