A new art workshop is looking to open our eyes to what’s outside, even when many of us would rather be inside during this winter.

The Wilton Wildlife Preserve is trying to help everyone find inspiration through the plants and flowers surrounding us in Upstate New York. The nature preserve is holding a special botanical art workshop.   

You don’t have to be a great artist, or even a half decent artist to join the February 4 event at the Wilton Wildlife Preserve. Art Director Bella Osborn is guiding participants through easy techniques to draw some of Upstate New York most popular flowers and botanical life.

Through the process of figuring out how to capture these beautiful parts of nature onto paper, Osborn said you’re also going to discover many of the hidden secrets about them.

Osborn explained that by simply drawing nature, it expands our appreciation for the wide world around us.

“Even when you’re outside, it’s cold, it’s windy, you’re freezing, you’re cold, you’re mad at the world because your nose is falling off, take a look down and look at the fiddleheads popping out of the snow. Take a moment and look at the overwintering ferns that you didn’t notice before,” Osborn says. “It allows you to stop, take a breath, and have an appreciation not only for nature, but for the life that you’ve been given.”

You can join the Wilton Wildlife Preserve & Park on Tuesday February 4, from 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.  Sign up on their website, www.wiltonpreserve.org , or email info@wiltonpreserve.org.