This presentation by local-artist Greg Chiykowski, will focus on how to make ink from foraged plant and tree material found in Richmond Hill.
Greg’s presentation will discuss how to find suitable plant material for ink making, the best times of year to harvest the materials, the ink-making process, and will have samples on hand to highlight the rich vibrant and sometime surprising colour of homemade inks.
Admission is free, and is restricted to the first thirty registrants, due to the limited seating.
Pre-register by emailing [email protected]
This project is a Recipient of the City of Richmond Hill Community and Cultural Grant.
Greg Chiykowski (https://artbygreg.weebly.com/) is a local artist who is a keen outdoor enthusiast with an interest in plants and trees. Over the past year and a half, he has discovered the thrill of making his own inks from locally foraged botanical materials such as black walnut, acorn caps, wild grapes, grape vine twigs, goldenrod, sumac, buckthorn, and coreopsis. In addition, he has also made inks out of other interesting materials including coffee, cabbage, avocado pits, drywall, carbon. copper pipe, indigo, and weld. (see painting above)
