Author: liz
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Living Colours @ Studio
Private sessions for cozy groups at our studio. Dependent on both of our availabilities.
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Light to Night 2023
Light to Night 2023 As part of the Light to Night 2023 Festival, we hosted a “Divination with Plants” painting booth at the atrium of Asian Civilizations Museum for members of public to get up close to 4 special plants through their colours and messages. An estimated number of 200 participants came by the booth.…
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Tracing Ripples Community Art
Tracing Ripples “Tracing Ripples” was inspired by the vibrancy and life around the rooftop pond at the hospital, one of the spaces the patients liked to visit. Over a few weeks, we facilitated the co-creation of an intergenerational artwork with elderly patients at Ng Teng Fong Community Hospital and the eco-club students from Commonwealth Secondary…
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Indigo
Indigo Blue Made with the leaves of the Indigofera tinctoria Our handmade watercolours are all available on our Etsy store. The Indigo blue has a deep, calming tone, perhaps reflective of the fermentation process that transforms the deep green leaves into a luscious blue pigments. Our growing pots of Indigofera tinctoria are possible thanks to the people from Studio…
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SG Seeds Exchange
SG Seeds Exchange Artworks A series of paintings with natural inks from edible plants in Singapore. From top left to bottom right: tamarind seeds, mugwort leaves, snakeweed flowers, magenta leaves, noni roots, mangosteen shells, mango leaves, malabar spinach fruits.
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library@orchard
library@orchard Artist-in-Residence We were invited to be library@orchard’s Artist-in-Residence during April 2022. Read more about it here. We hosted a couple of community sessions, opening up the space to members of the public who were curious about working with dye plants found in Singapore. It was a delightful experience for us to connect with individuals…
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Strokes and Fibres
Creating canvases through interlocking patterns. Expanding beyond our interest in plant colours, we move into canvas-making with natural fibres. The process is completely different, yet the patience required to work with each is similar. The desire to blend the fibres with a machine is strong; we realize it yields more uniform and personally, less interesting…
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Living Colours
A ongoing series of mini-artworks made simply with plants residing amidst us. The abstraction of plant shapes mean to draw the audience’s eyes closer to the colours and textures of the natural inks rather than exact form itself. This blurred form is guided by the natural shift in tones with time, and the intentional pH…
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Bringing Natural Pigments to Preschools
As part of the preschool’s efforts in moving towards more sustainable art activities for their learners, we were engaged to run a workshop to train their educators in noticing and using earth pigments found in their own garden space to make watercolours. Here are what some of the educators shared post-workshop: “I just finished your Wild…
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Botanical Inkmaking Workshop with STPI Gallery
Inspired by artist Charles Lim’s and botanist Boo Chih Min’s previous work “SEA STATE 9 : proclamation garden”, Wild Dot was asked to conduct a site-specific inkmaking workshop using plant species that thrive along reclaimed coasts at Changi Beach. Participants were invited to engage in the craft of noticing, harvesting, and working with natural pigments…