I knew before starting this piece that I wanted to give the impression of looking through a meadow into the flowers, rather than a traditional bunch of flowers…

The first piece that I painted for the Diploma Portfolio was of a beetroot. I was first struck by the colours in the leaves when I was at a local farmers market…

A short post about Assignment 11 - ‘Mixed Floral’…

Assignment 10 was entitled ‘Working from Photographs’. We were supposed to take our own photographs, and create a design in the form of a greetings card or poster…

For this assignment we were asked to find a location we liked, any natural habitat, and study, record and illustrate the species that were present…

I was really excited about this assignment. Botanical illustration, what the course is all about… When you sign up for a 27 month course, life is bound to throw changes and challenges your way during that time…

Assignment 7 involved painting a vegetable. I wanted to paint something a bit obscure and interesting… In the end, I settled for something really simple. Onions…

Assignment 6 of the Society of Botanical Artist’s Distance Learning Diploma involved painting a fruit of our choosing…

Assignment 4 was a fun assignment, the first opportunity to use a lot of colour after the first two graphite assignments and then all the greens in Assignment 3…

I feel like I have a lot of news to share and catch up on. I’ve been accepted onto the Society of Botanical Artists Distance Learning Diploma: a big decision for me that has led me to take a year out of my medical studies…