This week I'm joined by Flora Arbuthnott from www.plantsandcolour.co.uk.

Having met Flora a few years ago, I was keen for her to be a guest on the podcast. We discuss the many similarities between her practices of creating colour from plants and my practice of building homes, from plants. Flora also goes through the process of extracting some colour from a flower so that you can try it at home.   

Flora's Bio: I make dyes, inks, and paints out of plants for drawing, painting, printing, and dyeing textiles and paper. I explore wild and cultivated plants to produce a variety of vibrant colours. Observing and learning from the plants that grow around us, I came to this practice through a desire to connect with the land where I live. Plants such as meadowsweet and buddleia flowers, oak galls, and dock roots, or growing dye plants in my garden such as madder, woad, and coreopsis.

Links

• Building Sustainability Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/buildingsustainability
• Plants and colour - https://plantsandcolour.co.uk/
• Plants and colour Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/plants_and_colour/
• Emma Colville (Sculpture) - https://www.instagram.com/emmajeankemp/
• Spoon Carving course - Winterbourne Barn - https://www.winterbournebarn.org.uk/event/spoon-carving-workshop/

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