HOSTS
Alison Somerset-Ward
BA hons Landscape Architecture with Planning
Certificate in Botanical Illustration, University of Sheffield
Alison - Starting as a teenager studying for a qualification in surface pattern and textile design, I have maintained a lifelong passion and interest in a range of art and design disciplines in particular botanical illustration and photography. My love of nature and the natural world has always been an inspiration and informed my work.
Between 2002 and 2004 I completed the two year Certificate in Botanical Illustration course at the University of Sheffield which sadly is no longer available. This wonderful and intensive part time course covered a wide variety of the techniques and disciplines used in botanical illustration and I would love to try and share some of these with you at Art Arcadia.
Charlotte Liu
Chartered Landscape Architect, Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute UK
MA Landscape Architecture and BS Horticulture
Design Studio Tutor, Landscape Architecture Department, University of Sheffield
Charlotte – I am a Chartered Landscape Architect, design tutor and partner in Arcadia Landscape and Design. My portfolio contains projects of various scales, types and complexity, from small private gardens to medium schools’ grounds and to large thousand-homes housing developments. Drawing on my many years of professional work, teaching experience and development of our experimental garden I will show you how to combine the spatial qualities of a landscape with bold, luxuriant planting to create unique, stunning designs. I will also assist Alison and Mo in delivering our series of fun and creative workshops.
Mo French
Chartered Landscape Architect, Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute UK
MA Landscape Architecture
Design Studio Tutor, Landscape Architecture Department, University of Sheffield
Mo- Colour, joy and plants are my inspiration for my work and playtime! Weekdays, I am both Landscape Architect and Design Tutor, at the weekends I party…with crayons, inks, and plenty of paper! Join us for an opportunity to explore Doug and Charlottes’s beautiful, experimental garden and use the sights, scents and sounds as inspiration to scribble, swirl, splash and snip your own imaginary papery picture.
I love Eric Carle’s wonderful graphics – do you remember ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’ and ‘Brown Bear Brown Bear’ beautifully illustrated books? Inspired by his techniques, I enjoy using wax crayons with water-based ink to create relaxed, quick and colourful marks inspired by shapes, smells and sounds all around us. Then getting snippy with the scissors and some glue – to collage paper ecosystems.
Very quick, easy, fun and relaxing…as long as you wear old clothes!! Aprons and gloves will be provided to avoid having green fingers for the next week!
