Art in Nature

Get creative and make art inspired by nature. The Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne is widely admired as a living work of art and one of the world's most beautiful botanic gardens. In this program, students will identify different patterns, colours, textures and forms as they explore the Gardens and use their imagination to create visual artworks in nature.

Students will:

• Identify patterns, colours, textures and forms of plants on a discovery walk

• Create artworks through nature journaling 

• Explore and discover how landscape architects take inspiration from nature

• Create a rubbing

Key focuses:

• Patterns, textures, colours and forms in nature

• Curiosity, wonder and looking with an artist's eye in the natural environment

• Interconnections between art, wellbeing and nature

Curriculum Links:

• Visual Arts

  • Foundation

    • Explore ideas for artworks through play and visual arts processes.  VC2AVAFEO2

  • Levels 1 and 2

    • Use visual conventions, visual art processes and materials to create artworks that communicate ideas, experiences and observations.   VC2AVA2C01

  • Levels 3 and 4

    • Develop visual arts practices by exploring and experimenting with visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials to create artworks.  VC2AVA4D01

  • Levels 5 and 6

    • Plan and create artworks using visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials to communicate ideas, perspectives and meaning  VC2AVA6C01