Workshops & events
Charcoal Drawing Techniques with James Wei
Artist Talk and Afternoon Tea with John Downton OAM
Artist Talk and Afternoon Tea with John Downton OAM
Saturday 17th May 2025
9.30am - 12.30pm, Vincentia
Minimum 6 people – Max 10.
Cost: Members $40, Non Members $60
Pre Booking Essential
In this Workshop, James will help you to explore the use of charcoal sticks in depth, focusing on the properties and expressive potential of charcoal. Learn unique techniques for dynamic changes in points, lines and surfaces, and texture effects, using a variety of media mixing methods (watercolor, ink, pastel, colored pencils).
Use the simplest tools to create vivid and interesting works. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced artist, this course will help you quickly develop your artistic expression through James' amazing minimalist method.
FULL
Artist Talk and Afternoon Tea with John Downton OAM
Artist Talk and Afternoon Tea with John Downton OAM
Artist Talk and Afternoon Tea with John Downton OAM
Saturday 21st June 2025
12.30pm – 3pm, Huskisson
minimum 10, maximum 25 people
Cost: Members $20, Non Members $40
pre booking essential
This is a great opportunity to learn about the painting process from one of Australia’s great painters. John has been painting since 1973 and is a multi awarded artist with work in galleries and museums around the world. He spent years painting plein air with artists like Leonard Long, John Wilson and Warrick Fuller, and his Marine Paintings are so admired that the Royal Australian Navy Fleet Air Arm Museum named their new gallery “The John Downton Gallery”.
John will talk about his painting process from start to finish, giving insight into how to construct a painting from initial sketch to finished work. He will discuss the elements that make a good painting and give tips on sketching.
You won’t want to miss this opportunity to learn from one of our very own greats.
Bring your sketchbooks, notebook , pencils and pen as there will be plenty of information to get down.
Bring a plate to share for afternoon tea.
Creativity Immersion with Healing Sounds Jervis Bay
Artist Talk and Afternoon Tea with John Downton OAM
Demonstration - Contemporary Floral Still Life in Acrylics with Wilma Southan
Sunday 20 July 2025
12.30pm – 3.30pm, Huskisson
Minimum 10 people – Max 25.
Cost: Members $40, Non Members $60
Pre Booking Essential
Immerse yourself in your art practice of choice while listening to the healing power of sound. Enjoy a 2 hour sound bath performed by Healing Sounds Jervis Bay while reconnecting to the deepest parts of your creative spirit.
Allow your creative mind to come to the fore and access realms within your psyche that you can bring into your work.
Let go of all constraints for one afternoon and play in the vibrations of colour, line and sound.
This event is designed to be a fun relaxing afternoon that activates your sense of play and gives you an opportunity to connect back to yourself and access your inner creative, in a supportive and collaborative environment.
Bring your materials of choice. Some new activities will be available for those that want to explore other ideas. If the weather is good we will have tea and cake in the park. Bring a plate to share.
Demonstration - Contemporary Floral Still Life in Acrylics with Wilma Southan
Demonstration - Contemporary Floral Still Life in Acrylics with Wilma Southan
Demonstration - Contemporary Floral Still Life in Acrylics with Wilma Southan
Saturday 2nd August
9am – 12pm, The Hub, Vincentia
Minimum 6 people - Max 10.
Cost: Members $20, Non Members: $40
Pre Booking Essential
Join Wilma Southan as she demonstrates her process in painting a contemporary abstract floral “still life”, taking inspiration from a vase of fresh flowers. Wilma will demonstrate how to make interesting marks, keep colours clean and vibrant and create an energetic piece full of vibrant colour. Wilma will follow up with a workshop in November.
Technique Taster - "Painting" with silk and wool
Demonstration - Contemporary Floral Still Life in Acrylics with Wilma Southan
Technique Taster - "Painting" with silk and wool
Saturday 6th September
9.30amn - 1.30pm
The Hub, Vincentia
Minimum 4 people - Max 15.
Cost: Members $130. Non-members $170.
Pre Booking Essential
Fibre artist Samantha Tannous’s whimsical felt sculptures take traditional felting processes into new spaces to create colourful, textural artworks.
Samantha will help participants create an artwork using silk fibres as the "paint" and wool fibres as the "substrate", blended together into a textile using wet felting techniques.
Make an abstract, landscape or figurative work, or something else!
All materials and equipment provided, including hand-dyed silk "hankies", hand-dyed Australian merino fibres, backing fabrics (cotton muslin), felting soap/bubble wrap etc.
BOOKING COMING SOON
Creative Watercolour with Anne Fry
Demonstration - Contemporary Floral Still Life in Acrylics with Wilma Southan
Technique Taster - "Painting" with silk and wool
Saturday 20 September
9.30-4pm, Maritime Museum Huskisson.
Minimum 6 people - Max 10.
Cost: Members $80. Non-members $120.
