Butterflies

Butterfly Education and Awareness Day (BEAD), on Sat 7 June 2025, highlights their importance in pollination and ecosystems.  Simple actions like planting nectar-rich native flowers and hosting butterfly-friendly gardens can help protect them. The day promotes learning, visits to butterfly reserves, citizen science projects, and community events to raise awareness and support conservation efforts.

Butterflies have existed for over 50 million years, with 56 native species in the UK and Ireland. They’re admired for their beauty, featured in art and literature, and used to teach about nature. As indicator species, they help monitor biodiversity and pollution.

Monarch butterfly on pink salvia emerged from a chrysalis (Wirestock-Freepik)

Art inspiration;

🎨 Draw your favourite species of butterfly, with their symmetrical wings, intricate and vibrant colours.

🎨 Create simple cartoon butterflies using basic shapes, then add details. Perhaps add a meadow

🎨 You may wish to make a mobile for your butterflies. Gather some materials.

🎨 Draw butterfly wing patterns inspired by real designs.

🎨 Design a wildlife habitat where butterflies dance in a meadow.

🎨 Does the lifecycle of the butterfly fascinate you, or a stage of this? Focus on a life stage and represent this as your transformation artwork.

🎨 Explore butterfly-themed masks for masquerade balls. Create yours.

Butterflies symbolise growth, transformation, and new beginnings, spirit messengers (Pinterest)

This will be an awesome session, as butterflies conjure up so many different meanings for different people, exciting... Your inspiration may lead you to clothing design, or masks for balls? Perhaps you see yourself in a wild flower meadow? This brief is so vast; let your imagination run wild xx

Please join for a relaxed art session. It will be a great evening of creativity, and as always, we will support each other! Bring your cuppa and snacks along. Use any media you wish, it's your choice, try something new, there's plenty of people who have a lot of different experiences of using media so can offer advice if you need some.

See you all soon 🙂 Wednesday evening, 7:30 pm UK time. Please join us on link-tree, select All4Art https://linktr.ee/all4inclusion