It’s a floral start to the Saturday Workshop season!

The Society’s season of Workshops and Classes was launched on Saturday September 2nd when the Saturday Workshop members met for the first time this season.

Collage of SAS floral Saturday Workshop 2017

A colourful display of flowers brought mainly from members’ gardens provided the subject matter for our painting and a consideration of two different traditions of Flower Painting. The session began with an examination of two well known women flower painters, Marianne North, famous for her extremely accurate botanical work, and Georgia O’Keefe for her very different, strongly expressive and large scale flower paintings. Two very contrasting styles and intentions. The former’s work involved extremely accurate draughtsmanship and was recognised as of considerable scientific value by Charles Darwin and botanical scientists of her day. O’Keefe’s work by contrast involved almost monumental representations of sometimes only portions of blooms, which nevertheless still appear to spill out beyond the edges of the image.

Our thanks are due to Lynne and Mick, the former for her leadership and careful organisation and Mick for his thoroughly researched introduction.

It was good to see new members joining the group, and if you’ve registered but couldn’t make it this time, we hope to see you at the next session!