WORKSHOPS
Workshops are a way to extend our skills, refine our art-making and stimulate new art-making practices. Our workshops foster an appreciation of each others’ art-making in the presence of expert guidance from the tutor.
Members have priority booking.
For more information contact the workshops coordinator at: workshops@blackheathart.com
WORKSHOP PROGRAM FOR 2022
For COVID precautions for workshops please see the HOME page.
Workshop: MappingYour Garden. An Introduction to Drypoint Etching
Tutor: Jan Melville
Dates: 21-22 May 2022
Time: 10am – 4pm
Member fee: $140
Non-member fee: $180
Closing date: Wednesday 18th of May 5pm.
Workshop description:
Taking inspiration from your garden or the surrounding environment of the Blue Mountains Jan will take us through using Drypoint which is a simple form of etching created on plastic plates. This medium is suitable for beginners and intermediate and a lovely way to start making your work.
About the tutor
Jan Melville is a printmaker, assemblage artist and maker of artist books. She lives and works in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains. She has been a teacher in printmaking for over 25 years and an invited artist–in–residence in Italy, Ireland and the UK. and a guest printmaker at the Tyler Print Institute in Singapore.
Website: http://janmelvilleprintmaker.weebly.com/about.html
Workshop: Learn to paint with Still Life acrylics
Tutor: Charlotte Thodey
Dates:4th & 5th February 2023
Time: 10am – 4pm
Member fee: $160
Non-member fee: $200
Workshop description:
With an appreciation and respect of individuals style we will work on close up observation and light, composition and setting the painting tonally.
Then we proceed to the building up and layering of colour to capture the light.
We explore the “still life” genre using seasonal fruit vegetables and foliage
Each student can expect to complete 2-3 paintings.
About the tutor
Charlotte likes cabbages.
‘They are both simple and complex.
Painting involves layering their leaves to the light, all while the cabbage itself is decaying on duty.
When I need to see an analyst, I paint a cabbage instead… then I’m right’.
Charlotte has been painting and exhibiting for 40 years. She exhibits in Australia, New Zealand, and Chateau de Villandry in France. She teaches still life painting at Sydney Botanic Gardens and Sturt School in Mittagong, NSW.
‘Initially the ‘Still Life’ genre in early Dutch paintings was to show plenty in time of scarcity. Nowadays I want to show simplicity in times of plenty. To focus on the ordinary. It’s the shaft of morning light on over ripe plums on a kitchen bench’.
Charlotte runs with the seasons, capturing an array of fruit and vegetables in all its luscious glory.
‘I start trying to keep things simple and drown in complexity and pattern … looking for the life. So ‘still life’ is not so still. It captures a moment in time … the seed, the glory moment and the blemishes … before decay’.
https://www.charlottethodey.com
Jan Melville
21-22 May
Now open for BAS members to register
Registrations close 10.5.22
See above for details of this workshop
Charlotte Thodey
4-5 February 2023
Now open for mebers and non-members.
See above for details of this workshop
Roslyn Kean
In discussion currently
Clara Hali
In discussion currently