Spring Newsflash
Join me in Devon UK or Putney, VT USA
Dear friends, here’s a quick extra from my desk in a pre-travel room full of suitcases, clothes strewn and ochres in boxes.
Found and Ground Course, UK
One place has become available at this year’s (5th Annual) Found and Ground course in Devon, UK, 22-26 June 2026, hosted by the wonderful Flora of Plants and Colour. If five days immersed in materials of Earth and convivial company takes your fancy, then click the link for details. Also, great veggie food and an amazing rural village hall with excellent amenities make the course feel festive.
Drawn from the Wild Course, UK
There are also just a couple of spots left on the following week’s Drawn From the Wild course, where we’ll dive into natural and ancient drawing materials, metal point, semi precious pigments and more. Some people are staying locally for both courses (and hopefully having a lovely weekend off down the beach in between!) If you’d like to know more, click the button.
USA visit
I will be visiting friends in the USA next week for 10 days and seeing a dear friend before his upcoming book and family commitments make such jaunts perhaps become a little more tricky. Adam Wilson is an amazing and inspiring friend, and his upcoming book This Book is a Gift is a beautiful thing that I can’t wait to help get out into the world. If you don’t know Adam’s writing, on which the book is based, then I encourage you to start here.
Public Pigment Picnic in Putney VT
After I see Adam, I’ll be at my dear friends In Situ Polyculture to meet up with colour pals and just hang out. For me, rest, sharing and relaxation with earth materials colleagues is so rare as we are far flung, so there’s just the occasional couple of hours when, say, Julie Beeler visited me in Bournemouth last year. We are having a ‘pigment picnic’, free, open to all and hosted at the awesome Putney Public Library in VT. So many great folks will be sharing colours, tannins, pigments, inks, methods, examples and most of all, encouragement to any of you who’d like to drop by. Refreshments will be available and everyone is welcome. Here’s the flyer. More of us are presenting than are on the poster so far and the latest info on who’s joining us will be up soon at the library’s website. I’ll be sharing egg tempera. You can bring your own pigments rocks or experiments to share and ask us questions. We’d love to meet you. No need to book.
That’s it! I just needed to let you know about all these good things. You can always:
