Connect to medicinal plants through art
Join The School of Botanical Arts for a day of botanical art practise in the lush medicinal herb and flower gardens at Wyse Worts organic plant nursery
Botanical art has a long history of being used alongside recording and researching the medicinal properties of plants. This workshop will develop your understanding and knowledge of the plants in our gardens by connecting with them through drawing. You will experience how the artistic process itself can bring you into contact with the medicinal characteristics and nature of each plant.
You will be guided through observational and imaginative techniques to develop your artistic skills. Free up your creativity with confidence and build your own unique relationship with the plants you choose to draw.
Taking the time to draw a plant is an unforgettable experience. You will never struggle to identify or remember its name, but will instead carry its medicine deep in your body and your memory.
This will be a really lovely day of herbal exploration and a great opportunity to experience a day in this amazing project in Dartington where plants are intentionally grown for medicine - it will be healing, informative and a chance for you to strengthen your intuition and art skills.
Saturday
10am-1pm
£55 (a small materials list will be sent on booking)
Tutor: Eleanor Darley makes our relationship with plants the centre of her work as an artist and art therapist. She brings an in depth knowledge of how plants inform the creative process and consequently how art reveals the characteristics of plants and their medicine. She brings the work alive demonstrating through examples of art history, observation skills and imaginative techniques developed in her teaching and art therapy. She trained in traditional medicine in Mexico, Anthroposophical therapeutic art, and is founder of The School of Botanical Arts.
www.eleanorsara.com
Enquiries: artsbotanical@gmail.com
A little about wyse worts..
Wyse Worts is a small independent plant nursery based in Dartington, near Totnes set up by Melissa Harvey who grows a range of medicinal and culinary herbs and wildflowers. All plants are grown on site organically, many from her own saved seeds, or seeds bought from small companies. She uses re-used or recycled and recyclable pots, peat free compost and little else.
They have areas of herbs and wildflowers growing in different habitats, as well as some beds specifically growing herbs for harvesting and seed saving. "
