The Bowral Art Gallery is open during exhibitions from 10am to 4pm
Please check calendar for current exhibitions.
The office is open on Monday to Friday from 9am till 4pm
The BDAS follows all NSW Government Covid stay-safe-rules.
WORKSHOPS 2023
For workshop hire enquiries & other information contact Fiona or Vivienne on 4861 4093
Note: All students, teachers and tutors in all courses must be financial members of the BDAS
Contact tutors to find out more information and to book directly into their classes.
Open Studios
Thursdays
Studios 1 will be open to the BDAS members on Thursdays during the holidays from 9am until 4pm
Thursday 28 September
Thursday 5 October
All BDAS members are welcome!
This is a chance to join other BDAS members in the holidays and to paint and draw in the studios.
These sessions are non tutored and you can come for the whole day or a morning or afternoon session.
Listed below are upcoming weekend workshops at the BDAS in 2023
Footstool Upholstery workshop with Fiona & Steve - 17 February
Completed
Chair Repair School with Fiona & Steve - 18 & 19 February
Completed
Acrylic Plus Workshop with Kerry McInnis - 25 & 26 February
Completed
Impressionist Landscape & Florals with Mellissa Read-Devine
18 & 19 March Completed
Intermediate to Advanced Watercolour with Gillian Hook
25 & 26 March Completed
Portrait Drawing Workshop with Noel Thurgate - 15 & 16 April
Completed
Sculptural Weaving Workshop with Sarah Norton 15 April
Completed
Chair Repair School with Fiona & Steve - 29 & 30 April Completed
Sculptural Weaving Workshop with Sarah Norton 27 May Completed
Tonality Painting Workshop with Maryanne Wick - 27 & 28 May Completed
Still Life Painting Workshop for Intermediate with Gilda Wilson
8 & 9 July
The Pastel Landscape with Amanda McLean - 15 & 16 July
Macro Flora Painting Workshop with Tracey Miller - 30 July
Beginners' Art Taster - Graphite, charcoal, soft pastel & paint with Tracey Miller - 13 August
Ink on Yupo Art Workshop with Tracey Miller - 27 August
Encaustic Workshop with Mo Godbeer 2 & 3rd September
Watercolour Workshop for Beginners with Gillian Hook
9 & 10 September
Chair Repair School with Fiona & Steve - 23 & 24 September
Life Drawing Workshop with Noel Thurgate - 23 & 24 September
Spring Workshop Peter Wale - 21 & 22 October - details tba
© above image by Noel Thurgate
Image by Mellissa Read Devine
Sculptural Weaving by Sarah Norton
© above image by Maryanne Wick
© above image by Kerry McInnis
© above image from Tracey Miller's Macro workshop
Still Life Painting Workshop for Intermediate
with Gilda Wilson
8 & 9 July 2023 10am till 4:30pm
Cost: $210 BDAS Members $250 non-members
This course is designed for participants with intermediate painting experience.
In this very small class, learn to paint a still life using a limited palette and understated composition.
The weekend will start with a drawing working out tone and composition. We will talk about colours, their relationship and how to obtain luminous colours. Gilda will help you selecting colours as well as laying out your palette. Examples of other still life artist will be discussed; we will look at their techniques and composition style.
For more information and booking contact Gilda directly at gildawilson@yahoo.com or on 0403 813 873.
A list of materials will be sent at the time of booking.
© images by Gilda Wilson
The Pastel Landscape
with Amanda McLean
2 Day Pastel workshop
15 & 16 July 2023 9am till 4pm
Cost: $220 BDAS Members $270 non-members
This workshop will give you a good grounding in Pastel whether you have worked in the medium before or not. We will do some basic exercises and then
participants are invited to work from their own reference material to create Landscapes in Pastel. This is not a “Paint by Numbers” class and participants are encouraged to develop or follow their own style.
Classes are run at Bowral Art Studios, 1 Short Street, Bowral.
Contact the office to book into Amanda's workshop.
