Process

My methods are completely environmentally friendly and sustainable.

I work by one rule: never take anymore than is needed and always leave enough for the environment. I don't use any chemicals or toxins in my work and everything is safe to be composted back into the ground.

I love to forage among the hedgerows and local woods or fields around me and pick up naturally fallen leaves, berries or flowers. Friends and family also kindly supply me with spent florals from their summer gardens.

I have also worked with restaurants, their useable food waste is a sustainable way to cut down their wastage and provides me with a source of beautiful colour.

There are lots of ways to use sustainable methods and reduce impact on the world around us. To reduce energy wastage i use patience rather than heat in a lot of my dye baths and mordanting. Water from an exhausted dye bath is used for irrigation and mordanting baths are reused and regenerated.

I only use eco friendly soaps and detergents so the waste can be disposed of in the compost heap safely.

... It really is Alchemy!