Tutor List

Information on our tutors

Anna Mason

Anna lives in Surrey and grew up in rural West Sussex, surrounded by the lush beauty of the English countryside. Nature inspires her art and her paintings show us its beauty in all its perfection.

With her unusual use of close-up and composition Anna takes a modern and contemporary approach to botanical painting.

Clare is a professional designer and illustrator with a degree in Interior Design and worked for many years as a designer for a commercial contemporary design company in Edinburgh. With a passion for nature and detail, which she combines in her illustrative work, Clare completed with Distinction the new Diploma course in Botanical Illustration at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in 2009 and then went onto receive an RHS Gold Medal for her collection of Vegetables in March 2010. Her work is now held in the RHS Lindley Library Collection as well as in private collections. In addition to

Fiona Strickland

Fiona was trained in Drawing and Painting at Edinburgh College of Art, which included a year of Post Graduate study and a Travelling Scholership. An experienced teacher of twenty six years she tutors Master classes at The Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh. Fiona is an award winning member of the Society of Botanical Artists and recipient of an RHS Gold Medal. Recently invited by the RHS she exhibited a series of paintings at Fulham Palace in an exhibition designed to give the visitor a taste of the best standard in Botanical Painting available today. Fiona has exhibited her paintings nati

Gael Sellwood

Gael is a qualified teacher and illustrator of over 15 years experience and runs local classes specialising in developing compositions that suit the material she is painting. Gael has written and published a number of articles, the most important of which was ‘painting nature on vellum’ in 2004. Gael has been teaching adults since 1992 utilising natural objects, affected, renounced and used by nature. Painting in watercolour (usually on vellum) recreating a season, a feeling, a scent or an experience for posterity.

Gaynor Dickeson

Gaynor Dickeson Dip SBA(Dist), SBA, SFP

Gaynor is an experienced teacher with many years in natural history illustration. She works in watercolour, coloured pencil and graphite and has pictures in collections in Europe, the USA and Australia.

After school, the choice was between art or nursing. Nursing won but she still kept up her artistic interests while living in Norway for 25 years.

Jane Nicholas Barne

Jane is a Wiltshire based artist who specilises in Charcoal and Pencil Drawings focusing on Rural Landscapes and Botanical themes. Jane is currently working and teaching from a home studio just outside of Marlborough. To see examples of Jane's work see www.janenicholas.co.uk

Janie Pirie

Janie with good friend Alan Titchmarsh
at BBC Gardener's World Live.

Growing up in the sleepy little village of Newton Longville, Buckinghamshire, Janie was painting pictures of the family garden at the tender age of four. Plants and vegetables as subjects have remained her passion and have led her to becoming a renowned botanical artist.

After leaving school she studied at the Northampton School of Art before life took her to London and then many places outside of the UK, notably Greece, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

Jennie Hinton

After teaching the University of Sheffield Botanical Illustration Course at Rother Valley College Jennie became a founder member of the Independent Botanical Illustration Society where she created an on-going Project recording and illustrating native plants and associated insect life.

Jeremy Ford

As a versitile painter with over thirty years experience I will help students to learn and enjoy painting in a friendly and informal atmosphere, spending time with each student giving plenty of encouragment explaining various tips and techniques. I am ideally qualified for teaching the first-time painter as well as the advanced painter adapting my one-to-one teaching to individual needs. I will give plenty of demonstrations to assist in the learning process. I was the last President of the S.A.A. (Society for All Artists) Demonstrator for St.

Julia Trickey

Julia has been painting botanical watercolours for thirteen years and teaching for ten. She is particularly drawn to less than perfect specimens, such as autumn leaves and seed heads. She holds various awards for her paintings including two RHS gold medals for leaf portraits. See Julia's work at www.juliatrickey.co.uk

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