About this Event
About the artist
Polly Bennett graduated from City & Guilds of London Art School in 2018 and in 2019 completed The Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers Decorative Surfaces Fellowship. She is an Honorary Freeman of The Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers, and a member of the Wilderness Art Collective, a group of creatives whose work discusses the natural world.
Polly is an environmental artist “portraying the land, with the land” through traditional craftsmanship, using locally sourced materials that guide her process.
Looking at site-specific historical context, combined with a museological approach to materials, she collaborates with, and investigates the surrounding rural environment to re-visualise her experience within it. The concluding work recollects the explored environment as a souvenir.
Polly is a natural pigment collector and maker. In 2020 she founded her company POLBEN’s Pigment, where she celebrates and sells sustainable artist’s pigments and inks created from natural materials sourced by herself.
www.pollybennett.com @polben.art @polbenspigment
Workshop details
2 hour class
10 people
Join artist Polly Bennett for a pigment making workshop using natural materials found in the local area to create artist's pigments.
On this pigment making workshop participants will learn how to grind and purify natural pigment and subsequently turn the finished pigment into paint. The pigment used will come from earth sourced from nearby the location of the workshop, i.e. Sussex and Kent, celebrating a sense of place and environmentally-friendly practices.
At the end of the workshop, you will take home a hand-painted colour chart, purified pigment and watercolour paint.
IMPORTANT: Please bring a glass jar and lid. Everything else is provided.
On my workshop participants learn
The historical origins of pigment Responsibilities and health & safety of collecting natural materials and processing pigment.
About different binders, specifically gum arabic and its history and sustainability about different types of natural pigment: mineral (inc. shell - calcium carbonate), metal compound, animal, plant, charcoalHow to grind, sieve and purify mineral into pigment.
To create watercolour paint with pigment
On my workshop participants take home
Handout with notes and reading recommendations
Hand-painted colour wheel
Watercolour paint
Purified pigment
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
10 West St, 10 West Street, Hastings, United Kingdom
GBP 50.00
