Chelsea Physic Garden and Botanical Art with Mary Ellen Taylor
Join us for a conversation about botanical art with Chelsea Physic Garden’s Florilegium Society Chair, Mary Ellen Taylor.
During this event you will have the opportunity to learn a bit about botanical art history and it’s relationship to Chelsea Physic Garden, share images of paintings from our Florilegium archive, and Mary Ellen will guide us through a demonstration of how to paint a spring flower.
You are welcome to watch with your own watercolours and paint along at home, or simply use this time to ‘take notice’ and watch the beautiful process involved in creating botanic art.
Booking information:
Please note this is a remote digital workshop and will require you to use the video conferencing system “Zoom” Webinar.
You will be sent a link to the event on Friday 29 January and a reminder on the day. You will be muted on arrival and will only able to see the panelists, your video will not be visible. You will be able to participate and ask questions throughout using the ‘Chat’ and ‘Q&A’ function.
For recording only tickets we will send the recording of the botanical painting demonstration only, which will be approximately 25 minutes long, this will be sent to you after the event.
Organiser
Mary Ellen’s love for flora and fauna began in the Galapagos Islands and The Andes before she studied botanical painting with The English Gardening School at Chelsea Physic Garden. She was the Diploma Course Manager at The English Gardening School for 7 years and also painted in her spare time. Most of her artwork focuses on the plant’s relationship to its habitat, from places close to her heart. Mary Ellen is a practicing artist and delivers courses and workshops in London and for Heckfield Place in Hampshire.
In 2020 Mary Ellen became the Chair of the Chelsea Physic Garden’s Florilegium Society.