Conversations With Artists: Susan Martin

Online Talk with Artist Susan Martin

Date: Thursday 25th August 2022
Time: 7.00pm - 8.00pm
Place: Online via Zoom
Age: All ages
Cost: Free

Booking is essential for this event

Join us for the third episode in our new series of EcoCreatives ‘Conversations With Artists’. Every month for five months we will invite an artist/practitioner from a different part of the world to share their creative practice and exchange viewpoints in an informal online talk. All artists use locally sourced natural materials and natural dye techniques for their practice. By exchanging knowledge and experience, we aim to weave a wider network of practitioners and practices with our own community here on the West Coast.

In this free online artist talk, curator Naoko Mabon will be in conversation with Susan Martin, a Textile Designer specialising in natural dyeing, mainly using plants grown in her garden and collected from a local woodland in Pembrokeshire, Wales.

Susan's work evolves through developing colours from natural dyeing and teaching natural dye workshops. She is continuously fascinated by the potential of plants and is mindful of sustainability both of fibres and dyes. As an active member of the local gardening group, Sunsan leads the development and management of the dye garden at the National Wool Museum in Drefach Felindre. For the last five years, their dye garden has won the prestigious Green Flag Community Award which is given to the country's best green spaces.

This session is held via Zoom. An invitation link will be shared via email ahead of the event with all registered attendees.

Image credits:

Banner image: ©Susan Martin

Images in body of text (clockwise from top left):

©Stephen Martin, ©Non Mitchel, ©Susan Martin, ©Susan Martin

EcoCreatives: Series 1 Playlist

You can also watch all episodes from Series 1 of ‘Eco Creatives: Conversations With Artists’ on our YouTube channel.

Series 1 Artists:

1. Deborah Gray, Oban

2. Monica Haddock, Mull

3. Fernanda Mascarenhas, Brazil

4. Nanoko Suzuki, Japan

5. Boubacar Doumbia, Mali