Pre Booking Essential
In this workshop we will start with a ‘loosening up’ exercise on yupo paper which Anne will provide. Next we will create a beautiful landscape and learn how to paint the water of a river. Anne will provide the photo reference. A variety of watercolour techniques will be used such as wet in wet, dry brush stroking, maybe applying masking fluid. We will also have some theoretical input that is, ‘what do judges look for when assessing works of art’. Students are encouraged to develop confidence in finding their own artistic expression. This workshop is more suited to intermediate or advanced students (although everyone is welcome).
About Anne
Anne is a watercolour artist. Her aim in creating a work of art is to capture something of the beauty, light and mood of the natural world. Her work is an interpretation or impression that is semirealistic and expressive.
Still Life in Oils with Vanessa Barbay
Sunday 19th October
9.00-4pm
The Hub, Vincentia
Minimum 6 people - Max 7.
Cost: Members $tbc. Non-members $tbc.
Pre Booking Essential
This still life oil painting workshop is presented by Dr Vanessa Barbay and includes a short slide show on the history of the genre infused with theoretical concepts based on John Berger's 'Ways of Seeing' 1972, "The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled."
Students will be guided in learning to see while mixing colours and constructing a painting that explores thin expressive and fat impasto surfaces. The push and pull relationship between figure and ground is also considered.
The still life (supplied) will be installed in the centre of the room with participants working on easels around it.
BOOKING COMING SOON
Contemporary Acrylics with Wilma Southan
Saturday 22nd November
9.30-4pm
Vincentia
Minimum 6 people - Max 10.
Cost: Members $80. Non-members $120.
Pre Booking Essential
Using acrylics and mixed media, Wilma will teach you how to form vibrant Floral Still life and Landscape works. Learn to paint loosely and intuitively in bold colour and create marks with simple things such as a household skewer or sticks.
Freedom of expression is encouraged in this Floral Still Life workshop.
You will be encouraged to create your own handmade stencil and use it to make original markings on printed paper. This in turn will be used in background layers as your painting develops.
We will use a vase of fresh flowers for inspiration only, detail is not necessary and loose painting is encouraged.
The process is to enjoy being creative.
About Wilma
Wilma is a Contemporary artist living in Manyana on the South Coast. She has been tutored in Mallorca, the UK, Italy and Australia. She enjoyed being a ceramicist before continuing on with art and also completed a course in fabric printing
Workshops & Social Events
Charcoal Drawing Techniques with James Wei
Artist Talk and Afternoon Tea with John Downton OAM
Artist Talk and Afternoon Tea with John Downton OAM
Saturday 17th May 2025
9.30am - 12.30pm, Vincentia
Minimum 6 people – Max 10.
Cost: Members $40, Non Members $60
Pre Booking Essential
In this Workshop, James will help you to explore the use of charcoal sticks in depth, focusing on the properties and expressive potential of charcoal. Learn unique techniques for dynamic changes in points, lines and surfaces, and texture effects, using a variety of media mixing methods (watercolor, ink, pastel, colored pencils).
Use the simplest tools to create vivid and interesting works. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced artist, this course will help you quickly develop your artistic expression through James' amazing minimalist method.
FULL
Artist Talk and Afternoon Tea with John Downton OAM
Artist Talk and Afternoon Tea with John Downton OAM
Artist Talk and Afternoon Tea with John Downton OAM
Saturday 21st June 2025
12.30pm – 3pm, Huskisson
minimum 10, maximum 25 people
Cost: Members $20, Non Members $40
pre booking essential
This is a great opportunity to learn about the painting process from one of Australia’s great painters. John has been painting since 1973 and is a multi awarded artist with work in galleries and museums around the world. He spent years painting plein air with artists like Leonard Long, John Wilson and Warrick Fuller, and his Marine Paintings are so admired that the Royal Australian Navy Fleet Air Arm Museum named their new gallery “The John Downton Gallery”.
John will talk about his painting process from start to finish, giving insight into how to construct a painting from initial sketch to finished work. He will discuss the elements that make a good painting and give tips on sketching.
You won’t want to miss this opportunity to learn from one of our very own greats.
Bring your sketchbooks, notebook , pencils and pen as there will be plenty of information to get down.
Bring a plate to share for afternoon tea.
Creativity Immersion with Healing Sounds Jervis Bay
Artist Talk and Afternoon Tea with John Downton OAM
Demonstration - Contemporary Floral Still Life in Acrylics with Wilma Southan
Sunday 20 July 2025
12.30pm – 3.30pm, Huskisson
Minimum 10 people – Max 25.
Cost: Members $40, Non Members $60
Pre Booking Essential
Immerse yourself in your art practice of choice while listening to the healing power of sound. Enjoy a 2 hour sound bath performed by Healing Sounds Jervis Bay while reconnecting to the deepest parts of your creative spirit.
