BAWW Workshop - Tanya Hoolihan - Botanical Illustration for Beginners

As part of the Botanical Art Worldwide 2025 activities BASA is holding botanical art workshops in the Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra ACT.

Tanya Hoolihan will be doing a 2 day Botanical Illustration for Beginners workshop in the Celia Rosser Studio at the Australian National Botanic Gardens on 24-25 April 2025 from 9:30 am to 4:00pm each day.

This workshop is designed to introduce students to the basics of Botanical Art. The workshop will include basic botany to assist in understanding your subject, methods used to depict the plants specific characteristics, and the techniques used in watercolour to achieve fine detail in your work.

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Materials provided will include:

Graphite pencils, drawing paper, erasers,

Basic brush set (Taklon) which students can take home

W & N paint to use throughout the workshop,

Palette to take home with any extra paint needed to complete the work

Arches watercolour paper A4 for experiments and final work

Workshops are open to both members and non-members of BASA.

About Tanya

Tanya Hoolihan holds a PhD in Natural History Illustration from the University of Newcastle where she received the Facility and Excellency Award for her Research. For several years Tanya was a lecturer in Botanical Illustration at Newcastle University where she gained valuable insight into teaching the subject. She has exhibited in various group and private exhibitions throughout regional Australia including several exhibitions held by the Botanic Art Society of Australia and has conducted workshops for various galleries and institutes. Her work is found in national and international collections, several books and publications as well as the Florilegium collection of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney. Tanya now works as a free-lance illustrator and teachers and has collaborated with clients such as the Newcastle City Council, Central Coast Council and CSIRO on various natural history projects.