Heather Glenny: Biography
Heather has been interested in drawing and painting since early childhood but finally joined some adult education evening classes around 1978 to gain experience and tuition in flower painting. She also had lessons privately with a well-known artist in the Cranleigh area. Heather gained further knowledge and skills by completing a John Blockley landscape watercolour course during the 1980’s.
Around this time she successfully sold many of her paintings locally, but during the next ten years Heather had tough family and work commitments, so art was put ‘on hold’ although she was able to complete a course for teaching adults and subsequently taught beginners art classes for a few years.
Since retiring to Sussex in 2004, she has been developing her art by attending additional art classes and experimenting with different media. In the last decade she has completed both botanical and wildlife classes and landscape workshops tutored by well known professional artists.
My new book 'Noteworthy Nature in and around Horsham town' is all about natural history and what you can find in your own garden, Chesworth Farm, The Museum Garden, Warnham Local Nature Reserve, Horsham's Green Spaces, and the Wilding of the Knepp Estate. It includes birds, flowers, insects fauna, and fungi that I have seen. The RRP is £12.99, and the ISBN number is 978-1-80381-483-4. Buy from Amazon here.
Any other queries, please email heathereglenny@gmail.com.
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Heather is a member of the Association of Sussex Artists, The Horsham School of Botanical Artists (HSBA), and is a Group Leader of a Horsham U3A Painting Group.
With the HSBA Heather is working on botanical paintings of some special plants requested by Leonardslee Gardens for a Florilegium Collection to be exhibited there in March 2024.
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