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Carol Harvey is a mixed media artist who makes her own natural art materials, capturing elements of the landscape, bringing her closer to nature 🎨

Phenomenal results from the workshop I call Cauldr

Phenomenal results from the workshop I call Cauldrons of Colour - natural fabric dyeing with these young creatives using tie dye and shibori methods, dip dyeing, petal pounding, Indian block printing with natural fabric dye pigments: Logwood, Madder Root, Dock Leaf, Blue Woad, Weld and Safflower 🌼

What a colourful day!! 🎨

#fabricdye #naturaldyestuffs #logwood #woad #weld #dockleaf #safflower #madder #madderroot #naturaldyes #blockprint #colourfromnature #art #fibrearts #textileart #artworkshop #petalpounding #shiboridyeingmethod #tiedye #chippingnorton #artforteens #artworkshopsforkidsandteens #whattodoinchippingnorton

What a fantastic start to my Summer Art Program! S

What a fantastic start to my Summer Art Program! So proud of these students who have been coming to my art workshops since they were 5!

So many skills learned today - collage work on the inner frame, geli prints on the outer frame, hammering nails to make the loom, then weaving.

We have decided to call these Venetian Weaves. I think they deserve the fancy title!

I love that they are similar in format but so different in colour and atmosphere - the essence of art, expressions of the artist who created them 🎨

#summerartprogram #art #artworkshopsforkidsandteens #weaving #collage #loom #homemadeloom #geliplate #gelplateprinting #creative #creativeskills #artworkshop #mixedmediaart #fibrearts #naturalwool #naturalfibres

Enjoying working on this little piece, 'Familiar R

Enjoying working on this little piece, 'Familiar Roots', using my natural cordage and the twining method to connect it together.

Love the colours in the cordage and the roots against the lime green and sunny flowers.

Not sure if it is finished, may add another double row of cordage.

Love these mini daisies (Mayweed) that remind me of walks through the fields in Ontario as a child.

#backtoroots #meadows
#Mayweed #daisies #cordage #twining #twiningmethod #weaving #freeweaving #fibrearts #fibreartist #art

Still some spaces available to sign up your young

Still some spaces available to sign up your young creatives for fabric and t-shirt dyeing (2 workshops) and make a loom and weave (also 2 workshops).

Message or email me for more details and to book 🎨

#summerartprogramforkidsandteens #creativefreedom #artforkids #fabricdye #tiedye #weaving #loom #whattodoinchippingnorton #oxfordshirartist #pigments #cotswoldsartist #artist #pigmentartist #fibreartist

Little natural watercolour paints made from powder

Little natural watercolour paints made from powdery Cornish shale in ceramic and mussel shell palettes 🐚

Beautiful rich colour usable with brush and palette knife 🎨

#naturalwatercolourpaints #regionalnaturalpigments
#pigments #naturalpigment #cornishcoast #cornwall #mineralpigment #art #naturalwatercolour #soilbasedpaint #paint
#pigmentartist #naturalpaintpalette

So excited to have made it to this exceptional exh

So excited to have made it to this exceptional exhibition called Flaxen by Alice Fox at the beautiful and historical Kestle Barton in Cornwall.

Stunning work made from flax and other natural fibres grown at Kestle Barton farm and allotment of the artist.

Beautifully presented and curated. Gorgeous and inspiring.

@kestle_barton
@alicefoxartist
#fibreartist
#pigmentartist
#flax #weaving

So much fun experimenting with another batch of fa

So much fun experimenting with another batch of fabric dyeing. This book is a visual Exel spreadsheet of my dyeing records 🎨

Some firm new favourites - logwood, which is a stunningly beautiful crimson red that turns purple when dry, (honestly, where has logwood been all my life?!) and safflower, virtually liquid sunshine with vibrant orange and yellow tones.

