Pure Pigments — The Colour Makers House, Britain's only medieval pigment alchemist
the Wonders of Natural EARTH Colours - Experience ONE
Experience 1 — Earth & Mortality: Natural Earths
The world beneath your feet has been making colour for eight thousand years.
The ochres, umbers, and mineral pigments of the North Pennines and Lake District are among the richest earth colours in England. In this experience, you will forage, process, and transmute them — from raw clay and molehill soil and fossilised sand dunes — into pigments of remarkable depth and subtlety. These are living relics. Each one echoes the ancient landscapes that formed them and the hands of artists who used them for millennia before you.
You will learn the historic process of levigation — the same technique used to refine colour since antiquity — and leave with pigments you have extracted yourself, transformed into the finest watercolours to take home.
Four Experiences: Natural Earths | Calcining | Blues and Greens | Alchemy Master
Natural Earth Experience No.1
Please choose your date and make a payment to secure your spot. These workshops fill up quickly and are limited to a maximum of four participants.
Of course, during the middle of the day, we stop for a buffet lunch and a chance to chat, which is included in the price.