Please Note: THESE ARE CHANGED DATES FROM PREVIOUSLY ADVERTISED! The Gloucestershire Society for Botanical Illustration includes a number of RHS medal winners in its ranks. Illustrating the world’s flora for scientific purposes continues to be the preoccupation of many artists. Fine examples in pencil, ink and watercolour are included in this exhibition. Meet members every day.
Butterflies are some of the most strikingly beautiful representatives of the natural world. The variety of colours and patterns make them objects of universal admiration. The paintings in this exhibition are by Ian Loe who has spent over 50 years observing and illustrating butterflies.
Art Course
withSophie Buckley 10am – 5pm
Maximum Participants: 12
Join Making Needle Felted Animals author Sophie Buckley, who will guide you through creating a needle felt garden bird using a special barbed needle and colourful merino wool. Learn about needle felt tools and materials, techniques including shaping, surface colouring, adding legs, facial details, symmetry and how to make the bird look realistic, as well as display ideas. You can choose to create any garden bird such as robin, blue tit, wren, magpie, woodpecker etc.
You will receive needle felt tools to take away, as well as lots of inspiration for your next projects!
Needle felt kits, supplies and signed copies of the book will be available on the day.
Course Cost
Members: £42
Non-members: £55
Course Suitability: Absolute beginner onwards
ART COURSE BOOKING FORM
Materials List Materials will be provided for a fee of £5.
Artist’s Profile During her degree in Contemporary Crafts at Falmouth University, Sophie Buckley found that as well as enjoying the process of creating, she also enjoyed sharing creative skills with others. After completing a course in workshop facilitation she moved to the Gloucestershire area where she met local creative Steffi Stern, and they have worked together ever since, writing the book Making Needle Felted Animals together which came out in 2015, and have created a business based around the book called The Makerss, through which they are able to share with others their enthusiasm for making, love of natural materials, and creative skills.
Art Course
with Ian Coleman 10am – 5pm
Maximum Participants: 12
The iPad is a great concept sketching tool for conventional paintings, creating hybrid digital images or full digital works.
On this 1-day course Ian will familiarize you with the application Procreate. He will go through its functions and you will learn how to, import and export your work, import brushes, create brushes and create artworks in various styles from graphic lines to photo-real brushwork.
Course Cost
Members: £42
Non-members: £55
Course Suitability: Absolute beginner – Improver
ART COURSE BOOKING FORM
Materials List IPad iOS 9.1 or later
Stylus
Chargers
Procreate App installed (currently costs £4.49 from the App Store as of Nov 2015. File size 95.9MB)
You will need to ensure that you have at least 1GB of space on your iPad, so that you can download content from the artist before the course.
Artist’s Profile Ian Coleman is a professional artist and over the last 32 years has produced gallery artworks in acrylics and oils, illustrations and graphic designs for books and advertising.
For the last 10 years Ian has run weekend courses on oil painting, watercolours and acrylic techniques. He is well known for his natural history paintings with a particular interest in marine-life.
Come and hear Ian Loe MBE talk about a lifetime looking for and then painting and drawing butterflies. This event coincides with an exhibition of his work. Event includes a finger buffet. PLEASE BOOK TICKETS IN ADVANCE.
Art Course
with Helen Lomberg 10am – 5pm
Maximum Participants: 12
On this 1-day course you will make Plant Climbers, Plant Supports, Trellises and decorative Garden Hurdles, all out of willow grown in Somerset and here in Gloucestershire.
Helen will guide you through each stage of the process, whilst introducing you to the different varieties of willow which you can use to make your creations unique.
By the end of the day you should have been able to make 3-4 items to take home to put in the garden.
Course Cost
Members: £42
Non-members: £55
Course Suitability: Absolute beginner – Advanced
ART COURSE BOOKING FORM
Materials List All materials will be supplied by Helen Lomberg, at the cost of £10 per participant, payable directly to her on the day of the course.
Artist’s Profile Helen has been working with willow for over 20 years. She currently teaches at Waterperry and Highgrove and has done so in Steiner Schools and Further Education Colleges as well.
In recent years she has set up the Gloucestershire Arts and Crafts Centre based in Gloucester where county based artists and craftspeople can sell their work directly to the public on the High Street and pass on their skills through classes. Helen sells her work from her shop in 4 College Court, Gloucester.
Informed by the special ‘A Passion for Butterflies’ exhibition in the museum galleries, get inspired by butterflies as a subject and spend a short while drawing and/or painting them
Art Course
with Jonathan Newey 10am – 5pm
Maximum Participants: 12
What is abstract/expressionism? Have you wondered what it is like to paint like an abstract/expressionist? Then join Jonathan Newey on a journey of discovery using nature as a basis for abstraction and expressionism. Using sketches derived from exploring the outside world or from photographs and books Jonathan will help you understand how to produce a piece of work using nature as inspiration. Subjects and skills covered will include sketching with pen, pencil and paint; how to extract the shapes from reality, using colour to convey mood and atmosphere, and learn how artists such as Jonathan produce their own abstract work from nature. No previous experience is necessary, just a willingness to listen, learn, experiment and not worry about the end result.
Course Cost
Members: £84
Non-members: £110
Course Suitability: Beginners – Improvers
ART COURSE BOOKING FORM
Materials List 1 x A3 drawing paper sketch book (preferably spiral bound which is easier to work with)
Any felt tips, crayons, pastels etc that you can find at home.
The tutor will bring the same but there may not be enough for everyone.
Paint and paper or canvas for your finished painting: It is your choice what you use to paint your finished picture with.
The tutor will be using acrylic but you can also use watercolour, collage and/or acrylic.
The tutor suggests that whatever medium you choose, do the picture on a relatively large scale ie: at least A3 or 18 inches square (abstracts work well as a square format)
Bring brushes, paint, palette (paper plates will suffice) tissues or rag, paper or canvas.
Both acrylic and watercolour can be painted onto watercolour paper.
There really is no right or wrong materials to work with. Acrylic will be slightly easier than watercolour but the important thing is the act of sketching and painting rather than the end result.
Artist’s Profile Jonathan Newey is an award winning artist with over 20 years of experience in teaching in adult education. He is experienced in a variety of mediums and styles and his abstract/expressionist work can be found on his website:
Art Course
with Andrew Forkner 10am – 5pm
Maximum Participants: 12
During the course we will explore how to achieve realistic detail and texture, using a controlled, multi-layered approach to working in pastel.
Course Cost
Members: £84
Non-members: £110
Course Suitability: Beginners – Advanced
ART COURSE BOOKING FORM
Materials List Reference photos or sketches of particular subject/s that inspire you.
Cartridge paper, pencils and tracing paper to create and transfer your initial drawing.
Pastel paper. (Andrew’s personal favourite is Hahnemuhle Velour, which can be purchased from the SAA): www.saa.co.uk/paper-board-canvas-card/paper-pads-card-blocks/pastel-paper-pads
A good selection of hard and soft pastel sticks and pastel pencils.
Artist’s Profile Andrew has been associated with Nature in Art now for over twenty years. During that time he has run numerous courses and in 2016 completed his 16th annual week as Artist in Residence.
As a professional artist he works in a variety of media, including graphite pencil, pastel and Chromacolour (acrylic). He has recently had his first book published which details his techniques for painting birds in Chromacolour and is currently working on a new book drawing birds in graphite pencil.
A fascinating display of digital artwork by Mark Ware that brings together art and science to explore how we respond to natural and built environments. It is one of a series of art science collaborations with psychologists and neuroscientists that are investigating the effects of the natural environment upon health and wellbeing.
