CAROLE ANDREWS  SBA – Surrey

Regular specialist flower painting courses in watercolour for all abilities at her home in Epsom Downs, Surrey and some one-day workshops available.  Tel: 01737 371026

SANDRA WALL ARMITAGE  NDD, SBA – Bedfordshire

One to two-day botanical painting workshops in watercolour, suitable for all levels of ability at Chalton, Bedfordshire.  Tel: 01525 874473 or email:

VALERIE BAINES FLS, FSBA – Sussex

Short courses on painting flowers and fruits at Juniper Hall Field Centre. Contact: Juniper Hall Field Centre, Dorking, Surrey RH5 6DA  Tel: 0845 458 3507
Also short course on flower painting at Pashley Manor Gardens, East Sussex. Contact the Gardens on Tel: 01580 200888 or email:

SUSAN CHRISTOPHER-COULSON SBA

Weekend courses discovering the possibility of coloured pencils using flowers, fruits and vegetables at: Alston Hall near Preston, Lancs, Tel: 01772 784661; RHS Harlow Carr Gardens, Harrogate,  Tel: 01423 724680; In the Peak District with Field Breaks, Tel: 01433 621420 or info@fieldbreaks.co.uk and Plas Tan Y Bwlch, Snowdonia, Gwynedd,  Tel: 01766 590324

HELGA CROUCH FLS, FSBA – Essex

Regular botanical illustration classes in watercolour on paper and vellum on Wednesdays in March-April and September-October at her studio.  Suitable for beginners and intermediate with special interest in wild flora and fruits.  Contact: The Mill House, Little Sampford, Nr Saffron Walden, Essex CB10 2QT or Tel: 01799 586238

GAYNOR DICKESON DipSBA(Dist) SBA SFP –
West Sussex

Botanical Art,  one and two-day workshops in water colour or coloured pencil. All abilities welcome to her studio in Bosham, West Sussex.  
June 3 & 4 – From the flower garden, July 1 & 2 – From the kitchen garden, August 12 &13 - Dahlias 
Contact for more details: Telephone 01243 573 405
Web site: www.gaynorsflora.com - Email: gaynorsflora[at]mac.com

JAN HARBON SBA (CBM), SFP, SGM - Hampshire

1 or 2 day courses at RHS Wisley gardens and Gilbert Whites House, Selborne. Contact venues directly. Also 1 day workshops at least twice yearly in Hampshire. To be on the mailing list for these please contact Jan at: www.janharbon.com (for dates etc), email: janharbon[at]btinternet.com, tel: 01428 751003

AUDREY HARDCASTLE SBA – Wiltshire

One or two-day workshops for all levels of ability at The Sir Harold Hillier Garden and Arboretum, Romsey, Hampshire.  Tel: 01794 368787

YVONNE GLENISTER HAMMOND SBA – Bedfordshire

Botanical painting courses and workshops for beginners and advanced students at Knuston Hall, Northamptonshire.  Tel: 01933 312104 and Missenden Abbey, Evreham, Buckinghamshire (weekend courses).  Tel: 0845 045 4040 or email:

SUSAN HILLIER FSBA – Somerset and Cornwall

Short courses at Dillington House, Somerset, contact: Dillington House. Tel: 01460 258613.  Ten-week course on Fridays at Porth Navas, Cornwall, contact: Claire Holmes on Tel: 01326 340336.  Ten week botanical painting course on Thursdays at Tresillian, Cornwall, contact: Pat Bearman on Tel: 01872 530340.  In Cornwall with Field Breaks, tel: 01433 621420. Botanical course from 15-22 August 2009 at Manzan d'en Bas in Ariège of SW France. Other occasional workshops and short courses, Tel: 01726 73696 or

MAUREEN JORDAN  SBA – Suffolk

Two – day Pastel Workshops. Flowers and Gardens in her studio and garden in Ipswich, Suffolk. Small groups of beginners and intermediate artists in May, June and July. Tel: 01473 278122 or email:

JENNY JOWETT  FSBA, PSFP – Berkshire, Hampshire, Suffolk and Portugal

Two and four-day workshops covering all levels of ability, held at her home. Also ten days in Portugal in September painting landscape and plants. Contact: Tel/Fax: 0118 970 0278.  Week-long courses in August (advanced) and September (improver) at Flatford Mill Field Centre.  Contact: Flatford Mill Centre, East Bergholt, Colchester, CO7 6UL or
Tel: 01206 298283

