Today I am chatting with Lucila Kenny and Barbara Collé about COLOUR

Lucila Kenny is an Argentinean textile designer as well as a researcher focused on Natural Dyeing and the colourants produced by a range of plant species. As a natural dyer and educator she has worked with universities, art academies, fashion designers, biologists and artists exploring, preparing and producing plant colorants for dyeing, inks and paints.

Barbara Colle is a Dutch visual artist and philosopher, investigating our experience of colour. She publishes her findings through essays, artist books and visual essays. On the subject of colour she guest lectures at universities, contributes to publications and curates. 

The two have bonded over colour and perception through many conversations and collaborations, so it was very moving to be able to be a fly on the wall for one of their chats. We discuss how colour is changing all the time, and letting go of a desire to control colour when natural dying and while growing pigments. Lucila describes is as seeing that the plants are 'gifting' us, instead of what we want to take. They discuss the language we use to describe colour, and how it says so much about our relationship with it.

Links

Lucilla's website: https://www.lucilakenny.com/ | On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lucila.kenny/?hl=en-gb

Barbara's website: https://www.barbaracolle.nl/ | On Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/barbara___colle_/

Indigo website: www.growingblue.info

flower, fruit, leaf, husk and root (book): https://www.lucilakenny.com/shop/book

Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer

Elmer, by David Mckee (the children's book about colourful elephants)

The Color Kittens, Margaret Wise Brown (Barbara's children's book)

Eleanor Irwin, Colour Terms In Greek Poetry (1974)

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