All the Flowers: An Artist Talk with Samuel Spurrier
A BIMA PRISM PROGRAM
Part of Handwork 2026
Sit down with exhibiting artist Samuel Spurrier for a conversation about the inspirations, materials, and deeply personal process behind his BIMA exhibition, All the Flowers. The program opens with a curator’s introduction by Greg Robinson and a short film screening that offers a glimpse into Spurrier’s distinctive artistic practice.
Then, in conversation with BIMA Director of Learning & Engagement Jenna d’Anna, Spurrier will explore how his three enduring passions for gardening, nature, and fabric have intertwined over the past decade in his work. Beginning with the soil itself, he transforms botanical dyes and flowers into richly layered textiles and expressive inkblot compositions using a technique known as klecksography. Drawing on years of experience in floral design, Spurrier’s work embraces lush color, organic forms, and repetition as both an artistic expression and a way of staying grounded in the present moment while deepening his connection with the natural world.
Audience Q&A and reception to follow the Artist Talk.
When
3:00pm – 5:00pm
Where
Bistro
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ABOUT SAMUEL SPURRIER
Samuel Spurrier is a fiber artist, pattern maker, and botanical dyer living in Bainbridge Island, Washington. He studied pattern making at Apparel Arts in Oakland, California and apprenticed under botanical dyer Monica Medeiros. His love of nature and flowers comes from his childhood in upstate South Carolina. There, his grandmother Frankie showed him the joy of color found in blooms and his grandfather Big Sam instilled a reverence for nature that comes through in his art.
Spurrier grows and forages all the botanicals used in his work on Bainbridge Island. Specializing in eco-printing, a sustainable natural dyeing technique that permanently transfers the pigments and tannins of the flower and leaf directly to the fabric, he incorporates his love of gardening and his passion for textiles to create work that pulls the viewer into a world all its own. Clothing, embroidered tapestries, and artist’s books made from his dyed fabric all explore themes of our connection to nature and our place in the universe. His aim is to capture the fleeting beauty of the blooms of summer—a season on the Island that is brilliant but brief.
BIMA’s PRISM programming is where art comes alive, off the walls and onto the stage. From films and concerts to artist talks and community celebrations, PRISM expands what it means to be an art museum through regular, engaging live events on BIMA’s stage, in its galleries, and outside the museum.
THANKS TO OUR FALL 2026/WINTER 2027 EXHIBITION SPONSORS
