A TIME TO PAUSE AND CONNECT

Annie’s writing and workshops invite a pause. And an exploration of possibility. Her workshops bring people in touch with place, themselves and each other, through the joy of finding and playing with natural pigments.

Leaves, barks, lines on the land, become stories on a walk - using plants for ink.

Powerful words for the Birrarung - a climate action project using ecoinking techniques.

ABOUT

Annie is the author of Artworking, honouring tremendous loss (2025), and Death, a love project (2019). She offers workshops and projects that celebrate each person’s creativity and the beauty of nature. Annie teaches how to make and use natural pigments, and also how to make small books. Her projects flourish where communities gather: in libraries, neighbourhood centres, hospitals, aged care, and at festivals.

EXPLORE

Upcoming workshops

Projects

Ros’ notebook

MY BOOK

The reality of transience and impermanence is key to all my work.

In my book Death, a love project I bring years of experience as an end of life companion to guide you through the practicalities of end of life rituals so you can create healing love projects that help everyone grieve.

Workshops - Bookmaking - family book.jpg
Homepage portfolio - ecodye - oxalis.jpg
Homepage portfolio - inking.jpg
About - bookmaking - makers hand.jpg
Project - Pillowtalk - Walnut dyed pillow.jpg
Eco-inking by the Birrarung.jpg
Workshops - KIds book - water.jpg

What people say ...

  • “Annie guided a group (ages 7-70) on a discovery of the wetland to reveal wondrous colours & textures of nature in a place that has often been regarded as a wasteland. So much fun! Client, Friends of Altona Wetland.“

  • “Annie gets you to slow down and consider what's right in front of you. I think we're all craving this. Having her as a guide to stop and listen and look and touch and break things down and build things up again is very connecting. Participant, Eco-inking in the garden”

  • “You don't as an adult get to play very much. I had a great time just playing and experimenting with different things, and coming up with ideas to take away. Eco-dye participant. Participant, Eco-dyeing at Ceres”

  • We witnessed each other doing such different things ... experimenting. How did you do that? I love the focus that comes from gathering and learning quickly through experimentation.

  • Lots of surprises - that there are amazing possibilities from a simple plant and that Annie's stories of pigments connected to medieval times.

@annieartworking

Check out my instagram for more about Artworking, honouring tremendous loss, and natural paints and dyes. 

As healers, we grapple with the themes in my writing .. I'm honoured to hear that my efforts to represent the space of life, loss, grief, death and colonisation have met so many readers just in this first week 💛 #Artworkinghonouringtremendousloss #
Done and dusted 🎶 😊🎶 Most wonderful book launch ever.💛 Hall mark of success? Everyone was so immersed that there are no photos!! I went by @eastcoburgandnewlands yesterday to wash off the traces of ANNIES LAUNCH. Heart of companionship gold.
Are we organised? Out-there? 💛 Yessss! Launch of 'Artworking honouring tremendous loss' coming up on Sunday. & don't hesitate to preorder on link in bio! Can't wait to share the book and the Quirky Cats with you! @eastcoburgandnewlands #melbo
Just a week away 🥳 hope to see you there!
Layers and layers. In 'Artworking honouring tremendous loss,' I say, "Things can go wrong with grief." That was true for me after tremendous loss, and it took a long time to heal. An early section of the book outlines training Grant Broadb