Ottawa Society of Botanical Artists
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Ottawa Society of Botanical Artists
MEMBER MEETINGS
GUEST SPEAKERS
OSBA member meetings feature presentations on a wide range of subjects from botany to photography, historic gardens, art techniques, and more.
For artists, as for scientists, bryophytes (mosses, liverworts and hornworts) offer a world of untapped potential. Flying under many people’s radar due to their small relative size, these exceptional plants are deceptively gargantuan in ecological nfluence and stunning beauty, richly rewarding those who take the time to really look, and see.
In this preview presentation for the upcoming OBSA visit to the National Herbarium of Canada at the Canadian Museum of Nature’s Research and Collections facility in Gatineau, Quebec, we’ll meet the mosses and highlight just a few of the other exciting public resources that the Museum’s Herbarium Team safeguards for research, education, art and more.
Jennifer Doubt, Curator of Botany
Canadian Museum of Nature
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OSBA Member Lauren Foster-MacLeod leads us on her art journey, through her love of drawing from life, over the past 50+ years.
Lauren is a constant observer and visual chronicler of the world around her. Working drawings and paintings for magazines, courtroom illustrations, botanical and book illustrations and urban sketching are all captured in her sketchbook collection "Foster My Thoughts".
Lauren will bring many of her sketchbooks for our members to see, providing a visual "behind the scenes" view into many of her finished works, and the development of her drawing skills over the years.
Lauren Foster-MacLeod
Courtroom Artist, Illustrator
& Urban Sketcher
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© Lauren Foster-MacLeod
OSBA Member Marina Ferrarin takes us
on a fascinating journey through the art
of decorative handwriting and its history, touching on the development of lettering scripts, writing instruments and illuminated manuscripts. She will show the tools and materials used in calligraphy, illustration and bookbinding.
Born in Venice, Marina work shows the influence of her Venetian heritage through her expertise, and a devotion to the mastery of calligraphic, illumination and bookbinding techniques. The application of gold elevates her work to an exquisite art.
Her presentation will include many of the beautiful and elegant books she has created.
Marina Ferrarin
Calligraphic Artist & Illustrator
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Artist, Elena works in watercolor, oil, acrylic and other mediums, and will be discussing a variety of art materials.
In 2011, she opened Artmaterials.ca, a small, family-owned art supplies business and started importing quality and affordable art supplies from around the globe.
In 2020, she began formulating her own watercolors with a list of ingredients and high-quality pigments. Using ingredients free from harsh chemicals and standing for transparency and safety in ingredients, she brings her knowledge and experience to artists with a variety of hand-made art supplies.
June 10, 2024
Elena Nahum Leroy
Artmaterials.ca
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November 13, 2023
Paul Sokoloff, Senior Research Assistant, Botany
Canadian Museum of Nature
For over 100 years, botanists from the Canadian Museum of Nature have been traveling to the Arctic and across Inuit Nunangat (the Inuit homeland in Canada) to learn about the plants and lichens that call the tundra home. Join museum botanist, Paul Sokoloff, on a journey through Arctic botany, and the science and history of collecting plants above the treeline.
Pollinators could do with a little help these days, especially bees. As any gardener knows, helping bees is win-win. We rely on these insects to pollinate many fruits and vegetables. Learn how to turn any garden into a bee-friendly habitat, welcoming different native bee species.
September 11, 2023
Julianne Labreche, Master Gardener
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Tri-coloured bumbebee on Queen of the Prairie
Photo by Julianne Labreche©
June 12, 2023 Andrée Pouliot
Andrée has dedicated her career to designing, developing and supporting the art of hand block printing with wood blocks. She co-founded the family business Soma Blockprints in Jaipur and continues to work as its Creative Director. Andrée also runs a fashion import business based in Ottawa.
At the presentation, Andrée will show the woodblocks carved and utilized to print the commercial collection of home furnishing, called "Tree of Life".
Visit www.andreejaipur.com, for details about Andrée's career in block print, painting, and her online shop,
Visit www.somashop.com, the online store in Jaipur. International shipping.
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March 7, 2023, 7 pm
A Zoom Presentation by JANET JOHNS
President of the Ottawa Orchid Society
What is an orchid? Is the one you see in your
favourite hardware or food store the only kind?
Learn more about where and how these lovely plants grow. Explore some additional genera from around the world that are commonly grown indoors (and in gardens) by orchidophiles in Canada.
November 14, 2022Blaine Marchand
Blaine is the Garden Director for Friends of the Central Experimental Farm. He is a peony expert, a poet and a writer. Blaine's presentation centres on the botanical illustrators who worked at the Central Experimental Farm documenting various horticultural species over the past century. It includes historical information and examples of their illustrations.
Illustration of Canada moonseed from Fyles' Principal Poisonous Plants of Canada (1920)
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October 11, 2022, 7 pm - A Zoom PresentationRaewyn Khosla
Novice gardener and OSBA Member Raewyn Khosla discovers the value and beauty of native plants in her tiny New Edinburgh garden.
September 12, 2022
Claire McCaughey
Ikebana artist Claire McCaughey presents the Japanese art of floral design. Ikebana has been variouslycalled “Zen with flowers, living sculpture, and the art of space. She shares the aesthetic principles ofIkebana as well as some of the basic elements of making an arrangement. She also talks aboutIkebana’s connection with nature and the seasons.
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June 13, 2022Raewyn Khosla
Novice gardener and OSBA Member Raewyn Khosla discovers the value and beauty of native plants in her tiny New Edinburgh garden.
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April 18, 2022Pat van der Linde
Take a walk along the roadside and woods with OSBA Member Pat van der Linde as she discovers and discusses many of the weeds we overlook everyday.
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September 13, 2021Heather Clemenson
Join OSBA Member Heather Clemenson to learn about Tudor and Elizabethan garden design, the large formal gardens of the 17th century, and English landscape gardens. Her talk closes with garden developments in the Victorian period and up to the First World War.
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November 8, 2021Heather Clemenson
Heather continues Part 2 of her English Garden Design presentation. The demise of the large country houses in England, particularly following the First and Second World Wars, also has consequences for their gardens. It describes the Arts and Crafts movement in garden design and the emergence of garden tourism.