Floral Impressions

Name: Floral Impressions
Start: 2025-02-23T12:30:00+13:00
End: 2025-02-23T14:30:00+13:00
Location: 101 Glenmore Street, Wellington, New Zealand 6012

Schedule

Sun Feb 23 2025 at 12:30 pm to 02:30 pm

UTC+13:00

Location

101 Glenmore Street, Wellington, New Zealand 6012 | Wellington, WG

Inspired by French impressionist painters such as Renoir and Monet, Friends of Wellington Botanic Garden's Artist in Residence Mary will show you how to create your own small piece of art that can be inserted into a card or framed.
We will release the dye in flowers and leaves into fabric by pounding. The resultant design will be emphasised with simple stitches in matching colours.
Only small amounts of flowers need to be used, we will provide some for you. However, if you have any of the following in your garden you are welcome to bring them, pansies, violas, wallflowers, dandelions and puha, lobelia and geraniums.
A fabric pack, including cotton lawn and felt, will be provided with a needle. A good range of stranded cotton will be available for you to select from.
Most suitable for ages 12+ and confident in threading a needle.
Located in the Treehouse Seminar Room, Wellington Botanic Garden ki Paekākā.
Mary Self is the Friends of Wellington Botanic Garden Artist in Residence 2025. The residency is from 1 February to 31 March, and she will spend Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the Treehouse and other parts of the gardens sharing her stitched art with visitors. "Flower and plants have been depicted in art in very many ways. Some of my favourites are the simplified forms of the millefleur in Medieval tapestries, the rich Dutch Still Lives of the 17th century to the evocative gardens of the French Impressionists of the 19th century."