Illustrating meadow flowers

This three-day course will celebrate the beautiful annual summer flower meadow at Cambridge University Botanic Garden.  Over the first two days, we will observe, draw and paint the cornflowers, poppies, marigolds, grasses and daisies growing in the meadow. This will include a talk on the wildflower meadow by Dr Raphaella Hull, the Garden’s Higher Education and Interpretation Coordinator. On the final day, you will use your sketches and skills to work on an illustration combining several of these glorious summer flowers.

Suitable for all abilities

Lizzie Harper is a free-lance natural history and botanical illustrator working in watercolour, pencil, and pen. She’s the illustrator of “The Hedgerow Handbook” and “Foraging with Kids, and her work is in “The Bumper Book of Nature” and “HarperCollins Flower Guide”.  She has also worked on flower identification charts for Field Studies Council, and illustrations for the Welsh Botanic Gardens. She works in her garden studio in Hay on Wye where she lives happily with a long-suffering husband and two lively children.