Create your own workshop
Customize a bespoke one-on-one or small group workshop tailored to your experience, available for all ages. Spend time on the farm and in Jill’s barn studio learning to create artist-quality natural pigments, inks and paints from earth or botanicals. Delicious farm-to-table meals can be arranged for breakfast and/or lunch in the field or greenhouse.
Potential Topics Include:
- Lake pigments
- Wild & natural ink making
- Making natural watercolor
- Egg tempera
- Foraging for botanical inks
- Foraging for rocks, soil, and clay for color making
- Mulling your own paint
- Pigment processing
- Painting techniques with natural inks and paints
- Meditative, breath work painting
Email jill@farmandfieldny.com or submit the form to schedule time to chat about workshop options.
Where & When
- Jill’s barn studio in Chatham, NY on a serene 200-acre farm
- 25 minutes from Hudson, 25 minutes from Great Barrington, 2 hours north of Manhattan (accessible via Amtrak to Hudson)
Available all year round. Winter workshops are held in the warmth of the greenhouse or barn studio. Farm tours available.
Who it’s great for
Perfect for artists, nature enthusiasts and botany lovers of all ages. Expand with a farm tour and farm-to-table meals and it would be a day, perfect for a small corporate retreat add-on. No experience necessary.
Workshop Duration & cost
2.5 hours to full day(s). Cost starting at $175
Refund policy: Refunds are not available due to the long-term planning involved in our workshops. However, we offer credits that can be applied toward a custom workshop or a future workshop date.