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Bring The Outside In

Botanical Drawings

ach month, the Studio at Bowood offers both planting workshops and classes devoted to art techniques, including block printing, watercolor, and cyanotype. Participants leave with an original piece that celebrates the natural world. “Even with the art classes, we tend to focus on botanical subjects, ” says Holly Rogers, Studio manager at Bowood. “We’ll bring plants in for the painting classes so you can draw from

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