Art in the Meadow - Botanical Drawing Workshop

June 21, 2025

Art in the Meadow - Botanical Drawing Workshop

Long Mead Barn
Oxford Road
Swinford OX29 4BT
United Kingdom

  • Public
    £15.00
    (ends 06/22/2025)
  • NRN Members
    £10.00
    (ends 06/22/2025)
Become a member

Description

This workshop continues NRN's Wild Arts series of workshops. Join us and let yourself be drawn into the art and science of Long Mead's Wildflower Meadow with botanical artist Julia Loken.

Get close up to rare and beautiful flowers and discover whole worlds inside the petals of devil's-bit scabious and birds-foot trefoil...

No experience of painting or drawing needed, drawing pencils, coloured pencils and paper will be provided.

This workshop can be combined with a guided meadow walk before or after though Long Mead's extraordinary 1000-year-old floodplain haymeadow, with its many glorious wildflowers and wildlife.


Featured Speakers

Speaker Julia Loken
Julia Loken worked for 20 years as a botanical illustrator for Oxford University and other organisations and publishers, making pen and ink illustrations for textbooks and botanical publications. In 1980, she turned her attention to painting in watercolour. Her experience in botany, and great love of plants, have led her …

Julia Loken worked for 20 years as a botanical illustrator for Oxford University and other organisations and publishers, making pen and ink illustrations for textbooks and botanical publications. In 1980, she turned her attention to painting in watercolour. Her experience in botany, and great love of plants, have led her to choose these forms as my main subjects. She is a member of the Society of Botanical Artists, and have held exhibitions in Switzerland, France, and the US, as well as in London, Oxford, and of course in Eynsham, often in conjunction with Oxfordshire Artweeks.

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Organizer

Long Mead Foundation & Nature Recovery Network


Date and Time

Sat, June 21, 2025

1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m.
(GMT+0100) Europe/London

Location

Long Mead Barn

Oxford Road
Swinford OX29 4BT
United Kingdom

Long Mead Barn Long Mead's thatched barn is just beyond the Talbot Inn on the right going towards the Swinford toll bridge. Oxford Road Swinford OX29 4BT   Please travel by foot, bus or bike if you can. The S1 Bus stops at the Talbot Inn, just outside our gate. …

Long Mead Barn


Long Mead's thatched barn is just beyond the Talbot Inn on the right going towards the Swinford toll bridge.


Oxford Road


Swinford OX29 4BT



 


Please travel by foot, bus or bike if you can. The S1 Bus stops at the Talbot Inn, just outside our gate. We are between the Swinford Toll Bridge and the Talbot Inn (opposite the pub) recogniseable by the row of rusty birds on the gate and a thatch barn in the orchard.


If you need to travel by car please use the Eynsham Sports Pavilion car park (1 Oxford Rd, Eynsham, Witney OX29 4HG). 


 


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Pricing

  • Public
    £15.00
    (ends 06/22/2025)
  • NRN Members
    £10.00
    (ends 06/22/2025)
Become a member

Location


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Long Mead Barn

Oxford Road
Swinford OX29 4BT
United Kingdom