Book: 4861 4093 or office@bdasgallery.com
© images by Amanda McLean
30 July 2023
10am - 4pm
$150 - you provide all your materials
$250 - all materials provided
Create your own, beautiful, large-scale flora painting. Tracey has many years of art experience and will guide beginner and intermediate artists through the steps to create their own artwork.
When researching a reference image, you might consider all types of flora including seaweeds, fungi, seed pods like banksia, palms, fruits, flowers, etc Please do not copy another artist’s painting or drawing. Take your own photos or copy a photograph from the internet. Ensure it is not digitally manipulated. You are welcome to email me your selected flora and I’ll advise you if it’s going to easily translate into a painting.
Everyone bring your reference image, cloth to cover the table, an apron, lunch and coffee mug.
Materials: Please wear old clothes and an apron.
We will follow safe Covid 19 guidelines.
Morning and afternoon tea are provided.
Reference: Bring an image of flora that you would like to paint.
Print one a 1/3 and another a ½ of an A4 page size on regular copy paper. The easiest way to do this is to copy and paste the image onto a word document and adjust the size accordingly.
To book in contact Tracey traceymillermail@gmail.com
Beginners' Art Taster Workshop
Graphite, Charcoal, Soft Pastel & Paint
13 August 2023
10am - 4pm
$160 - all materials provided
Experiment with a variety of mediums to create drawings and paintings. After an introduction about materials and subjects, we will explore drawing using graphite and charcoal. Then we will use soft pastels on textured paper and conclude with an acrylic painting.
Beginners will have fun learning about “how to see” and how to use art materials to create images on paper. You will take home four artworks.
What to bring: A cloth to cover the table, an apron, lunch and a coffee mug. Please wear old clothes and an apron. Morning and afternoon tea are provided.
To book in contact Tracey traceymillermail@gmail.com
with Tracey Miller
27 August 2023
10am - 4pm
$160
Included: Tuition, inks, yupo, gloves, masks, morning tea & coffee.
Alcohol inks create vibrant transparent colour unlike any other medium form interesting patterns within your painting. The vibrant colours of the ink intermingle creating unique textural effects, often leading to unexpected results.
Each participant will leave with several experimental pieces.
Tracey has many years of experience guiding beginner and intermediate artists in creating pieces they proudly cherish. This workshop is perfect for those who just don’t have the time to commit to a full class term OR want to try something new.
Please bring: Your own apron, coffee cup, lunch and enthusiasm.
To book in contact Tracey traceymillermail@gmail.com
Encaustic Workshop
with Mo Godbeer
2 -3 September
Cost $250 members, $290 non members
Beginners Welcome – All Materials Provided!
Encaustic collage is an exciting and fun way to unleash your creative potential. In this two-day workshop, we will be paper rusting, bleaching, mono printing, embedding, image transferring, and much more!
You will learn how to combine objects, images and words, with encaustic, to capture a mood, tell a story or express a feeling to bring your artwork to life.
Encaustic medium is the perfect partner for collage. It is not only the glue to bind things together, but also can be worked on top of, scratched and embedded into. It can be painted on, textured onto and so much more!
There will be lots of unique materials, objects, vintage imagery and handmade papers provided for you to use. Mo will show you how to find inexpensive and beautiful materials to incorporate into your collage.
Contact the office to book into Mo’s workshop
Book: 4861 4093 or office@bdasgallery.com
Watercolour Workshop
with Gillian Hook
For beginners
9 & 10 September 2023
9am - 4pm
$220 for BDAS Members
$270 for non-members
Watercolour painting has always been a special medium for Gillian – the beautiful work of Andrew Wyeth, John Singer Sargent and David Taylor providing a constant source of inspiration.
She enjoys sharing the magic of this medium with others, ensuring students can work at their own particular level - rediscover the excitement of the ”flow” & create fresh and vibrant work.
