We’ve been sitting on the news of this exciting development for a wee while, and now it is live we are thrilled to tell you all about it! We will be teaching at the V&A Academy in October delivering a week long comprehensive natural dyeing course.

Our five day course at the V&A Academy runs from the 2nd to the 6th of October. Using Jenny Dean’s Colours from Nature as a foundation, we will be covering the traditional dyes as well as the use of mordents and modifiers to shift tone and expand the palette. We will also be looking at how to create natural pigments and stunning patterns through contact printing. In addition you will have the unique opportunity to experience behind-the-scenes gallery tours with V&A textile curators and exclusive object-handling sessions, bringing the renowned V&A collection and history of natural dyeing to life through hands-on learning experiences. We are so pleased to be partnering with the V&A to be delivering this course. You can book your place here.

We have had a very busy few months! Following on from our very successful workshop for the London Business School Student Association, we headed off to Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft to deliver a sold out Handmade Experimental Brushes and Botanical Inks workshop. This is part of a series of workshops to coincide with Shōji Hamada: A Japanese Potter in Ditchling. Ross also delivered a private contact printing workshop at the Duke of Cambridge for a textile group and we are hoping to deliver more workshops there over the next few months.

Ross will be exhibiting at ‘Warped’, the new PRISM show at Art Pavilion, Mile End Park. The exhibition runs from Thursday 20th April to Monday 1st May, and he will be delivering contact printing as part of the series of workshops, on the 24th of April.

In February, I accompanied my Mother on a visit to India to learn traditional Block Printing on a holiday of a lifetime organised by Aahilya Holidays (whom I cannot recommend highly enough). I have been back a few weeks and writing up all our adventures in detail. Working through the thousands of photos I took whilst there is taking a while! You can see and read more about them here.