The Tropical Ravine is hosting a free artist show-and-tell session focused on stained-glass work created with pigments made from plant offcuts.
Belfast City Council’s event information lists artist Kerrie Hanna as leading the session at the Tropical Ravine. Visitors can drop in to watch how she works with plant material to create stained-glass art and can get involved in making artwork during the event.
Hanna is described by the council as artist in residence at Botanic Gardens, Palm House and Tropical Ravine. Her work explores and interprets the plant collections and natural heritage in those spaces, using offcuts from plants as the basis for natural colour palettes.
The session connects the Tropical Ravine’s botanical setting with a practical demonstration of art-making. Rather than treating the plant collections only as exhibits, the event shows how material from the gardens can be transformed into pigments and then used in original stained-glass pieces.
The council lists the event as a free drop-in session at the Tropical Ravine, running from 1.30pm to 3pm. It also notes that there will be an exhibition of artworks in October, linking the show-and-tell activity with a wider body of work developed through the residency.
For visitors, the event offers a close look at the process behind the finished glass pieces, from plant offcuts to colour and artwork. It places the Tropical Ravine’s natural heritage at the centre of a creative session led by an artist working directly with the site’s plant collections.