Allow your creative mind to come to the fore and access realms within your psyche that you can bring into your work.
Let go of all constraints for one afternoon and play in the vibrations of colour, line and sound.
This event is designed to be a fun relaxing afternoon that activates your sense of play and gives you an opportunity to connect back to yourself and access your inner creative, in a supportive and collaborative environment.
Bring your materials of choice. Some new activities will be available for those that want to explore other ideas. If the weather is good we will have tea and cake in the park. Bring a plate to share.
Demonstration - Contemporary Floral Still Life in Acrylics with Wilma Southan
Demonstration - Contemporary Floral Still Life in Acrylics with Wilma Southan
Demonstration - Contemporary Floral Still Life in Acrylics with Wilma Southan
Saturday 2nd August
9am – 12pm, The Hub, Vincentia
Minimum 6 people - Max 10.
Cost: Members $20, Non Members: $40
Pre Booking Essential
Join Wilma Southan as she demonstrates her process in painting a contemporary abstract floral “still life”, taking inspiration from a vase of fresh flowers. Wilma will demonstrate how to make interesting marks, keep colours clean and vibrant and create an energetic piece full of vibrant colour. Wilma will follow up with a workshop in November.
Technique Taster - "Painting" with silk and wool
Demonstration - Contemporary Floral Still Life in Acrylics with Wilma Southan
Technique Taster - "Painting" with silk and wool
Saturday 6th September
9.30amn - 1.30pm
The Hub, Vincentia
Minimum 4 people - Max 15.
Cost: Members $130. Non-members $170.
Pre Booking Essential
Fibre artist Samantha Tannous’s whimsical felt sculptures take traditional felting processes into new spaces to create colourful, textural artworks.
Samantha will help participants create an artwork using silk fibres as the "paint" and wool fibres as the "substrate", blended together into a textile using wet felting techniques.
Make an abstract, landscape or figurative work, or something else!
All materials and equipment provided, including hand-dyed silk "hankies", hand-dyed Australian merino fibres, backing fabrics (cotton muslin), felting soap/bubble wrap etc.
BOOKING COMING SOON
Creative Watercolour with Anne Fry
Demonstration - Contemporary Floral Still Life in Acrylics with Wilma Southan
Technique Taster - "Painting" with silk and wool
Saturday 20 September
9.30-4pm, Maritime Museum Huskisson.
Minimum 6 people - Max 10.
Cost: Members $80. Non-members $120.
Pre Booking Essential
In this workshop we will start with a ‘loosening up’ exercise on yupo paper which Anne will provide. Next we will create a beautiful landscape and learn how to paint the water of a river. Anne will provide the photo reference. A variety of watercolour techniques will be used such as wet in wet, dry brush stroking, maybe applying masking fluid. We will also have some theoretical input that is, ‘what do judges look for when assessing works of art’. Students are encouraged to develop confidence in finding their own artistic expression. This workshop is more suited to intermediate or advanced students (although everyone is welcome).
About Anne
Anne is a watercolour artist. Her aim in creating a work of art is to capture something of the beauty, light and mood of the natural world. Her work is an interpretation or impression that is semirealistic and expressive.
Still Life in Oils with Vanessa Barbay
Sunday 19th October
9.00-4pm
The Hub, Vincentia
Minimum 6 people - Max 7.
Cost: Members $tbc. Non-members $tbc.
Pre Booking Essential
This still life oil painting workshop is presented by Dr Vanessa Barbay and includes a short slide show on the history of the genre infused with theoretical concepts based on John Berger's 'Ways of Seeing' 1972, "The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled."
Students will be guided in learning to see while mixing colours and constructing a painting that explores thin expressive and fat impasto surfaces. The push and pull relationship between figure and ground is also considered.
The still life (supplied) will be installed in the centre of the room with participants working on easels around it.
BOOKING COMING SOON
Contemporary Acrylics with Wilma Southan
Saturday 22nd November
9.30-4pm
Vincentia
Minimum 6 people - Max 10.
Cost: Members $80. Non-members $120.
Pre Booking Essential
Using acrylics and mixed media, Wilma will teach you how to form vibrant Floral Still life and Landscape works. Learn to paint loosely and intuitively in bold colour and create marks with simple things such as a household skewer or sticks.
Freedom of expression is encouraged in this Floral Still Life workshop.
You will be encouraged to create your own handmade stencil and use it to make original markings on printed paper. This in turn will be used in background layers as your painting develops.
We will use a vase of fresh flowers for inspiration only, detail is not necessary and loose painting is encouraged.
The process is to enjoy being creative.
About Wilma
Wilma is a Contemporary artist living in Manyana on the South Coast. She has been tutored in Mallorca, the UK, Italy and Australia. She enjoyed being a ceramicist before continuing on with art and also completed a course in fabric printing
OUr Workshops are supported by The
NSW Goverment through CreateNSW
