Medicinal Tree Inks - An Online Class With Kathryn John - 3rd July
Medicinal Tree Inks - An Online Class With Kathryn John - 3rd July
Wednesday 3rd July 2024 4-5.30pm BST
This session will focus on making inks with the trees Hawthorn and Willow and introduce the abundant properties of these medicinal plants. We will explore how to make the inks from the bark and branches and introduce making our own modifiers for beautiful colour shifts on the page and in the pot. Hawthorn is a plant traditionally used in herbal medicine for the physical and emotional heart, and Willow bark also holds many properties for promoting wellbeing including supporting periods of grief. This session will introduce working with plants in our ink and art-making as a way of connecting with these life-enhancing benefits.
You will automatically be emailed the recording the day after when it is uploaded. The recording will be made available to those who have signed up to watch for three months afterwards.
Kathryn John (they/she) is an artist, writer, teacher and founder of The NATURAL INK. Project, currently based in their homelands of Pembrokeshire, West Wales.
With a background in Art History and education, Kathryn has been a practising artist since 2013, and making ink and paint from the natural world since 2016. They have been writing in notebooks, for small print publications, and online for many years. She is currently in receipt of an Arts Council Wales grant which will support practice development working alongside neurodivergent and queer arts organisations, local community spaces and members of the Earth Sciences department at Aberystwyth University.
Her love of the seasonal alchemy of colour-making is rooted in a life spent outdoors, wandering fields beaches and connecting with the more than human world.
Their work focuses on mental and physical health and healing, ecology, seasonality, spirituality and Buddhism, being a self-employed person and small business owner, the creative process, queerness, how we nurture connection and become aware of that which creates disconnection, and how we might belong to ourselves, our places, communities, and the wider world. Work manifests as colour made from places and plants encountered, expressions of these meetings on paper, site-sensitive installation, writing, textwork and facilitated spaces for group dialogue, making and play.