Join me for an evening in my West Seattle garden, hosted by RevelEleven. In addition to touring the garden we’ll sip on non-alcoholic pairings from The NA Sommelier and enjoy light bites and bubbles.
In this workshop, Lorene will talk about color, it’s role in a pleasing landscape, and how her creative practice has introduced an expansiveness to the way she views the world. All students will participate in a hands-on exercise using watercolors to record colors found in fragments of the natural world, a tiny blossom, a leaf, or a twig. This is not botanical illustration, but an exercise in learning to see with fresh eyes, and an opportunity to slow down, focus, and savor the season.
No experience needed, all materials included
Hands-on Color Workshop with Lorene Edwards Forkner with the Penninsula Arts League
Free presentation to the Penninsula Arts League
Private presentation to the Mercer Island Women’s Club
Hands-on Color Workshop presented by the Northwest Horticultural Society with Lorene Edwards Forkner
Hands-on Color Workshop with Lorene Edwards Forkner at the Fleurs Creative Studio in Snohomish, WA.
Private presentation to the Mill Creek Garden Club.
Hands-on Color Workshop with Lorene Edwards Forkner at the Fleurs Creative Studio in Snohomish, WA.
Spend an evening with Lorene Edwards Forkner & Bridget Beth Collins in a field of lavender on the Summer Solstice. This event is a part of the King County Library System Foundation’s Authors Salon Series.
It’s Pollinator Month! Discover how home gardens can be a seductive invitation to environmental stewardship.
Connect with Color is a live Demo with Lorene Edwards Forkner
Color In and Out of the Garden, an illustrated slide lecture with Lorene Edwards Forkner
Gardening Matters — From tree canopy to ground covers with Lorene Edwards Forkner
Growing Great Vegetables, an illustrated talk with Lorene Edwards Forkner
Come explore the beauty of the Dunn Gardens and learn to develop a new understanding of color. A fundraising event for Plant Amnesty
Cancelled due to COVID exposure: Watercolor workshop at New York Botanical Garden
CANCELLED: due to COVID exposure Dan Lambe, CEO of the Arbor Day Foundation, in conversation with Lorene Edwards Forkner
An online presentation for the Meeting of Like Minds series with Plant Amnesty.
A Day Away at Heyday Farm with Social Creative Workshops
Chelsea Fringe comes to Seattle
A virtual lecture with the Victoria Hardy Plant Group
We’re celebrating the launch of my new book, Color In and Out of the Garden, watercolor practices for painters, gardeners, and nature lovers! (Abrams)
The Northwest Flower & Garden Festival is BACK!!
Color is the most obvious element of a garden and an essential tool in the creation of a pleasing landscape. We’ll explore the nature of color, perception, distinguishing nuance, and introduce the mindful benefits of using color to sustain concentration and focus. Expanding our ability to recognize the generous multiplicity of color informs our creativity across a variety of disciplines, in and out of the garden—color has the power to move us.
Meet me in the HOOD ROOM — Book signing to follow
The Northwest Flower & Garden Festival is BACK!
Whether you’re new to growing or a well-seasoned green thumb, cultivating a garden in the Pacific Northwest is a continuing education as well as a nearly constant feast. Learn to get the most from your plot by planning and planting for both warm and cool growing seasons. Discover how to integrate edibles with ornamental plantings along with small garden-friendly strategies designed to produce maximum flavor from any size plot.
Meet me in the HOOD ROOM — Book signing to follow
The Northwest Flower & Garden Festival is BACK!!
Get the scoop on expert container creation and curation as my good friend Sue Goetz and I face off in a friendly competition. Working with identical plant materials, we each will have 1 hour to put together three gorgeous (we hope!) container compositions under the tender encouragement (and razzing) of local garden celebrity Marianne Binetti. I promise, it’ll be big fun!
Catch us on the Main Stage in the North Hall.
ANSWER: An outrageously fun time! QUESTION: What is “Garden Jeopardy?” Jeopardy fans rejoice! Back by popular acclaim, Ciscoe Morris is taking your favorite game show to a whole new level with “Garden Jeopardy Round 2,” live and only on the NWFGF seminar stage! He’ll be challenging 2 teams with 3 knowledgeable plant geeks, to answer garden-related questions in the usual Jeopardy format. So be prepared for Ciscoe’s usual hijinks as he tries to stump local garden luminaries Lorene Edwards Forkner, Sue Goetz, Marianne Binetti, Greg Butler, Jim Fox and Karen Chapman, and learn about gardening at the same time!
In writing The Earth in Her Hands, Jennifer Jewell learned how the women profiled creatively navigated the challenging ideal of work-life balance. The main lesson? Balance is not a destination but an ongoing and highly dynamic process. In this conversation, Jewell will map common challenges, coping mechanisms, and solutions through the womens' careers, and then chat with designer and author Christin Geall, of Cultivated; Lorene Edwards Forkner, author, artist, editor emeritus of Pacific Horticulture; and Debra Prinzing, founder of SlowFlowers.com and the Slow Flowers Podcast.
I’m absolutely thrilled to be featured in Jennifer’s new book, The Earth in Her Hands, 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants, due out March 3, 2020 from Timber Press. Go here to read more and pre-order this beautiful and empowering book.
Color is one of nature’s most sophisticated tools engineered to capture the attention of all living creatures. Since early 2018, Lorene has maintained a daily practice of capturing fresh botanicals in simple watercolor gestures and posting the studies to Instagram. Lorene will share her motivation, process and progress in exercising concentration and exploring the garden with fresh eyes. Slow down, discover hidden hues, and enhance your approach to designing with color.
NOTE: rescheduled due to snow.
This workshop is open to members of the Northwest Horticultural Society. Visit their website for details.
