Carrick Hill is thrilled to host Adelaide Central School of Art as part of the Nature Festival.
Tickets on sale soon with the launch of the Nature Festival program on August 19, 2025.
Join one of Australia’s finest and World renowned Botanical Scientific Illustrators, Gilbert RM DASHORST CF, on a journey of discovering ‘The Rose’. Gilbert will guide you in drawing some of Carrick Hill’s finest roses. He will mentor you in creating field notes and illustrations on the rose. These field observations will then be brought inside Carrick House, where you can view ‘The Rose in Art’ exhibition. You will then transfer your notes and drawings into a piece of botanical art. You will have the opportunity to use dissecting equipment, hand lenses, and amicroscope. This event will provide you with valuable insight into the work of a botanical illustrator. You will leave with a stunning outline of your rose, which you can finish at home, frame, and hang.
With this in mind, minimal colouring will be done within the short timeframe. Please bring any medium you prefer to record colours, such as coloured pencils, watercolours, gouache, or inks.
Level:
Intermediate to Advanced
Materials required:
· Smooth hot pressed watercolour pad A5
· HB pencil
· Sharpener
· Eraser
· Ziplock Sandwich bag with damp paper towel
· Hat and sunscreen
Optional:
· Bring a set of gouches, watercolour and colour pencils that you already have at home.
· House paint colour swatches in red, yellow, and green. Usueful when recording the colours of the rose bush.
· a fold-up stool or chair
Gilbert Dashorst graduated from the North Adelaide School of Art in 1980 before travelling to Europe as a freelance illustrator for two and a half years. Returning to Adelaide in1983, he started as the botanical illustrator for the Botanical Gardens of Adelaide and the State Herbarium, illustrating plant material for scientific publications worldwide; a position he held for almost 30 years, leaving inmid-2012. In 1988, a Churchill Fellowship enabled Gilbert to spend 5 months working with botanists and botanical artists in Leiden (the Netherlands) and one month at Kew (England), enhancing his botanical illustration skills and research into Australian botanical artists. In 1990, Gilbert produced the book “Plants of the Adelaide Plains and Hills” in conjunction with John Jessop, which is now in its third edition. During the period 1986-1994, Gilbert taught scientific illustration at TAFE and also gave sessions to botany students at the University of Adelaide. He also visits schools to explain the role and art of botanical artists.
Images: Courtesy of the artist.
