About

Dr Nita C Lester nita's-image-for-web-site-reduced

 

NOW:

Published new Book ‘Range and Hinterland Gardening’.  LaunchesApril and May  2023.

Guest speaker at a number of Annual General meetings of Garden Club of the Queensland Garden Club Association.  2023

Workshops and classes in botanical art and illustration – 2023

PAST:

2022 – Guest speaker Annual President’s mornnig tea for th e Queensland Garden Club Association

2021-2022 ‘Artistic Endeavour’ – Curator of the exhibtion and President of the Botanical Artsits Society Queensland

2021 – Workhops and classes in watercolour, drawing and botanical illustration

2020- 202 – Workhops in watercolour, drawing and botanical illustration

2019 Winner International Adobe Graphic Design Award

2018 October Art exhibition Maroochy Bushland Botanic Garden

2020 May Queensland Botanical Artiats’ Society Banks and solander Exhibition

28 October Funds for Farmers – do join us. I enjoyed designing this poster.

2017  November 16 – 22   Floressence Botanical Artists Society  Queensland Brisbane Botanic Gardens 9am to 4pm – shared exhibition

2017 March  Maroochy Botanic Garden – exhibition

2016  November 15 -21   Floressence Botanical Artists Society  Queensland Brisbane Botanic Gardens 9am to 4pm – shared exhibition

2016 November 19    Mapleton Community Library Book Sale and mini market    8am to 1pm    Sale of retail goods for Christmas

2016 January Winner of Adobe International Graphic Design Award for an invitation developed for Zonta, Blackall Range Club

2016 May edition Australian Artist Magazine – featured artist.

2016 Noosa Landcare botanical drawing course – March to June

2016 Drawing workshops 1st and 8th May Sunshine Coast, Queensland.  lester.publishing@gmail.com  for details

2016 April 29 at 3 Maple Street, Malney – ‘Artists speak out’  6:30pm

2015  28 August to 4 December Myall Park Botanic Garden Art Gallery

2015  6 October to 7th November  Dalby Art Gallery shared exhibition Glen Morgan Art Group

2015 ‘Birds, Bugs and Botanica’ 4 – 19 April Maroochy Bushland Botanic Garden  10am to 2pm Artist page     Photography page very successful exhibition

2015 Rotary Art Spectacular     A prize winner

2014- 2020 President of the Queensland Botanical Art Society

Winner 100 Australian Women Leaders in Agribusiness

Recent presentations: Queensland Garden Expo, Queensland Garden Clubs, Society of growing Australian Plants

Nita’s passion for the preservation of our land and its biodiversity is reflected in the following quote: ‘We do not inherit this land from our parents, we borrow it from our children’, Mahatma Gandhi.

Email:  lester.publishing@gmail.com    Publishing and graphic designing has kept Nita busy since before Christmas. Contact Nita with your business needs. Nita can assist you to help preserve our flora and flora.

‘Intuition to Inspiration: how to activate and harness latent skills to empower life’ by Phillipa Robertson  $22.50

Colouring book ‘Range of Colours’ $12  colouring book promtional brochure $15

‘Pinpoint’ Children’s story book with fact sheets – see publishing and artist sections of this web site

Review some of Nita’s passions within this web site.