Ocre Natural Dye Studio

Kayleigh Davis is a textile artist, facilitator and the owner of ocre natural dye studio whose practice focuses on naturally dyed silks. Immersed in nature from a young age, her work seeks to explore the impermanence and fragility of the natural world throughout the seasons by embedding foraged and grown pigments and prints into cloth. Her process is intrinsically meditative as she forages for seasonal botany around local woodlands and grows her own dye plants in a dedicated colour garden. Subsequently, the plants she embeds into her works are selected intuitively, often qualifying due to their ability, through form or colour to spark joy.

Kayleigh creates naturally dyed artworks, homeware and accessories. Each textile piece is born out of a lengthy and wonderfully tactile series of painted and layered natural dye processes, with the outcome yielded often wildly dissimilar from its initial appearance. Her pieces are living artworks whose pigments interact with their environment and change over time.