Ffion Taverner is an artist who specialises in Natural Dyes which are often sourced from her surroundings in rural Wales and most recently in The Netherlands.
Having completed an Instructional Artist Residency specialising in Natural Dyes with Arquetopia in Peru 2019 which delved into the tradition of colour within Peruvian culture she has gone to deepen her knowledge of natural colour in The Netherlands. She has been running the dye studio and gardening at Studio Claudy Jongstra.
Working within such a slow medium creates an open-ended relationship to each ingredient sourced. She reads nature through colour, allowing her curiosity to forage and collect material; cooking up experimentation. Natural colour has incredible depth, working with historical natural dye plants and various local plants, this depth is portrayed with an embedded connection to the natural world.
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Ffion Taverner
UK
Education
2014- 2017 Manchester School of Art, BA Fine Art
2013-2014 Coleg Sir Gar, Foundation Art & Design
Exhibitions / Projects
2020
Workshop facilitator for Studio Claudy Jongstra at Parcival College, Groningen NL
Workshop facilitator for Studio Claudy Jongstra at Rijksmuseum Twenthe, NL
Tentoonstelling Claudy Jongstra, NINE & Cosmic Cry - Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden NL
Dyer and Project Coordinator at Studio Claudy Jongstra
2019
Workshop with Orchis Floral Design, Sheffield
Workshops with The Plant Room - Garden Sessions, Leeds
Workshops at The School of Sustainability, Bukky Baldwin Shop, The Whitworth, Manchester
Festival Decor at Lost Village Festival, Lincolnshire
Window display for Village Leeds, Leeds
Workshop facilitator at The Plant Room, Leeds
2018
In the altogether Botanical Life Drawing class - Goodstock, Manchester (Curation)
Meadows in the Mountains Festival, Bulgaria
FRESH - Rural Arts, Thirsk
Residencies
Instructional Artist Residency in Natural Pigments, Arquetopia, Cusco, Peru 2019
Artists Lock In 2017 Residency, ArtHouse Jersey 2017
Ballyvaughn Field Trip, Ireland 2017
Cyprus College of Art Summer School 2014
Features
Studio Claudy Jongstra at Museum de Lakenhal - (7 mins in)
https://www.theearthissue.com/artists/a-sculpted-land
https://ellamaidownes.wixsite.com/textiledesign/communcating-colour
The Skinny - http://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/emerging-artists/manchester-school-of-art-degree-show-2017 / June 2017