Colour Lab: A Year in the Field - A Seasonal Colour Workshop SPRING

Following our sold-out session at London Design Festival 2025, Colour Lab by Colour of Saying is expanding to a full year.
SPRING - Natural Dyes & Botanical Ink Painting / Saturday 25 April 2026
1pm-4pm. Meet at the gate 12:30 PM.
The farm in late April: acid greens, blush whites, peaches, light greys, the yellow-green of unfurling nettles. Freshly foraged plant extraction, water-based inks, hand-painting onto textiles, mordanting with alum. Pale palette intelligence.

One farm. Four seasons. A single colour wheel belonging entirely to this place.

Each session reads the landscape for what it offers that season, foraging for plant material, extracting natural dyes, making lake pigments and botanical inks, and building a shared understanding of how colour is made, not just chosen.

Led by colour researcher and forecaster Laura Perryman (founder of Colour of Saying, author of The Colour Bible) in collaboration with natural dye designer Amber Fry (CSM BA Textile Design, 2025), whose graduate practice centres on soil-to-soil colour systems grown from her own allotment.

Across the year, every swatch, extraction note, and pigment sample contributes to a collective Place Colour Wheel, a physical document and research publication of one working farm's full chromatic range through one growing year. No two editions will ever be the same.
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Spring & Winter Sessions run 1pm-4pm. Meet at the gate 12:30 PM.
Maximum 20 participants per session.
Location: The London Flower Farmer, Coppermill Lane, Walthamstow E17 7HE.
Meeting point: Douglas Eyre Sports Centre Front Gate

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TICKETING

Individual sessions are available at £65 standard / £52 early bird (3+ weeks in advance) / £35 community rate (neighbours of the farm, students, NHS workers, carers). + booking fees

The full-year ticket (£195 + booking fees) covers all four sessions and is the only way to receive the final limited-edition Place Colour Wheel. Joining details for all four sessions will be sent after purchase.

This event follows the sold-out Colour Lab at London Design Festival 2025 - places will go quickly.

Questions? Contact [email protected]

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Douglas Eyre Sports Centre, Coppermill Lane, London, United Kingdom

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