Description
Join artist Ellie Irons for a hands-on workshop creating and painting with watercolor paints from regionally-sourced wild and weedy plants. An artist talk and demo on making plant-based watercolor paints will be followed by an opportunity to experiment with the process in small groups. Responding to Ellie’s ongoing project Feral Hues on Estuarial Fill, throughout the workshop we’ll focus on the naturalcultural stories of plants whose green habitats are heavily impacted by human activities, drawing on Ellie’s work along the Hudson/Mahichannituck River in current-day New York State, and participants’ own experiences in current-day Baltimore and beyond. Copies of the book Feral Hues: A Guide to Painting with Weeds will be available for purchase.

Bio
Ellie Irons is an artist, scholar and educator living and working on Mohican land in current-day Troy, New York, USA. In December 2021, she completed a practice-based PhD at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY), focused on forms of ecosocial art that cultivate plant-human solidarity. She is currently the Co-Director of NATURE Lab at the Sanctuary for Independent Media. Her most recent publication is the book Feral Hues: A Guide to Painting with Weeds (Publication Studio Hudson, 2023).