SKETCHING FROM NATURE | Yanny Petters
90 minute workshop with SHAKING BOG FESTIVAL 2024
SATURDAY 14TH SEPTEMBER
2 - 3.30PM
(basic materials included)
Participants under 16 years will need to be accompanied by an adult.
ABOUT THIS workshop
In association with the SHAKING BOG FESTIVAL 2024 we are delighted to offer this opportunity to join botanical artist Yanny Petters for a sketching session identifying found natural objects and learning to draw them.
A pocket sketch book and tools will be provided. It will be informal, fun and fascinating, you might even start a new habit!
Note: this is an outdoor event under the canopy at our Enniskerry Studio. Please dress for the weather.
Meet Yanny
Yanny Petters has been painting exquisitely detailed portraits of wild plants since the 1990s. Fascinated by colour, form and detail, her love and interest in botanical art stemmed from her work as a sign-writer where plant themes were common in decorative design. Yanny has explored many mediums including oils and painting on glass, a technique she specialises in. She has a deep knowledge of watercolours which she has been sharing through workshops for many years and here at the Schoolhouse for Art since it's foundation.
Yanny has had many successful exhibitions since 1995. She exhibited with renowned landscape painter Michael Gemmell in ‘The Living Bog’ which featured her Paintings on Glass of Irish Bog Plants, at the Davis Gallery, Dublin in 2003. She was honoured to be included in ‘1000 Years of Botanical Art’ at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, in 2005 as part of the Dr. Shirley Sherwood collection. Since that she has had paintings exhibited in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery, Kew Gardens, London, as part of ‘The Art of Plant Evolution’ (2009) the 'Botanical Art in the 21st Century' (2014) and in Modern Masterpieces of Botanical Art (2019).
Her work was recently acquired by The National Gallery of Ireland and The National Museum of Ireland. A number of her works are in the Dr. Shirley Sherwood Collection, the most prestigious collection of botanical art in the world.
Other collections include:
Office of Public Works State Collection, Wicklow Mountains National Park, Co. Wicklow, Connemara National Park, HSE Community Nursing Unit at Clonskeagh, The Watercolour Society and many private collections.