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🌈 Using colour as catalyst to remember our relationship with Land. 🌿 workshops, art & events FREE guide to start dyeing your clothes with plants! 👉🏽 https://guides.talu.earth/start-dyeing-with-plants 📍 West Wicklow, Ireland 🙋🏽♀️ by Malú Colorín
I would like relevant cultural institutions around the island to have copies of these zines in their libraries for consultation. Who do you think should have copies? Let me know, please! 🙏🏽
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They are very much related to the work I have been doing with Fibreshed Ireland over the past 3 years.
Paper and digital copies of these are available to purchase from my website. The paper copies were riso printed in Baile Átha Cliath by Way Bad Press 🖨️
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✨ Flax zines/posters! ✨
The last pieces I want to show you from the InterWOVEN exhibition are this series of zines/posters. Each of them represents relationships, knowledge, and invitations related to the history and resurgence of flax in Ireland.
Another piece I had the privilege to make for and exhibit at the ‘InterWOVEN’ group show. This is made of wild clay from the Poulaphouca reservoir and flax from my garden and from Mallon Linen farm. It shows the interconnected relationship us humans have with the flax plant, Linum usitatissimum 🩵
I recently had 3 artworks on display as part of a group show entitled ‘InterWOVEN’. The exhibition referenced Linen heritage in a contemporary context.
The pieces are distinctly different, but they all explore topics of deep ecology, mapping relationships and a deep grá, love, for the flax plant 🩵
Me too! 🫣
The crossover I didn’t know I needed!
Now that the ‘InterWOVEN’ exhibition has finished, here’s a walkthrough of one of the pieces I had on display. This is a very personal piece that I think of as a self-portrait of sorts. It will surely keep changing and evolving if and when it’s shown again ✨
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And I hope to see you on Monday 😉
Get the Zoom link by registering here 👉🏽 guides.talu.earth/what-colour
1. Caramel brown wool 2. Light dusty pink wool 3. Golden yellow wool 4. Peachy pink wool A) Tree with lobed leaves and bright red berries B) Small brown cones hanging off the twigs of a tree C) A tall coniferous tree with reddish bark D) Two fuits growing side by side in a cluster, enveloped by a yellowish leafy husk grow in a tree with big rounded leaves that are softly hairy and have serrated edges.
So, can you match the plants in the image to colour they produce?
You can either take a screenshot and draw the lines matching the colour with its source or simply write down a list of the numbers and letters you think go together. The first correct guess will win a surprise! 🎁
Guess which plant makes what colour?
Let’s play a little game! 🎉
As you know, I’m doing a FREE call this Monday 15 September at 6:30pm Irish time to give you my best tips to identify dye plants in the wild and help you guess the shades they could make.
In advance of this, I thought it would be fun to do a little guessing game! 🧵
1. Caramel brown wool 2. Light dusty pink wool 3. Golden yellow wool 4. Peachy pink wool A) Tree with lobed leaves and bright red berries B) Small brown cones hanging off the twigs of a tree C) A tall coniferous tree with reddish bark D) Two fuits growing side by side in a cluster, enveloped by a yellowish leafy husk grow in a tree with big rounded leaves that are softly hairy and have serrated edges.
So, can you match the plants in the image to colour they produce?
You can either take a screenshot and draw the lines matching the colour with its source or simply write down a list of the numbers and letters you think go together. The first correct guess will win a surprise! 🎁
Guess which plant makes what colour?
Let’s play a little game! 🎉
As you know, I’m doing a FREE call this Monday 15 September at 6:30pm Irish time to give you my best tips to identify dye plants in the wild and help you guess the shades they could make.
In advance of this, I thought it would be fun to do a little guessing game! 🧵
Ever wonder…
🤨 Is that dye plant?
🎨 What colour does it make?
🌺 Will this brightly-coloured flower dye my shirt that colour?
🍃 Why is it so hard to get green?
I’ll be answering that+ more next Monday 15 Sept @ 6:30pm (Irish time) on Zoom!
It’s FREE, just register guides.talu.earth/what-colour
Let’s look at some of the colours that are possible on textiles using #plantdyes! 🍃🌈✨
Start your #naturaldyeing journey with my online course ✨Finding Joy in Botanical Dyes✨, which starts 22 September.
