The Leicestershire Society of Botanical Illustrators Exhibition

Event Description

'Handle with Care!’ ‘Plants with a Dark Side.’

'Handle with Care!’ ‘Plants with a Dark Side.’

An Art Exhibition in the Library at Leicester Guildhall.

The Leicestershire Society of Botanical Illustrators was established in the 1980s and comprises a group of local artists who meet weekly at the University of Leicester Botanic Gardens in Oadby.

The aim of the Society is to promote botanical illustration and to encourage its members to achieve a high degree of botanical accuracy and attention to detail in the depiction of plants.

Members traditionally work in watercolour on hot-pressed paper or vellum although pen and ink, pencil and coloured pencil work are also popular mediums.

Their latest exhibition of mainly watercolour paintings features a collection of invasive, prickly, poisonous and sometimes deadly plants.

Admission is free and cards and prints by members will be available to buy.

Come if you dare!

Please note:

• the exhibition closes on the Tue 14^th May at 3pm


• the Guildhall library is situated on the 1st floor and due to the historic nature of the building, access is via a staircase only.

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