Tutoring & News

• Sept 2021 - My new online modules with Aberystwyth LLL will be: 'Botanical Illustration 1', 
  'Drawing Seedheads in Graphite',
  'Drawing for Well-being',
  'Watercolour for Everyone,
  Click here to enrol or for more information and a materials list contact me on ckbotanica@gmail.com  
   

• July 2021 - A new module, 'Illustrating Dragonflies' begins on the 31st. 
   

• April 2021 - New online modules with Aberystwyth LLL:
  'Drawing for Well-being', 
  'Illustrating Insects',
  'Mosses, Liverworts & Lichens', 
  'The Kitchen Garden​ - back to basics, for Beginners in Botanical Watercolour'. 
  The modules are assessed, with feedback given throughout and they are extremely good value at £45, due to the Universities funded assessment system.

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• Feb - 2021 - New online modules starting in February:

        'The Kitchen Garden​ - for Beginners in Botanical Watercolour',

        'Illustrating Feathers' and 'Watercolour for Everyone'

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• Oct - 2020 - Starting a program of various courses around Ceredigion, Powys and Pembrokeshire, as a tutor with Aberystwyth Lifelong Learning, which is celebrating their 100th birthday this year! The modules I will teach will now be via distance learning due to Covid; including 'Illustrating feathers', and 'Drawing seed-heads in graphite'

• 3 - 8 May 2020 - SBA residential course at Plas Tan Y Bwlch in Snowdonia - with Simon Williams & Claire Ward -  'Botanical sketchbooking' - Learn how to make a botanical sketchbook study page and work it up to a final painting. Sketching, drawing, painting & colour fundamentals presentations and demonstrations.
  Unfortunately this course has been postponed due to the Coronavirus situation.

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• Oct - 2019 - Started on the 'Waxcaps of Wales' conservation project by Plantlife

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• Aug - 2019 - Commission of Strawberry and rhubarb paintings for Liberté Yoghurts in Canada

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• May 2019 - Workshop on ‘Botanical sketchbooking’ for the Irish Society of Botanical Artists at Dublin Botanical Gardens; we covered every aspect of ‘sketch-booking nature’ including how to make your own sketch-books from scratch.​