Our week-on-week short 4 or 8 week courses allow students to immerse themselves in a range of media, learn new skills and become part of our art community. With classes available for beginners, intermediate and advanced students in a range of subjects.
Mid-course enrolments are welcome in many of our courses.
Workshops
For those interested in a one-off session, try our Weekend Workshops which run year-round on Saturdays and Sundays.
Special Offer: Any adult student enrolled in a short course receives a 10% discount on any weekend workshop in the same term, click below for more information:
Our week-on-week courses allow students to immerse themselves in a range of media, learn new skills and become part of our art community. Our classes are available at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels allowing students to follow through a course of study.
Term 2 commences: 6 May for most classes.
Priority Earlybird Enrolment: 5-14 March (current students have early access to re-enrol)
Early Bird Enrolment: 15 March – 8 April (enrolments are open to everyone)
Beginners: Beginner courses build confidence and skills, exploring the fundamentals and theory of art, including drawing, colour and composition across various media. Students are nurtured and encouraged to find their voice.
Intermediate (some experience): More experienced students can build on their skills by focusing on a particular medium in-depth or finessing a style or technique.
Advanced (Masterclass): For students who are confident and experienced and are striving to explore new or traditional techniques.
Line, an essential element of art, offers limitless possibilities for crafting captivating artworks. It serves various purposes, such as defining form, outlining edges, suggesting movement, and highlighting a light source. Beyond its technical aspects, line plays a crucial role in guiding the viewer's gaze and serves as a powerful means to convey thoughts, ideas, and emotions. In this engaging workshop, we embark on an exploration of the sensational qualities of lines. We'll learn...
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Enrol in 3 or more workshops in the one transaction and receive 10% discount on your fees. Discount applied at the checkout. No further discounts apply. No retrospective discounts.
Course Overview Join Mellissa Read-Devine for this bold and vibrant workshop, where you can paint an image of your favourite bird. Bring along images of birds such as fairy wrens, galahs, parrots or cockatoos and infuse your subject with character and personality. Learn to simplify shapes and keep your colours bold and bright, learn about colour mixing, composition and much more. Mellissa is well-known for her impressionistic style of painting, has been the recipient of many awards...
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$195Limited
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Acrylic Painting | Beautiful Birds with Mellissa Read-Devine
Discover the fundamental techniques of oil painting and build your own beautiful collection of masterpieces by artists such as, Raphael, Velasquez, Rembrandt, Vermeer and Leonardo da Vinci. Michelle Hiscock guides you in this practical investigation of classical painting techniques with expert demonstrations of methods and materials including preparation of supports, coloured grounds, tonal underpainting, the palette, colour mixing and structuring oil paint in layers. You will have...
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$540Limited
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Oil Painting after the Masters with Michelle Hiscock
This 4 week course with artist Carol Hudson, packs a wide range of ceramic hand-building techniques into 4 sessions. Designed to inspire, and ignite your creativity, this short course will give you the skills to get you started in making fabulous ceramics works. Carol’s classes are social, fun and rich in ideas and possibilities. She will share her secrets of making refined, beautiful, elegant and simple functional ceramics. What to expect Week 1: Pinch pot method with texture ...
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$300Limited
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Ceramics | Start Up for Beginners with Carol Hudson
This watercolour painting class is perfect for absolute beginners or those who have previously enjoyed Susie's workshops and wish to learn tips and techniques for painting with the tricky medium of watercolour. You will come away with a feeling of wonder and addiction to this extraordinary watery paint and be confident that you can tackle anything. What to expect In this course you will: learn how to keep watercolours transparent and beautiful learn about painting a variety of...
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$200Limited
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Watercolours for Beginners and Beyond Workshop with Susie Murphie
Let award winning portraitist and contemporary artist Mathew Lynn be your guide in the process of critically assessing and transforming your painting and art making! Whether you’d like to go through a process of radical experimentation, or you’d like to fine tune aspects of your practice, Mathew can help you to better understand what you’re trying to achieve, and to help you look with a fresh perspective, and to explore new strategies in your work. Mathew likes to work one-on-one...
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$350Limited
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Painting | Transform the way you paint with Mathew Lynn
Join us for a one-day painting workshop that combines the versatile medium of acrylic paint with the captivating world of mixed media. During this workshop, you can expect to delve into various aspects of acrylic painting and mixed media techniques. Mellissa will demonstrate a range of processes, equipping you with valuable skills and knowledge to enhance your creative expression. What to expect Students will learn: simplifying shapes while maintaining the vibrancy and boldness of...
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$195Limited
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Acrylic Painting | Acrylics and Collage | Mellissa Read-Devine
In this fun hand-building class you will create and decorate a totem based around a theme of interest to you. Perhaps botanical, magical or even abstract. No experience necessary! With her expertise, Lisa will help you plan and realise your ideas. Each participant will make a 60-80cm high ceramic totem for the house or garden. This is a great series of three workshop sessions introducing basic hand-building and glazing techniques, as well as composition and design. Bring along...
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$395Limited
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Ceramic Totems: Fun Forms and Cascading Colours | Three Part Workshop | Lisa Hölzl
This course is about exploring the landscape through drawing and painting. Students can following a step-by-step approach or continue painting at their own pace. We will cover different painting techniques - including tonal underpainting, glazing, scumbling, dry brushing and ‘alla prima’ (wet-in-wet). Students will also learn the basics of colour theory, tone and brush-work, and explore how to unearth their own creative instincts to capture the landscape. Your tutor Michael Simms...
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$350Limited
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Exploring the Landscape with Michael Simms
<p>This course is about exploring the landscape through drawing and painting. Students can following a step-by-step approach or continue painting at their own pace. We will cover different painting
Course Overview Working from images of your own or simple still lives in the studio, learn how to mix and paint the colours of changing light. Workshop theme: The Colour of Shadows and Capturing Light Start with excersises on mixing the colours of shadows on simple objects, and then capture the light in more complex compositions. Tanya will give you tips on managing the water to achieve light and dark colours, and students will learn how to organise their palettes and choose...
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$180Limited
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Working With Watercolour | Tanya Baily | Colour No. 2 - The Colour of Shadows and Capturing Light
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