Botanical watercolor lessons at Hanbury Gardens - online video tutorial

Botanical watercolor lessons at Hanbury Gardens - online video tutorial

Tithe lesson: the Citrus medica var. sarcodactlylus "Mano di Buddha"

The Hanbury Botanical Gardens are pleased to offer to the public the opportunity to approach botanical painting by offering video-tutorials dedicated to flowers and fruits that you can find in our Garden and which will teach, step by step, to draw and paint the subject proposed.

This initiative was born thanks to the collaboration with the botanical painter Chiara Trinchieri and her desire to pass on her passion for botanical art to those who want to follow her on this path.

Chiara Trinchieri was born in Milan where she completed her training and working career in the artistic field.

She graduated in 1981 as a Visual designer at the "Polytechnic School of Design" where, as a pupil of N. Di Salvatore, Bruno Munari, Augusto Garau, she learned the psychology of form and color (Gestalt_psychologie) and the methodology of design at the service of creativity . In 1986, following a botanical watercolor course, she approaches this discipline which she will cultivate with passion by carrying out numerous studies and tables. Eager to convey her interest in botanical art, in 2016 she began teaching at institutions and schools. Her special thanks go to a great Italian botanical artist of the last century, Marilena Pistoia.

If I have to express my opinion on botanical illustration I would use the words of my teacher Bruno Munari who in his book "Art as a profession" writes: "There is a way to" copy nature "and there is a way to understand nature. Copying nature can be a form of manual dexterity and may not even help to understand simply because it shows us things as we normally see them. Studying natural structures, observing the evolution of forms can instead give everyone has the opportunity to understand more and more the world we live in ". (Chiara Trinchieri)

BOTANICAL WATERCOLOR TUTORIAL VIDEO