A two day workshop focussed on observed drawing and painting of seasonal plant forms, building into watercolour studies.
Beginning with blind drawing, the initial focus will be on learning to truly see. We will make drawn studies of plant forms and go on to create a foundational ground from which further personal work and watercolour paintings can emerge.
Extending from a tradition dating back to the earliest in both Western and Eastern art, and referencing the plant drawings of artists such as Jim Dine and Victoria Crowe, you will be encouraged to be spurred by a curiosity around the intricacies of nature.
“What excites Dine is the prospect of capturing not just the look of that stem, leaf or flower in all its particularity, at a defined moment or over a period of time, but of conveying a sense of its growth or decay as an organic substance…” Jim Dine.