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Julia Manning exhibiting with PINE FERODA
Julia Manning RE ASWLA is one of the five members of the wood cut print collaboration called PINE FERODA. They have 2 exhibitions coming up at REBECCA HOSSACK GALLERY 2A CONWAY ST LONDON W1T 6BA...
View ArticleBen Woodhams SWLA posted about the Turkish Sweetgum Project
The Turkish Sweetgum Project Earlier in June I was lucky enough to be one of four SWLA (Society of Wildlife Artists) artists invited to take part in an EU funded partnership with Doğa Koruma Merkezi...
View ArticleJohn Busby seabird drawing course bursaries
We are starting to receive applications for John Busby seabird drawing course bursaries. These will be judged around mid October and the winners announced at the annual Natural Eye exhibition at the...
View ArticleSWLA printmaking courses 2016
Screenprint with Carry Akroyd – Sat 29th Oct Linocuts with Robert Greenhalf (assisted by Brin Edwards) – Sun 30th Oct Mono and Relief Prints with Kim Atkinson & Greg Poole – Sun 6th November Fuller...
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evelina flodstrom – bursary winner 2016
I never dreamed that I would get a bursary, especially SWLA and Seabird Drawing Course. And to my great surprise and happiness I actually won it along with two other artists for 2016! A little tense...
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David Hunt – bursary winner 2016
Standing on Bass Rock, looking up into a dark, ominous sky trying to take in the spectacle of thousands of Gannets reeling and swirling in the wind. The constantly changing shapes, sharp and angular,...
View ArticleDetails for The Natural Eye – SWLA Exhibition 2017 on the Mall galleries website
The Mall Galleries have updated their website with information on dates and how to submit to The Natural Eye – SWLA Exhibition 2017 Society of Wildlife Open Exhibition Call for Entries Submissions are...
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SWLA at British Bird Watching Fair 2017
The world famous British Bird Watching Fair attracts over 20,000 visitors over the three day event and the Society of Wildlife Artists is proud to be part of the experience. The impressive Art Marquee...
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Learn to draw birds in 30 seconds – The John Busby seabird drawing course 2017
Another great week long drawing course on the Firth of Forth. Our joint exercises getting more and more challenging with guest tutor Kim Atkinson inviting us to use sound drawing (clamour of kittiwake...
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Wynona Legg – bursary winner 2017
Receiving the news that I had won a bursary with the SWLA, I was so incredibly over the moon. The news was especially welcome having had to turn down a place on the seabird drawing course the previous...
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Tora Benzeyen – bursary winner 2017
Tora painting razorbills at St Abbs Head To be honest, I didn’t know anything about the SWLA and seabird drawing course until last summer & the Turkish Sweetgum Project (2016) . Meeting with the...
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Mono and Relief printing workshop with Greg Poole
Sunday 22nd October 2017 10.30 til 4.30 pm We will look at how printmaking can help to simplify and evolve ideas. The methods we will be using would be easy to set up at home, no press...
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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...
View ArticleUd i det blå – ‘the great outdoors’ – Field Painting course on Bornholm, with...
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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