Cypriot Earth Pigments
Natural Paint Making
Date → April 13, 2024
Time → 10:00 - 13:00
Place → Trikoupi 103, Old Town Nicosia
About the Workshop
In this 3 hour masterclass, participants will learn about the technology of paint and pigments, develop an understanding of different paint binders and their unique behaviours, and see a live demonstration on processing natural minerals from Cyprus into paint.
Presentation on paint & binders (40 min)
Live demonstration on processing minerals into paint (30 min)
Break (20 min)
Hands-on workshop making paint with Cypriot earth pigments (90 min)
Focus on Process
Paint is a mixture of colourful pigments and adhesive binders that together, provide artists with a unique and timeless mode of expression. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to make their own watercolour and casein paints using Cypriot earth pigments, experiment with their handmade paints, and take home their paint samples created in the studio. Join Fulbright artist and researcher Elisabeth Heying for this deep dive workshop about making pigments, binders and paints from the ground up.
Artist Bio
Elisabeth Heying is an artist, material researcher and educator. Her paintings explore place, landscape and surface as records of and containers for human experience. Born in Minnesota, Heying received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in 2022, and her BFA in 2015. She was the founding director of a state of the art facility called StudioLab, where she educated SAIC students on how to make and use traditional and modern painting and drawing materials between 2016 and 2022.
Heying spent 2022-2023 in Santiago, Chile working on a project exploring pigments, painting and place. She received a 2023-2024 Fulbright Award to conduct her project titled “Throughlines in the Cypriot Landscape: Pigments and the Essence of Place,” and is busy creating an archive of Cypriot earth pigments and a body of paintings exploring the story embedded in the landscape. She currently resides in Nicosia, Cyprus.
