Teaching
It seems the world is geared back up again! Carol has taught live workshops in painting orchids at the New York Botanical Garden and at the North Carolina Botanical Garden. In August, she’ll be teaching Farm Fresh Painting at Denver Botanic Gardens, getting our subjects from their Chatfield Farms and painting in watercolor on vellum. In October, she will be co-teaching a week-long course in South Africa, at Grootbos Private Nature Reserve, in conjunction with the Grootbos Florilegium. She’ll be teaching a one-day workshop at the ASBA annual conference in Mobile, Alabama in mid-October.
Artist in Residence
In May, Carol spent three weeks in residence at Oak Spring Garden Foundation, in Upperville, VA, along with Jean Emmons and two artists from Australia, Beverly Allen and John Pastoriza-Pinol. There were so many great subjects, narrowing it down was the most difficult part. The library provided many opportunities to look at masterpieces from the distant and not-so distant past. Opportunities to join artists and others over fabulous meals by Jason and Alex were memorable, as were talks by visiting scholars and other residents. Meadows rang with birdsong and the farm was busy and filled with inspiration. Oak Spring staff everywhere were helpful, kind, and knowledgeable. Each of us found our favorite plants, and some of my studies are shown below. I plan to paint the kohlrabi for my submission to the Oak Spring library.
