IRENE PAGRAM | DRAWING ON NATURE
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Monday 12 – Friday 16 January 2026
We’ll start by making eco-prints with gum leaves, weed species, and seasonal garden treasures, then combine them into beautiful botanically inspired artworks by drawing onto silk and watercolour paper, extending the eco-print outside the frame.
If you love botanical art and making observational drawing from Nature, and you’re interested to add eco-printing to the mix, then this workshop is for you. Bring all your pencils and watercolour paper and we’ll have fun. All levels
We’ll start by making eco-prints with gum leaves, weed species, and seasonal garden treasures, then combine them into beautiful botanically inspired artworks by drawing onto silk and watercolour paper, extending the eco-print outside the frame.
If you love botanical art and making observational drawing from Nature, and you’re interested to add eco-printing to the mix, then this workshop is for you. Bring all your pencils and watercolour paper and we’ll have fun. All levels
IRENE PAGRAM Bio
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After a 30+ year career in arts management, Irene Pagram established a studio practice in textiles and mixed media. She works with sustainable natural dyes on silk, wool and paper, often to make a ground for drawing, or a base for hand stitching. Eco-dyeing repurposed and fair-trade fabrics with renewable resources such as eucalyptus leaves and garden plants, weed species and vegetable scraps with the dye cauldron as mordant and fixative, sits well with her efforts to live in as sustainable a way as possible.
Her art embeds a personal narrative and a connection between us, our past and our surroundings. She is particularly interested in womens’ work and in the environment. She was the featured local artist at CrossXpollinatioN 2024, with ‘Pollinatrix’ - a body of work highlighting women of ideas in botany and horticulture.
After a 30+ year career in arts management, Irene Pagram established a studio practice in textiles and mixed media. She works with sustainable natural dyes on silk, wool and paper, often to make a ground for drawing, or a base for hand stitching. Eco-dyeing repurposed and fair-trade fabrics with renewable resources such as eucalyptus leaves and garden plants, weed species and vegetable scraps with the dye cauldron as mordant and fixative, sits well with her efforts to live in as sustainable a way as possible.
Her art embeds a personal narrative and a connection between us, our past and our surroundings. She is particularly interested in womens’ work and in the environment. She was the featured local artist at CrossXpollinatioN 2024, with ‘Pollinatrix’ - a body of work highlighting women of ideas in botany and horticulture.
