Larissa & Stella Don - Mother & Daughter Print Team from South Africa have been creating beautiful bespoke prints on fabrics & other mediums like ceramics and leather for 2 decades using the waterarts techniques of marbling & suminagashi. They have also Mastered their hands at Eco Printing, Rust Printing, Lake Pigment Making and other weird and wonderful transfer techniques. A sort of Mixed media organically grows from this year by year.
They focus on the alchemy & chemistry & the unique reactions pigments yield when manipulated on water or cooked at high temperatures.
As water is their canvas and nature their alchemical indicator, the geographical water source & weather is of utmost importance for peak performance. This is why you will find their studio tucked away near the Lesotho Highlands where the humidity is low, the wind moderate, the pollution level almost zero, blissfully quiet and the water clean and soft.