Botanical illustration workshop suitable for beginners and improvers – looking closely at pumpkins, squashes and gourds, create accurate botanical studies with guidance from professional botanical art tutor Leigh Ann Gale.

If you don’t have any art equipment, Leigh Ann is able to provide pencils and paper for drawing and painting as well as ink pens and coloured pencils.

Leigh Ann trained at The English Gardening School, Chelsea Physic Garden, and since graduating in 2004 has become a Fellow of the Hampton Court Palace Florilegium Society and an RHS medallist. Her work is featured in The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Pittsburgh, USA and included in many private collections both in the UK and abroad. As well as painting, Leigh Ann now teaches botanical art throughout Sussex, Surrey and south east London.

For more information visit www.la-botanicalart.co.uk

Cost: £60 – to include a delicious light lunch. This is a daytime event starting at 10am and finishing at 3.30pm. Spaces are limited, so give yourself an autumn treat and book early!