Ottawa Society of Botanical Artists
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.