Foraging for Colour

Marissa Stoffer is an artist and educator whose work explores ecology, plants, and our evolving relationship with the natural world. Using foraged plants, she creates natural dyes and pigments through a practice rooted in scientific curiosity, slow craft, and deep connection to place.

Since 2021, she has led Foraging for Colour walks and workshops across the UK with organisations such as Great Place Falkirk, Connecting Threads: River Tweed, Leith School of Art, Canal & River Trust London, and West Norwood Cemetery.

Her cross-disciplinary practice spans painting, textiles, sculpture, installation, sound, and performance. Drawing on myth, animism, and esoteric philosophy, she often explores trees as central figures of memory and connection. Her materials and methods are shaped by the seasons, local ecologies, and sustainable practices—inviting a sense of kinship and wonder for the more-than-human world.

Marissa holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art (2023) and an MA in Fine Art from the University of Edinburgh (2014). Her work has been supported by Creative Scotland, Scottish Council, the Royal Scottish Academy, Lottery Heritage Funding, the Colart Materials Award, the Hope Scott Trust, and the Edinburgh Visual Artist and Craft Makers Award.