Plant Time: Engaging with Botanical Worlds

Through sustained, close looking, students will explore plant forms, growth, and materiality while cultivating attentiveness and slowness as creative methods.

Drawing from Art
Drawing from Imagination

Plant Time: Engaging with Botanical Worlds Image

Course details

Dates

Mondays
15 Feb – 15 Mar 2027

Times

10:00 – 17:00

Duration

5 sessions

Fees

£298.00 Concessions available

Location

Online

Tutors

Lindsay Sekulowicz

Dani Trew Lunaria

Overview

This course centres on observational
drawing from plants. In addition to drawing
directly from living plants and herbarium
sheets, historical botanical images will be
part of our visual and material research.
These encounters invite us to consider how
plants have been classified, circulated, and
cared for across time.

This course will look to artists who
approach plants as collaborators and
carriers of knowledge. This includes the
botanical drawings of Ellsworth Kelly, the
seed histories of María Thereza Alves,
visionary plant cosmologies of Hildegard
von Bingen, and the embodied forest
knowledge drawings of Abel Rodríguez.

The course will create space for each
student to develop a personal drawing
practice rooted in ecological awareness,
reflecting on how our own landscapes,
cultural backgrounds, and botanical
memories shape how we see and draw.

Who is it for

Artists, creatives and image-makers of all levels welcome, including beginners.

What’s provided

For our online courses, you will receive prior to the start of the course access to our Padlet Noticeboard where you will be given course details, material lists and some references, as well as our Padlet Gallery where you will be able to upload and comment on work created during the course.

What to bring

For our online courses, you must provide your own materials. Feel free to use any that you would like to during classes, however other suggestions may be posted on the Padlet noticeboard throughout the course by tutors. This is a suggested list of what may be needed:

Drawing Pencils,
Conté Crayons,
Pastels,
Ink Pens,
Coloured Pencils,
Putty and Hard Erasers,
Pencil Sharpener,
Sketchbook

Concessions

We offer a range of discounts.

To apply, email admin@royaldrawingschool.org with the required proof. Please wait for confirmation before booking.

Available discounts:

NHS Staff: 20%
Send a photo of your NHS staff badge.

Full-time Fine Art BA Students: 75%
Students on design or applied arts degrees may also be eligible. Send your student ID and proof of enrolment.

Art & Design teachers/tutors, from Primary and Secondary to Further and Higher Education: 50%
Send a letter from your headteacher, dean, or head of art department on headed paper.

Jobseekers: 50%
Send a recent DWP or JobCentre Plus letter confirming you receive Jobseeker’s Allowance. Appointment booklets are not accepted.

Disability Benefit Recipients: 50%
Send proof that you currently receive this allowance.

Tower Hamlets and Hackney Residents: 25% (Shoreditch courses only)
Send a copy of your most recent council tax bill.

Tower Hamlets and Hackney Businesses: 25% (Shoreditch courses only)
Send a staff ID, business card or a letter from your line manager.

Over 60s: 10%
Send a photo ID as proof of age.
RDS Alumni: Postgraduate Programme or Foundation Year: 50% off short courses. Online Drawing Development Year: 50% off online short courses.

Before you apply

Documents must be dated within the last 6 months (or 12 months for council tax)

Your name must be clearly visible
Accepted file formats: PDF, JPG, DOC or DOCX

All our courses are subsidised.

Image: 'Cactus Garden' by Caitlin Stone

Tutors

Lindsay Sekulowicz

Tutor, Drawing Year Alumna, 2008