Our students spend a full week observing & drawing wild plants in the grassland above Copşa Mare.
Periods of intensive study at your desk in our studio filled with northern light are balanced with fieldwork in this farmed landscape, home to some 300 species of flowering plants.
Our resident botanist Mihaela Sava is creating a grassland herbarium for the school. She leads an international team of illustrators producing a field guide.
Our botanical library includes the Transylvania Florilegium. This splendid collection of paintings of local plants is a valuable part of the teaching. We hold as well the complete set of Stella Ross-Craig's Drawings of British Plants, an essential reference for botanical artists striving for accuracy.
The school is an exceptional place to stay as well as to study. Food is grown & prepared by your hosts. We serve good regional wines. And you have a comfortable bed in your own room.
A guest described her stay like this:
"A week-long house party for artistic guests with a thing about plants."
Here is Işık Güner writing about her class Transylvania Meadows
John Akeroyd's local field guides
Indicator plants | Indicator butterflies | Grasslands
Paul White's observations on the
flora & fauna of Transylvania
IAPI's The Role & Value of Botanical Illustration Today
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Photo by Sharon Schuster Thiollier