Gardening Drawing Club

"We warmly invite you to approach gardening through drawing and drawing through gardening".

Spend a beautiful autumnal evening with the Gardening Drawing Club in Burgh House's beautiful garden, designed by famous horticulturist Gertrude Jekyll.

The Garden Drawing Club offers opportunities for adults and children to explore the relations between arts and horticulture. By advocating for veganic gardening methods, it promotes gentleness and compassion while supporting seed sovereignty; racial, climate, land justice and reparation; biodiversity; and animal liberation.

Workshop: The Basics of Planting

Spend a cosy summer evening with The Gardening Drawing Club, as we take you through the basics of growing organic vegetables and herbs, before we paint and draw impressions from these encounters.

Guided by artist and gardener Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck, this workshop will help you nurture your skills and confidence in gardening, providing you with a basic know-how to start your own horticultural experiments at home. Johanna will start things off by walking you through the basics of growing organic vegetables and herbs, speaking to seed selection, soil, season, biodiversity, and gardening on a budget. We will also riff off the shapes, colours, and energies we find within plants and seeds to paint and draw our impressions from our encounters.

No gardening experience is necessary – this event is suitable for beginners and the most experienced gardeners alike.

All organic seeds, veganic soil, pots, art supplies, and plant-based painting materials will be provided. Art materials provided in this workshop include plant-based paints.

Note to participants: organic herbal tea will be served to all attendees. To reduce the waste of single-use material, we kindly ask you to bring a cup with you. We will employ veganic soil with British-grown organic seeds.

Kindly funded by the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust.

Host or Publisher Burgh House