CONTEMPORARY NATURAL DYE ARTIST
Grace Frogley is a London-based contemporary dye artist working with natural colour as a material language, using pigments drawn from plants, flowers, seeds, bark, and food waste to explore how dye can sit within modern visual culture rather than outside it. What began with making tacos for friends and experimenting with natural dye from leftover food quickly developed into botanical dye workshops, immersive experiences, and collaborations with brands and creative studios.
At its core, the work treats natural dye as a living material practice, shaped by process, experimentation, and reuse. A key focus is reducing waste, reusing botanicals, and working with deadstock fabrics wherever possible, allowing materials to be extended, reworked, and reactivated rather than discarded.
This translates into work that shifts between material and meaning, reworking familiar references through natural pigment, such as England football flags dyed with hibiscus reds and constructed in deadstock silk, reframing how identity, craft, and colour can exist today. The work brings natural dye into urban creative spaces and everyday visual culture, making it accessible in a way that feels current and culturally present.
EXHIBITIONS
South East Artist Open Studios 2026
RBSA Gallery Summer Exhibition 2025
ST.ART Gallery Art Fair 2025
Bonnington Centre, Solo show “London Looks” 2025
SUMMER 2026
BOTANICAL DYE CLUB
The Botanical Dye Club experience is a guided, hands-on introduction to the art of botanical colour. Guests are invited to work with natural dyes derived from plants, roots and flowers, exploring the properties of botanicals and the process through which colour is extracted, transformed, and applied to natural fabrics.
Guests leave with their own wearable art: a personally dyed silk scarf carrying a direct trace of the materials, process and moment in which it was made.
During the experience, botanicals are steeped into a sweet iced herbal tea, served alongside the dye process as a sensory complement.
Where possible, I source deadstock silk, surplus fabric from design houses, and collect and repurpose the botanicals used, giving materials a second life and supporting a more circular economy approach.
PARTNERS
Natural dye commissions
made to order
What is a bespoke botanical dye piece?
A bespoke piece is a hand-dyed textile created using natural plant-based dyes and bundle steaming techniques. Each work is individually composed, resulting in layered, organic colour that is formed through direct interaction between fabric, botanicals and steam.
Can I choose the colours and design?
You can guide the overall palette and mood, but the final result is shaped by the natural dye process itself. This balance between intention and unpredictability is what gives each piece its depth, variation and individuality.
Are all pieces the same?
No. Every piece is entirely unique. Even within a shared brief or colour direction, natural dye processes produce subtle variations in tone, texture and pattern.
How are the pieces made?
Each textile is prepared with selected botanicals and natural pigments, then wrapped and steamed using a bundle dyeing technique. As the fabric steams, the colours are released and fixed organically, creating layered, unpredictable compositions.
What materials do you work with?
Pieces are typically created using natural fibres such as silk, cotton and linen, chosen for their ability to absorb and hold botanical colour.
For commissions, collaborations, or enquiries, please get in touch