In my work natural found and waste stream materials are used to make pigments, inks and paints. In their specificity to time, place and individual life, and in the labour of their making, the pigments become infinitely precious, a finite resource that can never be exactly replicated. Earth is dried and sifted; stones are pounded and washed; plants are simmered and laked. Found bones and fallen twigs are charred in the absence of air and reduce in the mortar to dusts dense with ghosts. Mixed with oil they are ground with a glass muller on the slab, and slowly, slowly, the material world becomes ink and paint, telling stories of its own. All materials are collected ethically, in small amounts, and only if they are to be found in abundance. Bones have been gathered over years; twigs fell in the last storm; wild plants are harvested after seeding. Robin Wall Kimmerer’s ‘honourable harvest’ is a guiding principle.