I am researching and distilling traditional botanical and earth pigments. Making paintings with the unique resonance and malleability of these fresh, yet ancient substances, feels like engaging with with live colour. Pigments: indigo, fustic, madder, cochineal, weld. Encaustic gesso. We see colours through light, yet light itself is invisible. Colours in painting are relatively two dimensional, while there is a phenomenal aspect to these environmentally sensitive colours that I seek to share.