Fruit a day workshop with Beverly Allen

A three day contemporary botanic workshop with mutli-award-winning artist Beverly Allen

This 3 day workshop will focus on the techniques for portraying different textures in botanical painting. Shiny or velvety, pitted or smooth, spiky or crinkly; fruits come in many textures, (as do all plants).

Build your watercolour skills with demonstrations of techniques from initial washes to dry brush detail and through individual instruction with an emphasis on the observation of light and colour to create texture and form.

Suitable for intermediate to advanced students, or those with drawing skills and experience in other media. 

Refreshments and Lunch provided

About your 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.

Price $400 members $440 non members

Contact

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