Drawn Together:
Sotto Bosco
with Lily Buchanan
Drawn Together: Sotto Bosco with Lily Buchanan
Entry
£5 low income / £8 standard entry / £11 pay it forward
Date
Fri 4 Sep 2026
Time
6–8pm. Bar open until 9pm.
Location
Clore Learning Studio
Turner Contemporary
Drawn together is our 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, inspired by the 17th-century still-life painting genre of Sotto Bosco, led by artist Lily Buchanan.
Sotto bosco, Italian for 'undergrowth' or 'forest floor', celebrates the magical symbolism of the forest floor, and in this workshop, participants will do just that. Come along, 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 Community Gardens in Margate, combined with everyday objects (commenting on our contemporary environment), set up for you to draw from on a lovely September evening in The Drawing Studio.
Materials are included, and all levels of drawing experience are 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.