JACKY JOUSSON SBA RHS - France

Botanical Painting and Illustration Training Courses at both beginner and intermediate levels using pencil and watercolour on paper and vellum (including an introduction to the choice, preparation and use of this splendid support: each participant will be offered a piece of 6" x 8" Kelmscott vellum from Willam Cowley, probably the finest in the world). The courses will extend over five days, from 31 May to 4 June 2010 and will take place in the magnificent setting of an 17th century Manor beautifully restored in Perigord, South-West France. Instruction will be at the house, in its garden and in the surrounding countryside where there are many wild orchids which will be used as subject-material. Accommodation will be in chambres d'hotes close to the Manor.
Information, dates and conditions from Alain Duvivier and Veronique, +33 553 569 055 or by email: .
Website: www.manoirdemaisonblanche.com

MICHAEL LAKIN SBA – Derbyshire

Monthly one-day and weekend workshops in watercolour, coloured pencil and pencil on painting and drawing through the seasons at White Hollows Studio, the Calke Estate, South Derbyshire. Accommodation can be arranged. Tel: 01332 862757 for brochure.

ANNIE MORRIS BSc, SBA – Bristol and Wales

Courses for all abilities held over two days at home in North Somerset.  Other courses tutored including a week-long course for the Field Studies Council at Orielton in Pembrokeshire.  Contact Tel: 01275 373917, email:

Kate Nuttall SBA

Kate Nuttall SBA Residential courses at Knuston Hall on 23 - 25 July (particularly suitable for beginners) and 27 - 29 August 2010. Contact: Knuston Hall, Irechester, Wellingborough, Northants, NN29 7EU. Tel: 01933 312104 or email: enquiries[at]knustonhall.org.uk

VALERIE OXLEY CertEd, FHEA, SBA

Residential courses at a number of venues during 2008 including West Dean College, West Sussex; The Kingcombe Centre, Dorset; In the Peak District with Field Breaks, Tel: 01433 621420 or info@fieldbreaks.co.uk; and Higham Hall, Cumbria. New beginner's course at Farncombe Estate Centre, Worcestershire. Botanical and fungi illustration in pencil, watercolour, pen and ink and coloured pencil.
Contact: Brookside, 6 Kidd Lane, Firbeck, Worksop, Nottinghamshire
S81 8JZ, Tel/fax: 01709 813451, email:

JANE LEYCESTER PAIGE FSBA – Northants

Regular classes on Mondays from September to March. A regular class in flower painting on Fridays from September to March.  Three-day short course 'Wildflowers in June' during Summer.  Occasional other courses.  Contact: The Old Brewery Studios, The Manor House, Kings Cliff, Peterborough PE8  6XB, Tel: 01780 470247, email:

MARION PERKINS SBA – Norfolk and Lake District

Residential botanical illustration courses at The National Trust Millennium Centre, Brancaster, North Norfolk (National Trust) from 19 - 21 February 2010, 7 - 9 April 2010 and 3 - 5 September 2010, contact 01485 210719 or brancaster[at]nationaltrust.org.uk.  Botanical Master Class at the River and Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire on 5 June 2010, contact musem[at]rrm.co.uk or 01491 415600.

REINHILD RAISTRICK SBA – Cambridge

Two-day courses, suitable for all levels at Cambridge University Botanic Garden.  Tel: 01223 336265 email:

KAY REES-DAVIES SBA – North Wales

Day courses in watercolour for beginners to advanced students on the first Thursday throughout the year at Parkway Community Centre, Rhos-on-sea, North Wales.  Day classes during the summer at Ness Botanic Gardens on the Wirral.  Occasional weekend courses at the Field Study Centre, Preston Mountford near Shrewsbury.  Contact: 01248 680341.

CHRISTOPHER RYLAND BA, ATC, SBA – Suffolk

Courses in flower painting, drawing and watercolour painting, suitable for all levels, held at his Suffolk studio: 35 Gainsborough Street, Sudbury, Suffolk CO10 2EU, Tel: 01787 881224

GAEL SELLWOOD SBA, FEATC, CertHE – Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Peak District, Shropshire

A qualified teacher, Gael runs a regular weekly class every Monday or Tuesday for all levels of ability, held in the fully equipped studio at her home in Hertfordshire. Contact telephone number 01763 289 235 www.gaelsellwood.co.uk. Also regular 2 and 3 day workshops held in the studio on various topics.

