UBU Botanicals

08/03/2021

Please migrate to my page BOTANICAL NOMAD to follow my work and play and get workshop info as I am exclusively posting there now.
Thank you! .

10/11/2020

Dear friends,
I am looking for eco-printing enthusiasts along the garden route to host workshops. My requirements are simple, a place to make fire, access to wood and water and someone to link me with the local community.
Let me know if you are keen,
Ira

02/11/2020

Ira, I attended your workshop on Saturday...it has changed my thinking.. an exciting overwhelmingly beautiful experience.Thank you so so much for sharing your knowledge with all of us so freely..lI am beyond grateful.I am an active working artist for the past thirty five years and have done many many many experimental adventures into the making of art but oh my word this has been the most exciting and has set me off on a journey of new discoveries and most of all the incredible mystical life of a plant always giving to us and even in their form and colour..thank you thank you thank you Gail Catlin

05/09/2020

Dear friends,
I started a group ECO-PRINTING, SLOW-STITCHING and NATURAL DYEING where you can all engage, share your projects and questions. Please join us there. I hope to launch a communal project as soon as we have a few more people.

I am also starting a new page BOTANICAL NOMAD which will be solely focussed on my products, my work and my nomadic journey discovering the magic and power of botanicals along the way. I would be very happy if you could join and support me there.

I will use this page, UBU BOTANICALS in future only for workshop information.

HOPE TO CONNECT SOON.

24/07/2020

Fynbos portraits on silk and upcycled calico.

18/07/2020

I love seeing what other artists are doing in other countries with eco-printing and dyeing. Love the differences (in approach, in plants, in results) as much as I love seeing the similarities, which feels a bit like home, like we are all connected.

Eco-printing and natural dyes by Amy Gilbert.
Extracting colours from nature, on the Kāpiti Coast.

06/06/2020

More Saturday revelations

06/06/2020

Saturday afternoon revelations

05/06/2020

Dear Friends, I am available for 1on1 workshops again. I am also preparing a little series of videos to help us share and enjoy the journey that is eco-printing even more.