Nature Craft Series

Get closer to Abney’s amazing flora and fauna while also learning more about some of the great and good people buried at Abney Park. This monthly series will teach children and their parents nature-based skills while drawing inspiration from painters such as Edward Calvert, firefighters such as James Braidwood, singers like George Leyburn and nurses like Betsi Cadwaladr.

Edward Calvert in particular was a talented painter and printmaker who lived in Dalston, Hackney in the 1800s. He loved to create beautiful paintings and prints of nature and mythical gods and goddesses.

Take inspiration from Edward by making natural paints and paintbrushes using Abney Park’s plants and berries, and then create your own artwork. You can invent your own design using your paints and brushes - or if you feel inclined, recreate one of Edwards’s most famous paintings of the natural or mythical world – such as "Oak Trees in Summer".

Speaker biography

Hackney Outdoors CIC helps urban children, young people and adults to connect and learn with nature through outdoor learning and education activities in London's wild spaces. It is run by Forest School trainee, scout leader and local Hackney mum, Nina Lovelace.

https://www.hackneyoutdoors.co.uk/

Please meet at the Stoke Newington High Street entrance 5 minutes before the event starts.