Cambridge University Botanic Garden, 3 day workshop. Peak District 3 day course with Field Breaks – painting early spring plants, contact Sue Field 01433 621420 or info@fieldbreaks.co.uk. Shropshire, 2 day workshops with Corbet Courses 01939 220 312

SIRIOL SHERLOCK BA(Hons), SBA – Hampshire

Courses for all abilities at The Sir Harold Hillier Gardens near Romsey in Hampshire starting February 2007.  Contact: The Garden on Tel: 01794 369317/369318

BILLY SHOWELL SBA – various

Courses at various venues including Greystoke Cycle Café in Cumbria, Denman College in Oxfordshire and the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh.  Also demonstrations to art clubs.  Billy will also consider tutoring painting classes for a minimum of six people in artist’s own venues.  Tel: 0776 264 8687 or email
Two ‘Orchids and Tropical Flowers’ painting courses in orchid heaven Sri Lanka from 4-10 and 11-17 April 2010. All ability levels and beginners welcome, maximum group size 8. Excursions for non-painters. Contact www.paintsrilanka.com for details.

ELIZABETH SMAIL FLS, FSBA – Kent

Botanical and flower painting courses at Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve (Kent Wildlife Trust).  Contact: 01732 770504

JULIE SMALL SBA – Lancashire and Derbyshire

Residential courses in Botanical Illustration (mainly pencil).
Lancashire : Alston Hall,nr Preston  01772 784661
Derbyshire : Field Breaks,Castleton 01433 621420 or E-mail : info[at]fieldbreaks.co.uk
Beginners and more experienced students welcome.
julie.small[at]hotmail.co.uk or 01744 21863

PENNY STENNING SBA – Kent and SE London

Courses for all levels of ability.  Weekly lessons in term time and occasional Saturday workshops, contact:  Bromley Adult Education College. Tel: 020 8460 0020
Occasional workshops and short courses at South London Botanical Institute, Norwood Road, London.  Tel: 020 8674 5787, email:
Monthly visits to Mycenae Tuesday Art Club, Blackheath and a series of short evening courses, contact 020 8462 1576 or email:

MARGARET STEVENS PSBA – Wales

Course director of SBA Distance Learning Course. 
Limited number of courses in Wales, contact: Tel/Fax: 01248 602026.  Occasional residential courses for all levels of experience and miniature work at: Plas Tan y Bwlch, Bleanau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, contact: Tel: 01766 590324.

DIANA STUART DipSBA(Dist) SBA–Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire

The Lincolnshire Gallery, Spalding, Lincolnshire during 2009 and 2010: beginners and improvers botanical illustration in watercolour Painting the Fruits, Leaves and Flowers of Autumn on 19 September, 31 October and 28 November 2009. Also one-day flower painting workshops commencing 9 January 2010 then the first Saturday of each month throughout the year.  Regular weekly flower painting classes every Wednesday commencing 9 September 2009 until 26 May 2010.

Flatford Mill, East Bergholt, Suffolk in 2010: botanical illustration for beginners and botanical illustration for improvers on 12-16 April, 9-13 August and 15-18 October.

Belstead House, Ipswich, Suffolk in 2010: painting flowers in watercolour at  Welcome to Spring Daffodils 20 March; Clematis in Watercolour on 19 June; The Cottage Garden in Summer from 9-11 July; Painting and Drawing the Hedgerow in Autumn from 8-10 October.

Pear Tree Farm, Lea Bridge, Matlock, Derbyshire during 2010: botanical illustration for beginners and improvers Spring Break Painting Rhododendrons: 6-10 May.

For more info: Tel: 01945 870 411 or 0792 9211214 e-mail mikeandi27art@hotmail.co.uk, website www.mikeandi27art.com

ANN SWAN SBA – Wiltshire

One and two-day workshops at her studio in Wiltshire on botanical drawing with coloured pencils, all abilities welcome.  Two-day courses at RHS Gardens, Wisley.  Two one-week residential courses at Dedham Hall, Colchester on plant portraits in coloured pencil.  Three-day workshop at Nature in Art, Wallsworth Hall, Gloucester.  One-week holiday course in Andalucia 26 Sep - 3 Oct 2009. One-week holiday course in Umbria, Italy 13th – 20th June 2009. Contact Tel: 01380 724788 or email:

JANET WHITTLE SBA, SFP – Lincolnshire and Yorkshire Dales

Three-day course from 24-26 June 2009 on watercolour flower painting at Jack Beck House. Also workshops for beginners and improvers on the first Wednesday each month at Barrowby Reading Room, Barrowby, Grantham, Lincs NG32 1BB. Tel: 01476 571577 or email:

SIMON WILLIAMS SBA – Dorset, Cheshire and Gloucester

Courses in botanical illustration in gouache and watercolour at Greystokes Cycle Cafe, Penrith, Cumbria; Earnley Concourse, Chichester, West Sussex; and Farncombe Estate, Broadway, Cotswolds, 01386 854100 . Tel: 07931 623173 or web www.swillustrations.com