The Materials Institute provides teaching and practical work in the materials and methods of painting. There is equipment and materials for students to produce their own artistic materials such as various paints, wax-based crayons, primers and their own pigments. The pigment is produced from materials from nature, partly organic, which is taken from the plant kingdom, and partly inorganic, which comes from sand and stone. We also grow several different coloured plants here, especially woad, which produces the blue pigment indigo.
Workshop manager: Kristina Janni Ståhl