Art has always brought me joy. At first I always got in trouble, doodling on my brown paper school book covers, drawing on my bedroom wall when it was dark so that I could wake up in the morning and see what I had drawn. Classes in high school introduced me to the many different media and styles of art. I particularly enjoyed drawing and painting plants and flowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Economics made me choose nursing school over art school, regulating my art work to a hobby. Fast forward a lot of years when a Master Gardener friend saw my drawing and suggested that I take classes in Botanical Art and Illustration. It has become a pleasure to rekindle my skills and learn new ones. Close observation and line drawings are followed by detailed sketches and color choices to become a final product. The rhythm and the movement of a drawing across the page becomes a dance on paper that I can now share with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
EDUCATION:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 Principal Certified Master Gardener, Mass. Horticultural Society 2008<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n AFFILIATIONS:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 New England Society of Botanical Artists SHOWS:<\/strong> Boston Flower Show, Spring 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Art of the Woody Plant, Arnold Arboretum, Summer 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Art of Science\/The Science of Art, Massasoit Community\u00a0College, Fall 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n Boston Flower Show, Spring 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n 14th Annual Blanche Ames National Juried Art Exhibition, Fall 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00a0\u201cRAW,\u201d NESBA Members Juried Exhibition, September 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n Boston Flower Show, Spring 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n Boston Flower Show, Spring 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shaker Gifts: Seeds, Herbs & Medicinal Plants, Harvard, MA, May-Sept 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n Boston Flower Show, Spring 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tower Hill Flower Show, Boylston, MA, Spring 2020 (cancelled due to COVID-19)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Art has always brought me joy. At first I always got in trouble, doodling on my brown paper school book covers, drawing on my bedroom wall when it was dark so that I could wake up in the morning and see what I had drawn. Classes in high school introduced me to the many different […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-63","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorissheilsartist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorissheilsartist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorissheilsartist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorissheilsartist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorissheilsartist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dorissheilsartist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/dorissheilsartist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorissheilsartist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Certificate of Botanical Illustration from Wellesley College Friends of\u00a0Horticulture 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
American Society of Botanical Artists<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Massachusetts Master Gardener Association<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Boston Flower Show, Spring 2014
River, Textile and Dye Plants, Lowell, MA 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n