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The Workshop

In this experimental workshop, you’ll learn to create botanical inks using plants from the museum’s Dye Garden and locally foraged materials.

Participants will explore colour modifiers to expand the ink’s palette and practice mark-making and drawing with brushes and tools crafted from natural materials.

This workshop welcomes beginners as well as those experienced with natural dyes.

About The Workshop Leader

Fiona is a weaver and dyer with a BA from Camberwell School of Art and a postgraduate teaching degree from the London Institute for Education. She helps manage the Dye Garden at Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft, finding deep reward in the process—from growing dye plants to dyeing yarns and using them in her textiles.

Passionate about the unique qualities of plants and the colours they yield, Fiona aims to help others reconnect with nature through foraging and growing dye plants for creative projects. She has led natural dyeing workshops for the National Trust, the Forest School Association, and local artists and schools. Recently, she collaborated with Omeima Mudawi-Rowlings MBE on Drawn to the Light as part of Double Weave: Bourne and Allen Modernist Textiles at the museum.