Harvesting Colour from the Garden with Juliana Bedoya
Channel: West Vancouver Memorial Library
Date: 2023-03-07

Recorded July 23, 2022.

Join community-engaged environmental artist Juliana Bedoya to learn how to extract colours from home grown flowers, food scraps, and other plant materials like roots and barks. You will learn the principles of colour extraction, the chemistry required to create your own palette from locally available plant materials, colour modifications, and the step by step process to make inks and watercolours.

Juliana Bedoya currently works in community-engaged environmental art practice, respectfully using ancestral skills and traditional knowledge that navigates across cultures. Mainly working with garden trims and invasive plants, her work also aims to support local ecological restoration to foster native ecology. She supports individuals and community groups to establish their own cultural significance through skill sharing, including all stages of ethically harvesting and processing raw plant materials for art-making and environmental art practice. Find Juliana on the web at @julianabedoya @plantsareteacher and @fibrekin.

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