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🎶: Funky by AlexGuz
Thanks for finding such excellent prizes! 💙
Just one week until we meet in @willowandlore.bsky.social to celebrate colour from nature with workshops, discussions, meditations, games & stories by the fire! 🎪🌈✨
Here’s a lil’ recap of last year’s festival, with videos by Rafa de Almeida.
Have you got your tickets?
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“With Ashleigh Ellis” Overlaid on top of a portrait of Ashleigh Ellis.
Ashleigh Ellis Ashleigh Ellis is an award-winning eco artist based in Cork, Ireland. She works with many mediums across the arts and health space, and participatory arts, and she teaches an online course on Cyanotype and Natural Dyes. Her practice explores life-affirming reflection and creative processes to deepen the relationship between people and the more-than-human world. Plants, natural pigments, textiles, painting and music are her joy, and she brings a deep knowledge of environmentally conscious art and well-being practices. She works at Helium Arts with young people with life-long health conditions, and teaches on the Eco Art module, Masters in Arts & Engagement, at Munster Technological University, Cork, Ireland.
About Ashleigh:
Ashleigh Ellis is an award-winning eco artist based in Cork. She works with many mediums across the arts and health space, and participatory arts, and she teaches an online course on Cyanotypes.
🎟️ All-weekend and Sunday-only festival tickets available at festivalofcolour.co
“With Ashleigh Ellis” Overlaid on top of a portrait of Ashleigh Ellis.
Ashleigh Ellis Ashleigh Ellis is an award-winning eco artist based in Cork, Ireland. She works with many mediums across the arts and health space, and participatory arts, and she teaches an online course on Cyanotype and Natural Dyes. Her practice explores life-affirming reflection and creative processes to deepen the relationship between people and the more-than-human world. Plants, natural pigments, textiles, painting and music are her joy, and she brings a deep knowledge of environmentally conscious art and well-being practices. She works at Helium Arts with young people with life-long health conditions, and teaches on the Eco Art module, Masters in Arts & Engagement, at Munster Technological University, Cork, Ireland.
About Ashleigh:
Ashleigh Ellis is an award-winning eco artist based in Cork. She works with many mediums across the arts and health space, and participatory arts, and she teaches an online course on Cyanotypes.
🎟️ All-weekend and Sunday-only festival tickets available at festivalofcolour.co
“Archipelago Festival of Colour Musical journalling closing circle Sunday 27 July” Overlaid on top of a photo of a woman in a teal dress playing the harp. Photo by Chi Nguyen Phung on Unsplash
Ashleigh will also lead our closing circle on Sunday with a gentle musical journalling session.
“Archipelago Festival of Colour Drop-in cyanotype printing with natural dyes Sunday 27 July” Overlaid on top of an image of a wet cyanotype print of a leaf with drops all around
On Sunday, people of all ages will be invited to experiment with cyanotype printing, as Ashleigh Ellis will be offering drop-in sessions. You’ll also be able to use natural dyes to create unexpected results on your prints! This fun activity will be open to all, regardless of ticket type.
“The Flax Meitheal Harvest Celebration Join us in An Creagán, Co. Tyrone! 30 - 31 August Subsidised bus & on-site accommodation available. Organised by Fibreshed Ireland, Mallon Linen, Brink!, artpark Hoher Berg and the Linen Biennale Northern Ireland. Supported by the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland and Cultural Bridge” Overlaid on top of a beautiful photo of two pairs of hands pulling flax on a field. The photo is by Yvette Monahan.
Join us for a weekend celebration of flax! 🌾🩵
🗓️ Sat 30 – Sun 31 Aug (
📍 An Creagán & Mallon Linen, Tyrone
🚌 Subsidised transport to and from Dublin (with stops en route) & on-site accommodation available!
🥪 Meals included
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“With Ruth Osborne” Overlaid on top of a portrait of Ruth Osborne arranging some printed pieces on a wall.
