The Illustrated Garden Journal
Workshop
The Avenue,
Exton,
Oakham,
Rutland,
LE15 8AH
Tel: 01572 813200
The Illustrated Garden Journal
Tuesday 5 March, 10am-12.30pm
The Illustrated Garden Journal: ‘Starting Out’
Talented local artist and wildlife enthusiast Val Littlewood leads the first in her brand new series of monthly art workshops at Barnsdale, on the theme of keeping an illustrated garden notebook. The classes will cover a wide variety of sketching and drawing styles plus simple printmaking and writing on the flora and fauna to be found in Barnsdale’s- and your own- garden. Classes can be taken individually or as a 10 week course and will build up over the months to produce a beautiful record of a year in nature.
Price £32 per workshop- book three or more together and get a 25% DISCOUNT. Basic materials available to buy on the day.
Booking essential! Call 01572 813200 or email courses@barnsdalegardens.co.uk
Val Littlewood Biography
Val has been an artist, illustrator, designer and lecturer for many years working for UK and USA publishers, the ceramics giftware industry and teaching many art subjects at all levels.
Most recently she spent a year recording and writing about the plants in the Botanical Garden in Orlando culminating in an exhibition of both the writings and drawing. Currently she lives near Huntingdon, teaching, drawing, painting, printmaking and trying to coax something out of her new heavy clay garden. She has a travelling show “BUZZ” which showcases 28 species of our wild bees and talks about bees and their conservation.
'The bees, the natural world, growing plants and recording what I see around me in both words and images is a never ending source of inspiration, and fascination. Recording from the natural world, in whatever medium you choose, opens your eyes to an extraordinary world of beauty, colour, ingenious design and intricate pattern. I am constantly learning and experimenting with new ways of working. Join me to explore and create.'
For more information and to see a gallery of Val's georgeous images, visit her blog: www.pencilandleaf.blogspot.com
