Making Organic Inks and Paints

Join author and artist Nabil Ali for this fascinating evening course. Discover how ink and paint are made from plants and organic materials. This course allows you to create colour samples, enlightening the way we see and make paint by becoming more aware of our natural surroundings.

You will explore methods and techniques using dried leaves, berries, galls, wood, and other organic materials and experience the making processes with documented recipes from historical manuscripts and ancient sources. This will give you authorship and equip you with the tools needed to establish your own paint systems, using plants growing in your own garden as an artistic medium, and connect with nature to better understand your own creative work.

You will also have privileged access to Nabil’s organic paint recipe archive, detailing in-depth recipe insights into the practical foundations for paint-making using common and unusual plants.

This class is open to all abilities, especially beginners.