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Botanical Focus Intensive Workshop with Beverly Allen

  • 26 Oct 2021
  • 9:30 AM
  • 29 Oct 2021
  • 4:00 PM
  • Where Maiden Theatre Royal Botanic Garden, Mrs Macquaries Road Sydne

A four day contemporary botanic art class with multi-award-winning artist Beverly Allen.

This four day workshop will build your watercolour skills for botanical painting on paper with demonstrations of techniques from initial washes to dry brush detail and finishing, and through individual instruction.

Working on one subject the emphasis will be on close observation; accurate drawing, the many subtleties of colour and the use of light to create a three dimensional painting. Suitable for intermediate to advanced students, or those with drawing skills and experience in other media. 

Includes refreshements and lunch

About the tutor: Beverly Allen
Beverly worked as a graphic designer and illustrator before moving to botanical art in 1997. She has shown annually at the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney ‘Botanica’ Exhibition since 1999, and exhibits internationally. Her work is held in private collections including the Shirley Sherwood Collection and the Isaac and Alisa Sutton Collection, as well as at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation USA, the Royal Botanic Gardens Herbarium Library at Kew Gardens, the Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Library, the Highgrove Florilegium for the Prince of Wales’ Charitable Trust and the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Sydney.

Beverly was awarded a Gold Medal at the Royal Horticultural Society’s exhibition in 2007 and in 2010 was awarded the inaugural Gold Medal for Botanical Art by the New York Botanic Gardens.

She co-founded and is president of the Florilegium Society at the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney.

Foundation and Friends of the Botanic Gardens
foundation.friends@botanicgardens.nsw.gov.au

0202 9231 8182

The Botanical Art Society of Australia Inc.
PO Box 3382
Exeter NSW 2579

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