Spring Florals: Watercolours & Illustration Workshop - An Introduction

Spring Florals: Watercolours & Illustration Workshop - An Introduction

Create your own seasonal botanical watercolour & illustrations: 2 creative mornings in the beautiful Walled Gardens

By Festina Lente CLG

Date and time

Starts on Sat, 15 Feb 2025 10:30 GMT

Location

Festina Lente

Old Connaught Avenue A98 F702 Bray Ireland

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 7 days before event

About this event

  • Event lasts 2 hours 30 minutes

A two morning immersive study in Festina Lente Gardens - guided by Irish Botanical Artist, Patricia Morrison.

Saturday 15th and Sunday 16h February, 10.30am - 1pm each day

€55 for Two Mornings

Learn to observe/draw and paint your favourite Spring flowers from the beautiful walled gardens at Festina Lente, Bray. Botanical artist Patricia Morrison will guide you through the process, with demonstrations, advice and personal materials list along the way.Snowdrops and Daffodils...oh and Hellebores..mmmm.Materials provided .Three more workshops to follow through the year


  • Connect with your selected seasonal plants– and end up with your very own watercoloured painting to take home
  • Explore the practice of observing in detail the characteristics of flowers, shrubs, trees and plants in the beautiful walled garden at Festina Lente and then enjoy creating a study in pencil and/or watercolour !
  • Demonstration and guidance on techniques of drawing, illustration, painting, mounting, framing, and plant identification
  • Materials supplied and refreshments provided


To view work by Patricia Morrison, you can view her work with the Irish Society of Botanical Artists here: https://www.irishbotanicalartists.ie/members-gallery/patricia-morrison/

For More Information Email: events.workshop@festinalente.ie


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Festina Lente CLG

Festina Lente is a not-for-profit organisation provides a unique range of equestrian and horticultural activities, training, recreational events and employment services options with a strong emphasis on social inclusion, choice and personal development.

We have a variety of public services and facilities for everyone to enjoy on our campus in Bray – an Equestrian Centre offering lessons, camps and equine assisted programmes, a beautifully restored Victorian Walled Garden where we host lots of fun seasonal family and events, children’s workshops and birthday parties and gardening workshops,  a Garden Centre, an open air snack bar and shop so why not pop along for a visit.  Keep an eye on our Events Calendar for upcoming events!

We are also an education centre offering QQI accredited educational training courses:

We also offer other Equine Assisted programmes:

All activities encourage individual choice, personal development, achievement and progression and we are a registered Irish Charity.

Saol Anois is also a day service run by Festina Lente in our campus.  The Saol Anois Day Service is funded by Health Service Executive and it was set up in 2005 to meet the support needs of adults with intellectual disabilities and/or dual diagnosis.  It is a supportive and therapeutic service designed to meet the needs of people through individual plans. Service users have the opportunity to access a range of integrated developmental and leisure opportunities.

Our campus is situated in the grounds of what was once Old Connaught House, formerly the residence of the Plunket family. Read more on the History of Old Connaught House & Gardens and Festina Lente Foundation.  Festina Lente (Latin) means Hasten Slowly and is the Plunket family motto. We adopted this as the name of our organisation in 1995 because it conveys our culture perfectly.  Festina Lente was founded in 1988 by Mary Rachel Brophy; her aim was through social and economic inclusion, to support those most at risk.  The result of all of the Festina Lente’s hard work is the wonderful garden and state of the art Equestrian Centre which are available to the public to enjoy whenever they want.