Botanical Painting - Houseplants: A Focus on Foliage

Name: Botanical Painting - Houseplants: A Focus on Foliage
Start: 2026-01-23T10:30:00+00:00
End: 2026-01-25T16:30:00+00:00
Location: RHS Garden Rosemoor

Schedule

Fri, 23 Jan, 2026 at 10:30 am to Sun, 25 Jan, 2026 at 04:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

RHS Garden Rosemoor | Bideford, EN

Spend three days immersed in botanical watercolour painting, learning and developing your drawing and watercolour painting techniques to produce your own piece of botanical art. Laura Silburn, three-time RHS Gold Medal Winner and a regular tutor at RHS Rosemoor, will demonstrate and explain the step-by-step process used by botanical artists to record and showcase a specimen. This workshop will focus on houseplants, and in particular, the bright, vibrant foliage that they exhibit at this time of year. Coinciding with the RHS Rosemoor Houseplants Weekend, there will be plenty of plants to draw from.

Tutor: Laura Silburn is an RHS Gold Medal winner with both Best Exhibit and Best Botanical Painting awards. She has taken part in Botanical Art projects around the world including the Transylvania Florilegium and the Grootbos Florilegium project in South Africa, and is in several international collections such as the Shirley Sherwood collection shown at Kew. Laura teaches extensively in the South West and works mainly from private studios in Heligan Gardens in Cornwall, as well as teaching across the UK and abroad.