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Botanical Drawing: Summer Fruits

Friday 27 July 2012

Don’t miss this one day botanical illustration workshop suitable for all abilities.

Working with specimens from the garden, create accurate botanical studies with guidance from professional botanical art tutor Leigh Ann Gale. Learn the art of accurate observation and composition, and experiment with different media including pencil, watercolour, pen and ink, and coloured pencils. Throughout the day Leigh Ann will be on hand to show you various drawing and painting techniques to help you achieve the detail required for this beautiful art form.

If you don’t have any art equipment, Leigh Ann is able to provide pencils and paper for drawing and painting as well as ink pens and coloured pencils. However, if you wish to paint in watercolour, please provide your own paints, brushes and palettes.

Leigh Ann Gale trained at The English Gardening School, Chelsea Physic Garden, and since graduating in 2004 has become a Fellow of the Hampton Court Palace Florilegium Society and an RHS medallist. Her work is featured in The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Pittsburgh, USA and included in many private collections both in the UK and abroad. As well as painting, Leigh Ann now teaches botanical art throughout Sussex, Surrey and south east London. For more information visit www.la-botanicalart.co.uk

Cost: £60 (£55 each for two booking together) – to include a delicious light lunch and a glass of wine.  This is a daytime event starting at 10am and finishing at 3.30pm. Spaces are limited, so give yourself a spring treat and book early!

Location: The Garden House, 5 Warleigh Road, Brighton BN1 4NT

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