Welcome To My Studio!

In this one-day live workshop, you will join me in my home studio along with no more than five other creatives for an intimate learning experience inside the space where my art is made and my art business runs.

In the early days of my own painting journey, I craved the intimate, insider-knowledge of how a thriving art studio worked.  I wanted to see, touch and smell every detail of what worked for them in their professional art practice and why.

Because, even though I couldn’t quite admit it to myself at the time, a professional artist was what I dreamed to be.  I was lucky enough to have a few creative and brilliant friends that allowed me to step inside their studio and what I learned was invaluable.

This is what my studio insider workshops are all about – a chance to share my knowledge and open up my work-space to fellow artists and curious creatives wherever they happen to be on their creative journey. During this luscious day of creative, hands on exploration you will have the opportunity to paint with my materials and tools, giving you and inside look at how I paint and work as an artist in my everyday life.

Not only will you be receiving hands-on instruction in my painting style, you will be in my studio, amongst the commissions, series and projects I am currently working on. And you get to pick my brains about all of it.

We will work in a similar rhythm to the way that I do in my own art practice working on both heavy cotton paper and canvas, all supplied by me.  Throughout the day we will progress through our layers on our rotating substrates while the previous layers dry.  You will take home three paintings, one of which will be on a 20” x 30″ canvas.

This workshop is 100% suitable for both beginner and experienced painters, and many inexperienced artists have left feeling surprised in what they have achieve in just one day.

When:

This is a one-day live workshop that runs between 10am and 5pm.

It is an intimate experience limited to just 6 people per workshop.

For available dates, please click the link below.

Where:

The workshop will take place in my studio at my home in Soldiers Hill, which is an inner-city suburb of historic Ballarat. It is just 90 minutes from Melbourne and easily reached by train, bus or car.  There are many lovely accomodation options available close by. You will be given my street address along with some accomodation suggestions in the welcome back you receive upon registration.

* We ask that you advise us of any dietary requirements in the registration form you will fill out at the checkout.

** Please note that we will be eating lunch at a local café which is not included in the price.  They offer Gluten Free and Vegetarian meals. Please email us about any other dietary requirements.

I will be sharing lots of information on:

• How to prepare and work on both paper and canvas (including un-stretched canvas)

• Colour theory and colour mixing.

• Composition

• Exploring different mixed media techniques such as oil and wax pastels, stencils and paint pens.

• Working in a series, why this works, and how to sell it.

• How I navigate my commission painting process (including getting clients, creating commission proposals, creating studies and much more)

• My easy method of taking Insta-worthy photos and how to collate them into effective social media strategy.

• How I sell and ship work both domestically and overseas.

What you will have access to:

• Professional quality Acrylic paints

• Sennelier Oil Pastels

• Caran d’Ache Watersoluble wax pastels

• 100% Cotton, Archival 300gsm watercolour paper

• Painter’s tape

• One 20” x 30” Artist’s finest cotton heavy duty stretched Canvas

• Coffee, Tea and Snacks*

What you need to bring:

• An Apron (or something else to keep you clean)

• A selection of Brushes (which I will email you about)

• Your curiosity and enthusiasm.