About the event

More and more studies show that spending time in nature is good for your mental health, while artistic activities are proven to be relaxing. Spend a day mixing these two activities in the ancient woodland of Nower Wood.

In the morning, you will create two beautifully adorned hard-backed sketchbooks full of paper ready to be used.  After that, you will wander the woodland seeking inspiration to draw in your notebook.  This technique, known as Nature Journaling, is a wonderful way to capture and record a moment of beauty.  

Your tutor will guide you to areas of interest in the woods and, by using only the pencils you can easily carry, she will help you to document and sketch the things that inspire you.

This course is designed for both beginners and improvers. 

Tutor Details: Jo Cameron

My background began specifically in Scientific Illustration, which included botanical and natural history subjects.

Joanna Cameron Fineart – www.jcfineart.co.uk

Currently, as well as my own work and freelance works, I teach and oversee the Postgraduate Medical Artists’ Education Trust Programme in Medical art Medical Artists' Education Trust . This is a scientific part-time flexible learning course.

This includes an intensive foundation drawing course which I set up a few years ago i.e. detailed drawing, observation, skeletal and anatomy. All of which apply to any scientific subject, whether it be anatomical, natural history or botanical.

Within this, I concentrate on teaching the traditional skills of pencil drawing, observation, watercolour, pen and ink and carbon dust - all being perfect mediums for scientific illustration.