Claire Kathleen Ward

CoPSBA; Botanical & nature artist; natural history illustration tutor; fungi, lichen & orchid hunter in west Wales

[Jellybooks Ltd. @Jellybooks]

It's fungi season! 🍄

An artists guide to finding and illustrating mushrooms and lichens:

'Drawing and Painting Fungi'
by Claire Kathleen Ward @ckbotanica

available to buy from @blackwellbooks
@nhbsBooks @SummerfieldBook & @PemberleyBooks

📖 sample
https://t.co/mgZb02ew6R

[Allthingsfungifestival @allthingsfungi]

Busy planning All Things Fungi Festival 2024 🥳 September 13th-15th Sussex UK 🎟️Tickets 👉 https://t.co/Iur0VRykie #fungi #allthingsfungi

[The Crowood Press @crowoodpress]

Congratulations to Claire Kathleen Ward on the publication of Drawing and Painting Fungi. 🎨

With over 350 illustrations, this book is an essential companion for mycophiles, artists and illustrators as well as all those who love nature.

@ckbotanica #crowood #thecrowoodpress

[Claire Kathleen Ward @ckbotanica]

Monday sees the publish date of my book ‘Drawing and Painting Fungi’. I really hope it’ll be well received.

#fungi #paintingfungi #mushroomart #drawingfungi #fungiart #mushroombook #fungibook

[UK Fungus Day @ukfungusday]

All Things Fungi Festival. 15 - 17 September,
Chiddinglye Estate, East Sussex. Camping, mushroom ID, cultivation, lectures & demonstrations, microscopy, UV nightwalks, workshops, live music... and more! #UKFungusDay
https://t.co/7lEyikT18c
#fungi #mycology #MushroomMonday

[Claire Kathleen Ward @ckbotanica]

@botany_beck Thank you xx

[Claire Kathleen Ward @ckbotanica]

Painting butter boletes on scraps of vellum; they were initially drawn in the sketchbook this time last year.
#vellum #fungiart #fungi #naturesketchbook #mushrooms #boletes

[Claire Kathleen Ward @ckbotanica]

@KayBaird18 Thank you Kay ☺️

[Claire Kathleen Ward @ckbotanica]

Nearly finished this meadow painting with lesser butterfly orchid and heath spotted hybrids.
#botanicalart #botanicalillustration #orchids #meadow

[Claire Kathleen Ward @ckbotanica]

@cathybotanic Thanks Cathy, I’m hoping they’ll be ok for the RHS one day!

[Claire Kathleen Ward @ckbotanica]

More work on these orchid paintings. Ophrys apifera and D. incarnata ssp coccinea
#orchids #botanicalart #botanicalillustration #wildflowers #dunes #welshflora

[Claire Kathleen Ward @ckbotanica]

@botany_beck Wow, thanks 😊💕

[Claire Kathleen Ward @ckbotanica]

@donnarainey4 @botany_beck Thank you Donna 😊

[Claire Kathleen Ward @ckbotanica]

@SimonOntheverge Yes that’s be great! 🍄💕

[Claire Kathleen Ward @ckbotanica]

@McalisterAndrew Thank you 🙏

[Claire Kathleen Ward @ckbotanica]

@TheMathersFoun1 Thank you 🙏

[Claire Kathleen Ward @ckbotanica]

@SimonOntheverge Thanks Simon, just passion for the plants and practise! Passionate practise! 😆

[Claire Kathleen Ward @ckbotanica]

@DrTrevorDines Thank you, this really means a lot to me, as these special places do!

[Claire Kathleen Ward @ckbotanica]

@pengraiggoch That’s fantastic, not many places left with the lesser butterfly now.

[Claire Kathleen Ward @ckbotanica]

Painting Plantago with yellow rattle, lousewort and orchids.
#welshmeadow #meadow #watercolour #botanicalillustration

[Claire Kathleen Ward @ckbotanica]

My first Poplar hawk moth, those antennae!! 🥰 #moth #hawkmoth