Workshops
Painting with Botanical Pigments
Sudha Palepu
Image credits: Sudha Palepu
‘Painting with Botanical Pigments’ is a mellow, beginner-friendly pigment-making session on extracting colours from botanical sources. It will be an opportunity to slow down, take a close look at colours in their natural form, and witness them transform on paper! During this workshop, participants will learn to extract inks and pigments from select botanical sources using simple techniques.
There will be demonstrations of these techniques, followed by guided hands-on colour-making by everyone attending. Upon making the colours, each participant will get to paint with the extracted inks and pigments on paper and take home their artworks at the end of the session.
This event is in conjunction with Paper Gardens: Art, Botany, and Empire.
‘Paper Gardens’ marks the continuation of a sustained, years-long collaboration between MAP and Impart — an online platform fostering greater public engagement with the art and cultural histories of South Asia.
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Sudha Palepu
Sudha Palepu is a designer who works with natural pigments sourced from botanicals and minerals. She began working on projects in the culture interpretation sector as an exhibition and communication designer since completing her Bachelors in Exhibition Design from NID, Ahmedabad. Continuing with her interest in the cultural sector, she attained her MA in Global Creative and Cultural Industries at SOAS, University of London.
In 2019, Sudha was awarded the Getty Graduate Internship Grant to pursue a one-year rigorous graduate internship at the J Paul Getty Museum’s Design Department. Currently, her art and design practice in creating pigments and artworks from natural dyes and minerals is called Pans & Spaces, where she combines her interest in science, with her experience in visual & spatial design.
