Established by Rachel & James de Candole in 2018, the Transylvania school of botanic art & illustration in Romania is a family-run residential school dedicated to the observation, illustration and conservation of the flora of Transylvania.  

The school sits in the grounds of the family's home in Copşa Mare, a small village surrounded by  farmed grassland, wood pasture and tens of thousands of hectares of oak, beech & hornbeam. 

The de Candole family is a founding subscriber to the exceptionally rare Transylvania Florilegium, a valuable part of the school's botanical library
and its teaching. 

Here is Margaret Best on the school and its setting. 

James de Candole has the details