From Stone to Paint: A Day with Earth Pigments
4 July @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
(With a lunch break – please bring your own lunch. Coffee, tea and biscuits provided.)
Group size: 12
This one-day workshop, led by Jessica Lennan, is an introduction to working with earth pigments and making colour from the landscape.
We’ll begin the morning indoors, looking at what earth pigments are and how to recognise and test for them. Then we’ll head out for a walk around Hatherleigh Moor Brook to see what we can find.
In the afternoon, we’ll spend time grinding stones into pigment and turning that into watercolour paint. It’s a slow, hands-on process. By the end of the day, you’ll leave with your own handmade watercolour paint from the place itself.
All tools and paper are provided. You’re very welcome to bring a sketchbook or your own paper as well.
About Jessica Lennan
Jessica Lennan is a photographer and artist based on the edge of Dartmoor. Her work explores place and material processes, often combining photography with pigments made from stones collected on site. She is interested in slow, tactile ways of understanding place and in the relationship between image and material.
