ArtPlantae Today

Take a class with artist Valerie Littlewood and you will learn more than how to draw and paint from the natural world. You will learn about botany, bees, butterflies, ecology and even bits about small beasts along the way. In her classes, Valerie works with students whose interests range from making nature journals, to keeping garden notebooks, to creating paintings of flowers, plants and insects.

Valerie’s course schedule for Spring/Summer 2012 has been added to
Classes Near You > England. Here is what’s new!

Valerie Littlewood
www.pencilandleaf.blogspot.com
Valerie Littlewood has been a commercial illustrator, designer for industry, artist and art lecturer for many years. Most recently she has been drawing plants and insects, becoming more and more interested in their relationships and their conservation. Currently she is drawing bees and other pollinators and has a traveling show “BUZZ” A Celebration of British Bees and their Flowers that showcases 24 of Britain’s bees. Valerie was awarded a bursary from The Society for All Artists in 2012 to help encourage creative people of all abilities to take inspiration from the natural world, from insects, bees and flowers and to understand more about their important relationship to us. When not painting drawing or designing, reading or writing, she is battling with a new muddy patch of garden in Grafham, Cambs UK. For more info about the courses please contact the individual venues or contact Val directly.

• Look, Learn and Draw – Bugs, Beasts and Botanicals
  March 24, 2012; 10 AM – 4 PM. Stamford Arts Centre, Stamford Lincs.
• Bugs, Beasts, Botanicals – March 31-April 1, 2012.
  Nature in Art, Twigworth, Gloucester.
• Sketching from Nature – April 19, 2012; 10 AM – 1 PM.
  Easton Walled Gardens, Easton Grantham Lincolnshire.
• Bugs, Beasts and Botanicals – April 26, 2012; all-day course.
  Easton Walled Gardens, Easton Grantham Lincolnshire.


• Bugs, Beasts and Botanicals – June 7-8, 2012. Contact Val for details.