**The workshop on Thursday 23rd is fully booked. A couple of places are still available for Friday 24th. ** We are delighted to welcome Christabel King to the National Botanic Gardens to provide two workshops in Botanical Illustration to ISBA members. Christabel King (GM FSBA, FLS) has taught many of today's contemporary botanical artists. She graduated in botany and then studied scientific illustration. She's worked as an illustrator and produced plates for Curtis's Botanical Magazine for Kew Gardens for c.40 years. Awarded…

**This workshop is fully booked out** We are delighted to welcome Ann Swan to the National Botanic Gardens to provide a workshop in coloured pencil techniques to ISBA members. Ann Swan is one of the UK’s leading botanical artists working in pencil and coloured pencil; well known for her fine detail, vibrant colour and strong contemporary style. Awarded four Gold Medals by the Royal Horticultural Society, her work is represented in the prestigious Shirley Sherwood Collection and the RHS Lindley Library. She is…

Well be holding our AGM in the Visitor Centre Lecture Theatre at the National Botanic Gardens. We'll be taking membership renewals before the official start of the meeting. As well as the normal business matters during the AGM, we'll have an update on our new project for 2019-20 from its Steering Committee. Following the meeting, we're delighted to say that Brendan Sayers will talk to us about what judges look for when they're assessing entries for juried exhibitions. The timetable…

Our new project is underway! If you'd like an opportunity to find out more about how you can approach your work, how sketchbook pages can be created and later bound, join Noeleen Frain for a one-day workshop in Drumcondra, Dublin. As well as being an accomplished botanical artist, Noeleen is a skilled and experienced calligrapher, book-binder and teacher.

This event is offered to all members and is free of charge. It takes place in the lovely Glebe House and Gallery, where members paint plants from the gardens for two days. It's a great chance to meet and draw/paint alongside other members. Curator Adrian Kelly is very obliging and makes sure we have everything we need. Members make their own arrangements for accommodation and bring their own packed lunches. Contact Oonagh for more details.

As part of our Sceitse project support, members only get a chance to join botanical artist and journal maker Claire Ward for a sketchbook workshop in the National Botanic Gardens on 17 May, from 10 until 4. Cost €35.

A get-together for members: meet up for coffee if you wish, and if you have questions about Sceitse, our Sketchbook Project, come meet Sketchbook Committee members and ISBA Committee members  who'll be available for chat, discussion and advice. (Thanks to ISBA member Loredana Geninazza for her sketch which features here).

We'll be holding our AGM in the Visitor Centre Lecture Theatre at the National Botanic Gardens. We'll be taking membership renewals before the official start of the meeting. As well as the normal business matters during the AGM, it will be the hand-in day for our 2020 Sceitse/Sketchbook project. If you've any questions between now and then about Sceitse, contact Elaine Moore Mackey at 087 688 7064. Following the meeting, we're delighted to say that Yanny Petters will talk to…