Teaching & Courses
Sally has a fund of training, experience and respect for her educational activities. Her distance learning courses on Introduction to Botanical Illustration and Watercolour Techniques are now available. Her book The Botanical Illustrators’ Handbook is a readable and comprehensive guide for botanical illustrators.
She was Art Tutor at Kingston Maurward College, Dorset between 1999 and 2021, and a former tutor at the Eden Project, Cornwall and The Springhead Trust, Shaftesbury, Hillier Gardens, Romsey, King Henry's Walk Gardens Islington, Green and Away, Bransford, Worcester.
She was an invited demonstrator from 2002 to 2005 at Art in Action.
Sally has been a tutor for the Botanical Illustration for the Horticultural correspondence College since 2011.
Sally does workshops for organizations at special request.
How to Book
The object of the Texture and Detail workshop (link below) is to provide additional information to your botanical specimens. While it is seldom desirable to put in a complete background, sometimes a little information about habitat or companion plants indicating where a specimen might be found is helpful. When drawing fungi for instance, forest floor debris of the kind found where the fungus occurs is helpful information. Additional information need not be in the same detail as the specimen. Preferably it should complement but not compete with it. This may sometimes involve blurring background information. This Youtube demonstration is a whole flora habitat landscape done to show the variation in approaches to accompanying vegetation depending on how distant it is to the main subject. There may also be some helpful pointers in it for watercolour landscape improvers.
Open Structures Botanical Art Workshop
Courses for 2025 at Hilliers Gardens, Romsey
22nd February 2025
Handling Watercolour for Spring Flowers
27th April 2025
Plant Habit and Oicture Composition
20th & 21st September 2025
Fungi
12th October 2025
12 Fruits, Seeds and Berries
To book please email - info.hilliers@hants.gov.uk