COURSES
Botanical
Painting Course
with Billy Showell BA SBA
Friday 14th May 2010 |
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Billy
is very keen to encourage beginners and teaches
by demonstration and sympathetic individual instruction.
This one day course is suitable for those with or without botanical painting
experience.
It will be a wonderful chance to paint some of the beautiful plants at
Pashley Manor, with inspiration from the venue itself. |
Billy is a botanical artist with a strong sense of individual design
and composition, she is known and teaches worldwide and has written
and illustrated two books, Watercolour Flower Portraits (Search
press 2006) and her recently published Watercolour Fruits and
Vegetable Portraits (Search Press 2008), her work is also
featured in the SBA’s (Society of Botanical Artists) two
books The Art of Botanical
Painting (Collins 2004) and the Botanical Palette (Collins
2007).
Billy has been awarded
six Certificates of Botanical Merit from the SBA
in consecutive years
and her work is held at the RHS Lindley Library
and the Hunt institute in the USA and in many private
collections. Billy has also been invited to teach
at the American Society of Botanical Artists at
their Conference in 2010.
To visit Billy Showell’s website please click here. |
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Two Day Flower
Painting Course
With Valerie Baines F.L.S. , F.S.B.A.
Thursday 7th and Friday 8th October 2010 |
A two day course for those who wish
to learn helpful techniques, develop their talent and
to create a water-colour painting or study of seasonal
plants from the beautiful gardens at Pashley Manor.
Valerie Baines, a local artist with a life-long interest
in drawing and painting flowers and fruit, has tutored
many flower painting courses at Pashley Manor Gardens.
She is a founder member and past Vice-President of the
Society of Botanical Artists and her work has been exhibited
widely in Britain; at the Royal Academy of Arts and the
Royal Horticultural Society, and internationally; with
work permanently on show at the Hunt Institute for Botanical
Documentation in America. Her paintings are also in many
private collections.
To see Valerie Baines' website please click here.
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Booking is essential,
places are limited to 12 people per course so book early
to avoid disappointment. For more information and a booking
form please call 01580 200888 or Email katewilson@pashleymanorgardens.com.
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