Ruth Osborne Ruth Osborne is an artist based in County Down. Her creative practice has developed through her background in Art History, printmaking, interest in folklore and textiles heritage in Ireland, in particular the story of Linen. Ruth works primarily on locally sourced Irish Linen and creates unique works combining a range of printmaking techniques and hand-embellished painterly elements using natural dyes, plant inks, and earth pigments, which she gathers sustainably and processes by hand. Ruth has exhibited and sold her work since 2019 and has work represented in public and private collections, including Antrim Area Hospital and National Museums Northern Ireland. ➡️
Ruth Osborne ➡️ She has received awards and grants from the Arts Council NI for the creation of new bodies of work and took part in a British Council Cultural Exchange Residency between Finland and Northern Ireland during 2023. Ruth is also a facilitator and tutor and regularly delivers a range of creative workshops for arts and heritage organisations. Ruth is an Artist in Residence for the Arts and Health Charity, Arts Care and an Artist Fellow on The Mac Belfast's New Visions project, funded by the Free Lands Foundation.
🌾 About Ruth:
Ruth Osborne’s creative practice has developed through her background in Art History, printmaking, interest in folklore and textiles heritage in Ireland, in particular the story of Linen.
🎟️ All-weekend and Sunday-only festival tickets available at festivalofcolour.co
“Archipelago Festival of Colour Colour safari & native tree inks & dyes workshop Saturday 26 July” Overlaid over a photo of a few naturally dyed samples hanging on a wall and ink tests of various colours on small pieces of paper.
On Saturday, artist Ruth Osborne will be teaming up with Alison Nea (Modh) to lead us on a Colour Safari around @willowandlore.bsky.social During the safari, we’ll discover dyestuffs in the hedges to utilise in her ink making and natural dyeing workshop afterwards!
“with Katerina Gribkoff” Overlaid in top of a black and white portrait of Katerina Gribkoff wearing a flower crown.
Katerina Gribkoff Katerina Gribkoff is an artist and researcher based in the West of Ireland. She is currently finishing a Ph.D. in practice-based artistic research at the Burren College of Art / University of Galway. Her research uses permaculture, systems theory, and ecological thinking as a framework to cultivate an artistic practice as a living system. She has been growing dye plants in the Burren for four years. Her methodology includes quilting, sculpture, film photography, gardening, and material play. Katerina regularly disseminates her research and interests through workshops, collaborative projects, and writing.
🌼 About Katerina:
Katerina Gribkoff is an artist and researcher based in the West of Ireland. She is currently finishing a Ph.D. in practice-based artistic research at the Burren College of Art / University of Galway.
🎟️ All-weekend and Sunday-only festival tickets available at festivalofcolour.co
“Archipelago Festival of Colour talk and make: charming the garden Sunday 27 July” Overlaid on top of a photo of weld plants (Reseda luteola) by Katerina Gribkoff.
“take home a dye plant charm it first plant the plant and care, to maintain it think with it, make with it go to seed” Overlaid on top of a photo of madder plants (Rubia tinctorum) by Katerina Gribkoff.
Artist Katerina Gribkoff will treat all-weekend ticket holders to a morning of deep ecology, with a beautiful mindful session 🌱talk and make: charming the garden🌱
An open spread of the Go Leor magazine, showing an article about Malú Colorín in the left side and the poster for the 2025 Archipelago Festival of Colour on the right side.
Thanks to Go Leor magazine for featuring me in their 2nd issue, alongside Esther O’Kelly and Judith Logan 🙌🏽✨ Go Leor is the latest magazine covering the arts, creativity and therapy throughout #Ireland.
In this issue, you’ll find… (a thread 🧵)
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A portrait of Tricia Kelly smiling, with the words “and Tricia Kelly (Ócar)”
Tricia Kelly (Ócar) Tricia is the founder behind Ócar.ie, based on the beautiful North Coast of Ireland. She processes Antrim red ochre from the interbasaltic formation into artists' grade pigment. Working by hand using traditional methods, Tricia carries on a pigment-making custom that dates back many thousands of years on this island. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin History of Art, Tricia founded Ócar in 2023, after a long career in Adult Learning support. The Ócar oil and watercolour paint range, made by Wallace Seymour Ltd, is available in independent art supply stores from New York to Dnipro. For more information and to contact Tricia, go to www.ocar.ie
🧱 About Tricia:
Tricia is the founder behind Ócar.ie, based on the beautiful North Coast of Ireland. She processes Antrim red ochre from the interbasaltic formation into artists' grade pigment.
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