About Laura
Laura first studied watercolour with Mally Francis in Heligan Gardens, Cornwall, where she now teaches. Laura has three RHS gold medals (London 2013, London 2014 and London 2018) and Best in Show and Best Botanical Painting awards (2014, 2018). Laura has seven paintings in the prestigious Transylvania Florilegium and has work in the Hunt Institute, Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney Florilegium, RHS Lindley Library, Shirley Sherwood Collection, Oak Spring Garden Foundation Library in Virginia and Grootbos Florilegium in South Africa. Laura is a painter and tutor for the Eden Project Florilegium Society, near her home in South-West England and is probably best known for her work painting ferns, including the illustration for ‘Ferns: Lessons in Survival from Earth’s most Adaptable Plants’.
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Materials List
You will need all usual watercolour materials including:
- Watercolour paper (A4 is good), artists’ quality paints, palette and brushes. I use a selection of different brushes for different jobs so bring a wide selection if you have them. One or two good sable or similar quality brushes are essential but synthetic brushes are also useful.
- Drawing equipment including measuring tools (ruler or dividers) a fine pencil (preferably propelling), erasers, and a sketch book or sketching paper. Additionally, you may want to bring softer pencils for sketching if you have them, and layout paper (A4 is good) for planning compositions.
- Your usual magnification, plus a loupe or other strong magnifier may be useful.
- It may be useful to bring some of your own work to look at, including a piece that is unfinished so that we have something to try out finishing techniques on.
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