A Garden Adventure in Botanical Watercolor Art
The Cook’s Garden welcomes you to another event in our outdoor classroom with this unique learning and tasting experience.
This intimate, creative, interactive workshop is a guided exploration of watercolor art using botanical materials while you sip on featured wines and savor an artisanal cheese and charcuterie board (vegan options too). Walk away from this unique experience refreshed and inspired by the bounty nature has to offer!
No experience needed, all curious humans welcomed as our talented, trail-blazing local natural artist and forager, Nadine Allan, guides you through a series of exercises to expand your artistic creativity. You will embrace the magic of The Cook’s Garden as we take you on a journey that will feed all your senses!
PLEASE READ: FULLY VACCINATED ATTENDEES ONLY. YOU MUST PRESENT YOUR VACCINE CARD (DIGITAL COPY OK) AT THE DOOR. NO EXCEPTIONS. Adults only (21 and over).
What your ticket provides:
watercolor pages, 3 botanical colors and 1 botanical wax pastel, paint brushes
2 glasses of wine (non-alcoholic options too) with an artisanal cheese and charcuterie board (vegan options too)
Art lesson
What you will experience:
Welcome by Geri Miller, owner of The Cook’s Garden
Sip and nosh session
Nadine’s intro to naturally made art materials:
watercolor demo and your time to paint
Q & A
About the Artist
Nadine Allan
Nadine Allan is a visual artist who focuses on themes of ethnobotany, migration and semiotics. Growing up with a multi-cultural background, she is inspired by the universal power of plants to be our aids in daily life. She experienced the healing powers of herbs through family members who practiced Chinese medicine and learned about self-reliance from her American family who tended edible gardens. At age ten, her grandfather, a botanist, gave her a flower press that he had built. This sparked her very first plant-based entrepreneurship, creating and selling artwork created out of pressed flowers. She has a degree in Fine Arts from UCLA and continues to combine her passions for art and nature. Visit her shop at Feral Botanics.