In this workshop students can explore some new innovative techniques using mixed media with watercolour, and fully explore the dynamic effects of light and darks to make paintings “sing”.
Gillian has been exhibiting and teaching for 45 years and holds a B.A.VA. Dip Ed.
Contact the office to book into Gillian’s workshop.
Book: 4861 4093 or office@bdasgallery.com
© images by Gillian Hook
Life Drawing
Workshop
with Noel Thurgate
23 & 24 September 2023 9:30am till 4pm
Cost: $260 BDAS Members $290: non-members
This includes 2 day model fees
Leonardo da Vinci famously said… “anyone can look, but only an artist truly sees”
DYNAMIC LIFE DRAWING
The ability to “read the pose” is a key factor in bringing “life” to your life drawings.
This two day workshop will explore the inner dynamics of the human form to discover the connection between ‘gesture’ and ‘structure’.
Via quick sketches and sustained studies using a variety of mediums, a greater understanding of the expressive qualities of line and tone will be developed; so too basic concepts of proportion and volume will be covered. These are fundamental elements employed by the great artists for centuries.
Noel has been exhibiting and teaching for 30 years, including 9 years as head of the Drawing Department at the National Art School, Sydney
Contact the office to book into Noel's workshop.
Book: 4861 4093 or office@bdasgallery.com
2 day chair upholstery course
with Fiona Edmeades & Steve Thomas
23 & 24 September 2023
Cost: $560
Chair Repair School is run by a collaboration between two makers. The pair: Fiona Edmeades artist and upholsterer (Reign of Chairs) and Steve Thomas woodworker (Creek Furniture), share an affinity for rejuvenation of old wares, the use of reclaimed materials and the process of the handmade.
This course offers a wonderful introduction to the practical and traditional craft of upholstery. Experience the delight and satisfaction that creating something by hand brings to your life.
Learn new skills and have some fun during this two-day, bring-your-own-chair upholstery workshop. You will be taught the techniques required to restore a chair of your own during the course and acquire the confidence to tackle new projects on your own.
There will be the opportunity to fix wobbles and other minor repairs on chair frames as well as tuition and guidance on various timber finishes.
Tuition is tailored to each individual project, however, demonstrations will be offered to the group for every technique covered during class: in this way, you will be introduced to a broader set of skills, above and beyond the techniques needed to complete your own project.
Steve and Fiona love to share their skills and they delight in helping others to learn new skills and seeing them experience the joy that can be had from making something by hand.
For more information and booking contact Fiona
Completed Workshops
Workshop
with Sarah Norton
Gift yourself time to create and ignite your creativity through your intuition
27 May 2023 10am till 1pm Studio 3 Completed
Cost: $180
Sculptural Weaving with Bangalow Palm Inflorescence
This class will connect you with you, with nature and your creativity. You’ll leave with your very own sculptural creation, possibly two, as you explore form and fibre in the age old technique of weaving.
The weaving process will deliver a deeper understanding of nature's magic but most deliciously, an expansion of your own creativity and intuition as you discover there really are no wrong moves.
Sarah Norton will walk you through her processes beginning with a series of mindful practices to access stillness and creativity, to the practical know-how of working with fibre of Bangalow Palm inflorescence and how to have your work hold form over years to come.
All materials will be supplied including morning tea.
Just bring yourself and an apron.
For more information and booking contact Sarah
sarah@sarahnortoncreative.com or click on the link below.
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Tonality
Painting Workshop
with Maryanne Wick
Oil and acrylic painting workshop Completed
27 & 28 May 2023 9:30am till 4:30pm
Cost: $220 BDAS Members $260: non-members
From Rembrandt to Whistler, Meldrum to Beckett, Rees to Wakelin, artists throughout the years have brought a sense of mood and atmosphere into their compositions through their exploration of tonal colour.
With an emphasis on observation and the still life subject, this workshop invites oil and acrylic painters of all levels, to explore the beauty and subtlety of working in tonal colour.
