I love teaching. I try to nurture beginners and build their confidence. Over the years, I’ve developed a fine-tuned skill for identifying what intermediate and advanced painters need to focus on to progress to higher technical levels.
My educational and professional background as an art teacher qualifies me to offer botanical graphite, watercolour, and coloured pencil classes; I’ve been dedicated to this genre in all three mediums for about twenty-five years. I have tutored individuals and small groups, and conducted group workshops in Canada, the U.S.A., Bermuda and South Africa. I have also led destination workshops in the UK, Italy, Morocco, and Spain.
Prompted by COVID-19 travel restrictions, I now also conduct online workshops and 90-minute Tech Talks. You can learn more on my dedicated botanical education website at www.botanicalart.education.
I hold nothing back when teaching, guided by something Annie Dillard said: “The impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive.”
Upcoming workshops and Tech Talk schedule:
I now list upcoming workshops on my dedicated botanical art education site; you can access it here.