Jane Howroyd (Growing Colour Together)

With a background in textiles, Jane Howroyd has over 20 years’ experience working as a tutor and workshop facilitator, delivering socially engaged workshops.

Jane believes that creativity is truly beneficial for wellbeing and her work hopes to reach as broad an audience as possible.

Growing Colour Together is a project by WOVEN in Kirklees that we’re delighted to be supporting through artist mentorship and promotion.

This WOVEN in Kirklees 2023 project aims to create a district-wide, natural dye, colour garden. Everyone from Kirklees is invited to get involved, helping to create dye gardens anywhere and everywhere, working with six local and international artists commissioned to create events, installations and more for 2023.

Working in partnership across the district, WOVEN is giving everyone the opportunity to ‘have a grow’, use what’s grown to make natural dyes and learn about the environmental implications of chemical dyes and what we buy. A natural dye garden gives eco-friendly, natural dye pigments and stains for textiles, knitting yarns, and even artist paints and prints. We spoke to the artists involved…

What's your involvement in the Growing Colour Together project?

I’m one of the two local artists for Dewsbury on the Growing Colour Together project, together Waheeda and I are working in collaboration with Natalie who is the project’s non-local artist.

Why do you create?

I love to experiment, practice and learn new things which I can then share with others, so that they too can enjoy and learn new processes for creativity and investigation.

Do you consider yourself to be part of an artist network/community, and if so, how does this impact your practice?

Through WOVEN I have found a new network of artists, researchers and makers with a shared interest in textiles and creativity.

What changes would you like to see in the arts sector?

I think that continuing to make art and creativity accessible to all, should be the aim of the art sector. Art should be for all!

Jane’s links:
www.linkedin.com/in/jane-howroyd-4535ab12b
www.facebook.com/Art4AllYorks
www.twitter.com/Art4All_Yorks
www.instagram.com/art4all_yorks
http://janehowroyd.co.uk