Britt & Iris

Brittany Boles

Britt Boles is an artisan, indigo-doula, and educator tending dye plants and creating all things blue on the northcoast of Oregon.
"My practice is driven by an explorative source connection. The full circle soil-seed-sprout-pigment-vat transformation is what calls to me. ​Achieving blue fiber has become secondary, incidental art, as I have found the craft of the vat itself, the plant processes, and the communal blue kinship to be my fullest lived expression & inspiration."
Britt works collaboratively with other artisans, farmers, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 educators on projects including the Indigo Pigment Extraction Methods global network, Blue Biographies, Indigofest, & the Intuitive Indigo course.

Instagram @seaspellfiber

Iris Sullivan Daire

Iris is an installation artist and naturalist-dyer who uses site specific pigments and dyes to add new layers of meaning to the narrative of her work. She relishes using science, metaphor and story to bring the materials to life while teaching.

She lives with her family next to the Columbia River in Astoria, Oregon, growing traditional dye plants including indigo, and quietly mapping the hidden colors found within the native and invasive plants of the North Oregon Coast. She holds a BFA in fiber arts from University of Oregon, and has been teaching for over twenty years. Her website: Dream Bird Studio Iris’s article in Turkey Red Journal in early 2020 told tells the story of the Salal vat made for the first IndigoFest in 2018. With the demise of Turkey red, it can be read on her blog here.

Instagram @dreambird.studio & @naturalist.dyer