Tutor feature: Kate French

Kate French has been a practising artist in the field of sculpture and painting for twenty years. Her sculptural speciality is the Human Face. For the past eight years she has been teaching Sculptural Portraiture, in various formats, at venues around the country.

Kate's ability to relate to, and teach all levels of experience makes her the most sought after Tutor in this field in Australia. Read more >

Workshop focus: ArtWorkshops Australia

ArtWorkshops Australia provides a widening path for the Artistic Journey - from novice to advanced practitioner - by inspiring each student to discover and develop new practical skills and their own unique personal expression, when guided by Australia's most acclaimed Artists.

The workshops are suitable for aspiring artists of all ages and levels of skill. Read more >

Calendar of Events

The next three months are jam packed with a large variety of workshops available for you to join and be creative.

View calendar for April 2009

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Workshop review: Contemporary Acrylics Workshop with Larissa Blake

I’ve always admired Larissa Blake’s work, especially the colour and vibrancy she captures in her paintings, so when I found out that she was running this workshop at the Art Est Art School in Leichhardt, I knew that I didn’t want to miss it.

The rooms at the Art Est Art School are large and well-lit and each person is supplied with their own easel and plenty of space to spread your paints and brushes on. This was certainly appreciated. There is also plenty of parking on site. Read more >

Art Melbourne 2009

The Weekend Australian Art Melbourne is Melbourne’s affordable and collectable art fair. The fair brings together 100 galleries selling work from over 800 artists all under one roof. Located at the Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton, Art Melbourne offers something for every budget as well as educational art walks, art activities for children and entertainment. With many of the artists on site, Art Melbourne is the perfect place to discover, learn about and buy the art you love.

Seek out exciting new artists and browse the thousands of paintings, sculpture, ceramics, photography, indigenous works, new media art and works on paper, including limited edition prints.

General ticket cost $15* each in advanced. Friday – Sunday include Friday Night Live (late close and live music)!

VIP First Night preview party on Thursday 16th April offers you the exclusive opportunity to see and buy the art on sale first whilst enjoying complimentary drinks and live entertainment. Tickets are $50* including complimentary drinks and entry to a subsequent day of the fair.
* Transaction fee applies to tickets purchased through Ticketek.

For further information – www.artmelbourne09.com.au

Tickets available now – www.ticketek.com or 132 849

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Chit Chat

Teresa's battle with the motor sports park proposal drags on but early in March her neighbour was driving home from work and spotted a Koala in a tree just outside their property. This was just wonderful as although there have been many spottings of koalas in the area over the years no one has an actual photo. So here it is - proof of koalas living in the area proposed to become a motor bike park.

This past month Teresa has enjoyed working with oil pastels and has completed a couple of plein air works. The first painting is of a mangrove river system in Bryon Bay and the second was inspired by the dunes and the sound of Culburra Beach. Teresa would love to have some further tutoring in oil pastels so if anyone out there loves them as much as Teresa, please contact Teresa.

Stephanie is looking forward to some time off over Easter with the intention of consolidating the painting process she has learnt from Larissa Blake.

Enjoy a safe and relaxing Easter break.

Teresa and Stephanie