Jenny Balfour-Paul

Jenny Balfour-Paul is an Honorary Research Fellow at Exeter University, and a Fellow of London’s Royal Geographical Society, the Royal Asiatic Society and New York’s Explorers Club. A writer, artist, lecturer and intrepid traveller, she is author of two books on Indigo, and a forthcoming book relating her adventures with a Victorian traveller and indigo planter. Jenny was consultant curator for the Whitworth Art gallery’s popular 2007 touring exhibition ‘Indigo, a Blue to Dye For’ and consultant for the American 2011 documentary film ‘Blue Alchemy: Stories of Indigo’.

Jenny is involved in research into dyes in shipwrecks, is a partner in 'Silk Road Connect', an educational initiative launched by cellist Yo Yo Ma's Silk Road Project in New York in 2009, lectures internationally and promotes revivals of natural dyes worldwide.

Publications/ Books/ Papers

She has numerous articles on her credit.