Drawn Together: Sotto Bosco with Lily Buchanan

Drawn together is our new monthly drawing social. Everyone is welcome to these relaxed sessions, encouraging you to have a go and express yourself, whether you're new to drawing or a seasoned sketcher.

Join us for a very special evening of still life drawing led by artist Lily Buchanan inspired by the 17^th Century still life painting genre Sotto Bosco. 

Sotto Bosco, Italian for Undergrowth or Forest Floor, celebrates the magical symbolism of the forest floor and we will be doing just that. Come and get lost in your drawings of this mysterious undergrowth world and pick up some drawing knowledge from Lily along the way.

The still life will be made up of beautiful plants and flowers borrowed from the Windmill Allotments in Margate combined with everyday objects (commenting on our contemporary environment) set up for you to draw from on a lovely light September evening in the wonderful drawing studio at the Turner. Materials are included and all levels of drawing experience welcome.


About the artist

Lily Buchanan (born in Dundee in 1989) is an artist living and working in Margate. After graduating from Central Saint Martin’s with a 1st class BA Hons and The Royal Drawing School’s Drawing Year, Lily studied an MA in Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School, graduating in 2022. Buchanan’s works lie in a dream world made up of sources from her memories, her everyday environment and her emotions. Desire is a key theme in her work and she uses drawing and painting to explore surreal situations that we might find ourselves in when seeking out our desires. The objects in her work are charged with an active symbolist quality that comes from the memories they hold and their own potential consciousness.
Buchanan sees the setting of the woods and the undergrowth in her work as a place of transformation through their association with childhood memories of getting lost in wonder.