Botanical Inks is a natural dye studio based in Bristol, founded by botanical artist/designer Babs Behan.Offering small-scale natural dyeing services for designers and businesses, and a platform for re-skilling creative communities with local plant knowledge and contemporary traditional "low-impact" surface application techniques.http://www.botanicalinks.com/https://www.facebook.com/botanicalinkshttps://twitter.com/botanicalinkshttps://www.instagram.com/botanicalinks/

A 100% wool fabric of classic heritage-inspired design, prioritising locally sourced materials and manufacturing processes from the South West of the UK.http://www.bristolcloth.co.uk/Bristol & Somerset-based enterprises Botanical Inks, Fernhill Farm and The Bristol Weaving Mill Ltd join forces to produce the Bristol Cloth.The Bristol Cloth project showcases British heritage, preserving what this land has always offered and what British communities have done for centuries. We are set to prove that it is still commercially viable to make cloth on our shores, sustaining British tradition, culture, community, land and the economy.Bristol Cloth is made with holistically farmed and biologically washed wool from Fernhill Farm. Naturally dyed with organic plant dyes at Botanical Inks. And woven at the Bristol Weaving Mill, the first industrial loom to open in Bristol in nearly 100 years.By supporting this campaign, you can help re-create a local, resilient textile economy in the South West, offering an alternative to the unsustainable global textile production systems which have threatened traditional British cloths almost to extinction and critically damaged the health of our biosphere; Support regenerative agriculture which captures carbon from the air and locks it back into the soil whilst also replenishing soil health; Help recreate our ability to dye textiles using non-toxic plant dyes; and bring artisan textile production back into our local economy. We are thrilled to be working with Bristol based designers to provide an enticing selection of rewards for you to purchase to help us back this project. Brown In Town are offering tailor made mens jackets and suits, Jokoto Tailors have flattering ladies kimono jackets and accessories and oB wear is a clothing label focusing on making high quality, considered garments that shape with us over the years. Offering a choice of unisex zero-waste garments.

Illustration/painting with natural dye inks and traditional botanical paints on graphite on paper, locally grown +woven canvas; Extracting colour from the landscape with additional exotic natural colours for diversity.I teach non-toxic contemporary traditional artisan craft techniques via my business Botanical Inks.I also provide more holistic creative experiences, which combine consciously sourced materials and tools, with mindfulness, herbalism and ritual. Through my art and workshops, I hope to inspire and spread awareness of the potential for transitioning to non-toxic, plant-based, renewable and more sustainable creative practices, along with a holistic approach to creativity, which is healing, inspires new ways of sinking into flow, developing intuition and a sense of presence, clarity and connection.

Playsuits & Costume, made with up-cycled natural fibres.https://www.etsy.com/shop/theplaysuitparlour/

R+D Arts Curation role at SGP to source and manage onsite interactive arts in 2008.