Join us via Zoom on Tuesday, January 26, 2020 at 3:00 p.m. for a talk and demonstration on botanical drawing and painting with local artist Susan Pettee. Susan will discuss her work illustrating the book The Garlands of the Gods: Wild Flowers from the Greek Ruins of Sicily, with text by Mary Taylor Simeti.
Click here to join the meeting.
For the travelers coming to Sicily on the Grand Tour, the encounter with the luxuriant vegetation of the Mediterranean was as aesthetically and emotionally moving as the sight of the classical ruins they had come to view, and encounter that was almost always enhanced by some knowledge of botany and by a thorough education in the classics. The Garlands of the Gods is an attempt to restore the fullness of this “Sicilian experience” to today’s travelers, providing them with historical, botanical, and mythological information about Sicily’s spectacular wild flowers.
Susan Pettee lives in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. She studied botanical painting at the Corcoran in Washington, DC, and with Anne-Marie Evans at the English Gardening School in London and received a certificate in Botanical Paining from the Society of Botanical Artists in England in 2007. She has exhibited in New York; Washington, DC; Paris and Périgeus, France; and in several towns in the Berkshires. Susan is a member of the American Society of Botanical Artists, the New England Society of Botanical Artists, and the Guild of Berkshire Artists.