Botanical Ikon Diploma Shape - 2013 Scholarship

The English linguistic communication Gardening School in Chelsea is celebrating its 30th anniversary inward 2013 yesteryear offering a scholarship opportunity worth £4,950.

The EGS is inviting applications yesteryear 31st Oct to identify a somebody who is both committed to becoming a botanical creative somebody as well as who tin accept up a costless house on their renowned Botanical Painting Diploma Course.  The scholarship covers the fee payable for the i twelvemonth part-time course.

Painting botanical fine art inward watercolour at the English linguistic communication Gardening School

What's on offer?

The focus of English linguistic communication Gardening School inward Chelsea is the provision of a attain of professional person as well as amateur courses which are all close the to a greater extent than serious aspects of gardening. Those courses which are to a greater extent than advanced - such every bit the Diploma Course - are the form of courses that people mightiness produce if they desire to brand their career inward this field.

The Diploma Course is offered every bit a business office fourth dimension one-year course. The construction of the course of pedagogy is designed to enable the scholarship winner to prepare the necessary observational as well as drawing skills which enable the accurate instance of constitute cloth inward watercolours - inside a historical as well as scientific context.

The Diploma Course comprises:
  • Learning about the principles of botanical painting.  Teaching includes
    • a serial of highly structured exercises relating to drawing techniques, basic as well as advanced watercolour icon techniques, composition and aesthetics, botany and the report of a plant family
    • visits to galleries as well as museums - including the Library, Herbarium as well as Shirley Sherwood Gallery at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, as well as RHS Lindley Library as well as Picture Library.
  • The Diploma is taught by leading botanists as well as botanical painters, including:
    • Helen Allen BA (Hons) PGCert Ed, Dip EGS, FLS – Course Director One Year Botanical Painting
    • Mariella Baldwin Dip EGS, MA
    • Sarah Gould Dip LA (Glos), Dip UD
    • Angeline de Meester BA (Hons), Dip EGS, FLS, SBA
    • Lucy T. Smith BVA (Hons), MCA
  • The i twelvemonth part-time course of pedagogy starts inward Jan as well as has 3 10 calendar week damage - amongst a week-long one-half term.  Classes are held every Mon from 10.30am to 3.15pm during term-time. 
Tuition inward botanical watercolour icon at the English linguistic communication Gardening School

How to enter

Who tin enter? The criteria is both wide as well as narrow.
  • Entrants produce non demand to take away maintain previous sense of botanical painting.
  • However the EGS volition await that whoever starts the course of pedagogy volition sympathise what's involved as well as volition live on able to consummate the Diploma Course.  Hence you lot tin await the selectors to live on looking for a high degree of commitment. 
Closing engagement for entry:  All submissions must be received by 31st Oct 2012

What's required:  Each entry MUST state:
  1. In 100 words or less - tell us close the botanical artists who most inspire you lot as well as why. 
  2. In i sentence - depict a botanical dependent champaign you lot would actually bask painting. 
  3. In 100 words or less -  What would winning this scholarship hateful to you?
How to enter:  Post your submission to Mary Ellen Taylor, The English linguistic communication Gardening School, Chelsea Wharf, fifteen Lots Road, London SW10 0 QJ

More data on The English linguistic communication Gardening School
  • Address: 2-3 Chelsea Wharf, fifteen Lots Road, London SW10 0QJ
  • email: infoATenglishgardeningschoolDOTcoDOTuk 
  • Telephone: 0207 352 4347 
  • Website: www.englishgardeningschool.co.uk.

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