Pigment Work
I work with foraged materials from my immediate environment to extract pigment and turn it into paints and inks. My focus is on materials considered invasive, excessive, or otherwise undesirable. Some of my frequent collaborators include phragmites, brick fragments, copper and iron scraps, and mugwort. I occasionally teach workshops on finding and processing environmental pigments. To find out about upcoming teaching, please sign up for my newsletter here.
Acknowledgements
My work in this field owes an enormous debt of gratitude to many teachers. Tilke Elkins, founder of Wild Pigment Project, is the source of my process, inspiration, and ethic. I was immensely fortunate to study with Tilke in 2023-2024 and continue to learn from her. I have also learned from the work of Heidi Gustafson, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Jason Logan, Jenny Dean, Natalie Stopka, Ellie Irons, Kauae Raro Research Collective, Mary Siisip Geniusz, the ochre artists of the San / Bushmen peoples, and the Indigenous rock painters and carvers from the region colonially known as New Mexico; and from the being of turkeys, rocks, pokeweed, mugwort, phragmites, iron, oxygen, and many, many others.