The fifth annual Botanical & Floral Art Exhibition at the Bloom Festival is an Open Call Exhibition featuring some of the best botanical artists exhibiting in Ireland today. Medals may be awarded for works of particular merit by an independent judging panel. As well as the paintings themselves, cards and prints will be available for […]
Hosted by the ISBA in association with the Dublin Orchid Fair. The RHS Orchid Committee and its artists: a history of the RHS orchid award paintings A talk by Clare Hermans, Chairman of the Royal Horticultural Society’s Orchid committee, author of many articles and co-author of Orchids of Madagascar and a research fellow of the […]
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, […]
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 […]
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.
**Due to the situation regarding COVID-19 (Coronavirus), this exhibition is currently closed** Drawn from Nature: Irish Botanical Art opens at the National Gallery of Ireland on 7 March 2020 and runs until 21 June 2020. Admission is free. George Victor Du Noyer (1817-1869)Engl. King. King. Musk. Turnip. Black annat. Winter Rose, 1837Courtesy of the National Botanic […]
Join Patricia Butler, author of Irish Botanical Illustrators and Flower Painters and guest curator of Drawn from Nature: Irish Botanical Art, for her talk about the exhibition and botanical art at large. This talk--sponsored by the Irish Society of Botanical Artists--will be followed by a cup of tea/coffee and an opportunity to ask questions and […]
**Due to the current situation regarding COVID-19 (Coronavirus), this talk has been cancelled** Join Seamus O'Brien, Head Gardener at the National Botanic Gardens, for this free Sunday lecture at the National Gallery of Ireland, part of a series of events in the gallery to mark their exhibition Drawn from Nature: Irish Botanical Art. Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, […]
In COVID times, we cannot gather in person to launch our latest publication, but 20 November marks the day we launch it online! This exciting new publication celebrates the complex journey of botanical artists as they collect information and prepare to illustrate a particular plant. This includes ‘visiting’ plants in their habitat or in gardens, […]
