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Painting in the Park: sketching wildfowl in St James Park with Robert...
Saturday 21st October 2017 11.00 am til 4.00 pm This workshop is all about drawing birds from life, using as models the collection of tame wildfowl in nearby St. James’s Park. We will have the use of...
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Screenprinting with Jane Smith SWLA
Thursday 19th October 2017 10.30 til 4.30 pm Jane Smith, author and illustrator of Wild Island, is a print-maker, specialising in screen printing. On this one day course you will learn the basics of...
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SWLA/SOC exhibition ‘On Migration’ 17th February-4th April 2018
Redwings by Kittie Jones The Society of Wildlife Artists’s will be holding an exhibition in the SOC’s Donald Watson Gallery, 17th February-4th April 2018. Donald was a founder member of the SWLA and...
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Kingcombe Meadows Project exhibition – 29th March to 5th April 2018
Kingcombe by Carry Akroyd In 2017 the Dorset Wildlife Trust celebrated 30 years of Kingcombe Meadows Nature Reserve, a beautiful mosaic of unimproved pasture, wildflower meadows, woodland and ancient...
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Ud i det blå – Field Painting course (picture: Ben Woodhams) Ud i det blå – Field Painting course on Bornholm, with Greg Poole and Ben Woodhams, Sunday the 9th to Saturday the 15th September, 2018 The...
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Helen Kennedy – bursary winner 2018
Over the past few years I have become more and more fascinated by the wildlife around my city home. The songbirds I watch from the window inevitably made their way into my artwork. A conversation...
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Lorna Hamilton – bursary winner 2018
John Busby in Drawing Birds, 2014, said ‘To copy from nature without resolving our own thoughts is a barren process’. I copied from nature for many years and when I applied for the John Busby bursary,...
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Liz Myhill – bursary winner 2018
The Seabird Drawing Course has been an incredible experience of total absorption into a subject and place. Its rare to have a period of being focussed solely on the simple daily rhythm of going out to...
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Adele Pound – bursary winner 2018
Receiving the bursary from SWLA enabled me to benefit from a unique and wonderful experience which I would not otherwise have had. The sites we were taken to were exceptional. In particular, the...
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Emily Ingrey-Counter – bursary winner 2018
As an artist who regularly draws in the field I was so delighted to be accepted onto the seabird drawing course. My primary aim for the week was to learn from others who love to draw and spend time...
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