Other ones I tried and like are oak galls, (earthy blacks and greys), madder root with an iron mordant (deep burnt orange), dyer's coreopsis (amber yellow), black beans (pale pink), beech nuts (lovely purple/grey), dock leaves (light chestnut brown).

There are always the ones that are less successful - nettles (pale green/grey), mehonia berries (a muddy, indescribable colour), hawthorn (pale tan), willow (pale peach) none of which I will probably bother with again.

Learning by doing is so satisfying, and there will always be the ones that don't turn out, but you never know until you try. Out of 12 trials, to find 8 successes is good going. It doesn't always work out that way.

I have experimented with new colours for my own pleasure, saved 5 items of my clothing from going to the charity shops, and mostly, to teach my Summer Art Program students which begins on the 21st of July - message me for details 🎨

Brilliant fun!

#fabricdye #naturalcolour #naturalpigments #pigments #artmeetsnature #dye #naturemeetsart #art #summerartprogramforkidsandteens #dyeyourownclothes #whattodoinchippingnorton
#fabricdyeing #fibrearts

Enjoying experimenting with natural cordage using

Enjoying experimenting with natural cordage using different plants to see the characteristics of each - colour, smoothness/texture, thickness, strength, sheen, flexibility, how it dries and availability - to see which one will suit the meadow weave project I need it for 🎨

Nature is so beautiful, strong and varied. Love it 🌱🌾🌿

#naturalcordage #naturalfibre #naturalartmaterials #cordage #mixedmediaart #mixedmedia
#fibrearts #fibreartist #art
#naturemeetsart #cotswolds #cotswoldlandscape #cotswoldsartist #weave #Oxfordshire #natureinspires #oxfordshireartist #weaving #inspiredbynature #meadows

Looking forward to so much creative fun with stude

Looking forward to so much creative fun with students this in my Summer Art Program 🎨

If you want your young creatives to join in and learn how to make a loom, create a weave, use natural plants to dye fabric and learn how to transfer the shape and colour of flowers directly onto fabric, send me a message or email for more details of to book.

#whattodointhecotswolds #whattodoinchippingnorton #summerartprogramforkidsandteens #creativecourses
#creativecoursesforchildren
#weaving #fabricdyeing #mixedmediaart #fibreartist
#pigmentartist #fabricdyeing #carolharveyart #art #cotswoldsartist #creativity #naturalcolour #creatives #petalpounding #nature #natureinspired #natural #naturalpigments #lovenature #creativefreedom #artist

Wonderful way to spend a day, creating a weave wit

Wonderful way to spend a day, creating a weave with one of my dearest friends at Wayward Weaves in Stroud under the instruction of the lovely Nicola.

I love the intuitive Saori method - no plan, just go for it and weave as you go, reacting to the last row or colour. So freeing 🎨

#weaving #waywardweaves
#saoriweavingmethod

Already addicted to making natural cordage, a skil

Already addicted to making natural cordage, a skill that came much more naturally to me than spinning wool.

Love that I can make something useful and beautiful from a common plant, in this case Plantain. Such a strong structure, rich colour and shiny braids.

Already have several ideas on how to use this in my weaves and other projects.

When we think back to our ancestors, they were dependent on these skills and natural resources, using what was available rather than buying a synthetic alternative.

Bring back those days.

#traditionalskills #naturalresources #naturalcordage
#meadowplants
#ancientcraft
#mixedmediaartist
#fibreartist #weaving
#sustainableharvest #sustainableart

A wonderful, relaxed day at the Oxford Guild of We

A wonderful, relaxed day at the Oxford Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers learning how to use a drum carder which combs the wool, and in this case, also mixes colours.

Love this group - so many lovely people sharing ideas, skills, materials, equipment, but most of all, enthusiasm for all things fibre/textile arts.

@oxfordwsd #drumcarder #oxfordguildweaversspinnersdyers #sheepandwoolindustry #vintageskills #woolcarding #fibrearts #textiles #wool

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