Teaching Workshops: Dates for 2026
“ Lizzie was quite the best tutor I have had on the Botanic Art courses I have been to at the Botanic Garden over the years. ”
“ What a wonderful three days we had! Lizzie is an inspirational teacher ”
Please click through the links to book your places on the workshops listed below. Places on Lizzie’s workshops can only be booked through the organisations which host them.
Unfortunately, all 2026 courses are now fully booked.
Please free free to ask the education department to add your name to a waiting list as cancellations do happen:
education@botanic.cam.ac.uk
Cambridge University Botanical Gardens: Courses 2026
Pen and Ink: Stippling Workshop
Format: In-person (Three-day)
Date: 24/03/2026 – 26/03/2026
Time: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday @ 10 am – 4 pm
Summary
This three day course will focus on stippling as a means of showing tonality in pen and ink drawings. There’ll be plenty to draw, some line drawing excersizes, and lots of time to really build up differences of tone with stippling. Book Here.
Horse chestnut fruit
Painting Blue Flowers in Watercolour
Format: In-person (Two-day)
Date: 20/05/2026 – 21/05/2026
Time: Wednesday & Thursday @ 10 am – 4 pm
Summary
Spend time illustrating some of the beautiful blue and purple flowers growing in the botanic gardens with watercolour.
There’ll be a bit on flower anatomy, a lot on colour mixing, and loads of different flowers to paint. Book Here.
Harebell
Format: In-person (Full day)
Date: 07/07/2026
Time: Tuesday @ 10 am – 4 pm
Summary
One day course spent learning about grasses, looking at their enormous variety, and doing simple line drawings of them with pen and ink. With bonus talk from Raphaella Hull, head of learning at the gardens. Book Here.
Sour grass