Be prepared to enjoy two full and focused days of practising tonal painting. This workshop includes group exercises, discussions on art and artists, tuition and personal feedback. This is also a good opportunity for those wanting to try painting with oil!
Contact the BDAS administration office for more information and receive the required Materials List when you book.
Contact the office to book into Maryanne's workshop.
Book: 4861 4093 or office@bdasgallery.com
© images by Maryanne Wick
Acrylic Plus Workshop
with Kerry McInnis
25 & 26 February 2023 - completed
9am - 4pm
$220 BDAS Members
$270 Non members
The aim of this workshop is to encourage attendees to loosen up their approach in representing a subject in 2-D. By using a broad and rather “wild” technique, a painted colour base is established upon which, at various stages, some refining of the subject is done using drawing media. We want to capture the elements of a subject that have engaged the artist without becoming trapped by our effort to represent the physical “exactness” of
the subject. The idea is to work quickly with energy and spirit.
The workshop attendees will be working from A4 size images of anything they are passionate about (landscape, portrait, still life, interior) (definitely no smaller please! If you can’t enlarge on your home computer, take your photos to a photocopy place and have them made into A4 – at least! It is preferable not to work from an image on your phone. It is too small and you need to keep refreshing it, which breaks the flow of your work. You could work from a laptop, but make sure the image is locked in!
Kerry will demonstrate at intervals during the
workshop.
Contact the office to book into Kerry’s workshop.
We require all those who attend our workshops to be fully vaccinated
Book: 4861 4093 or office@bdasgallery.com
© above images by Kerry McInnis
Impressionist Landscapes & Florals
With Mellissa Read-Devine Completed
2 Day Workshop
18 & 19 March 2023
10am – 4pm
$220 for BDAS Members
$270 for Non Members
Learn to enjoy painting with acrylics in a contemporary impressionist way.
Mellissa is keen to help you be able to find your own style and will encourage you to paint bolder and brighter, with an emphasis on clear vibrant colour combinations. The weekend will be spent painting both the landscape and the flora within it.
Day 1 will be spent interpreting the landscape from photos and colour mixing for paintings that glow
Day 2 will be all about the flowers. A garden landscape will be demonstrated, and colour mixing and brush techniques will be covered.
Mellissa Read-Devine is a Fellow of the Royal Art Society of NSW and is the Acrylics tutor at the RAS Art School.
To book contact the office at
4861 4093
Workshops will take place at the BDAS Studios at 1 Short Street, Bowral
Pictured artworks by Melissa Read Devine
with Gillian Hook Completed
For intermediate & advanced students
25 & 26 March 2023
9am - 4pm
$220 for BDAS Members
$270 for non-members
Watercolour painting has always been a special medium for Gillian – the beautiful work of Andrew Wyeth, John Singer Sargent and David Taylor providing a constant source of inspiration.
She enjoys sharing the magic of this medium with others, ensuring students can work at their own particular level - rediscover the excitement of the ”flow” & create fresh and vibrant work.
In this workshop students can explore some new innovative techniques using mixed media with watercolour, and fully explore the dynamic effects of light and darks to make paintings “sing”.
Gillian has been exhibiting and teaching for 45 years and holds a B.A.VA. Dip Ed.
Contact the office to book into Gillian’s workshop.
Book: 4861 4093 or office@bdasgallery.com
© images by Gillian Hook
Portrait Drawing Workshop
with Noel Thurgate
Completed
15 & 16 April 2023 9:30am till 4pm
Cost: $260 BDAS Members $290: non-members
This includes 2 day model fees
Discover the connection between the ‘character’ and the ‘face’
This 2 day portrait drawing class explores facial structure as well as the body dynamics that give character and life to your subject.
Using basic mediums of pencil, charcoal and wash, participants will investigate their subject via the powerful and effective elements of line and tone.
Workshop begins with quick warm up sketches to explore general proportions and structures of the human skull, followed by a look at some compositional possibilities that the sitter and surroundings may offer; Day 2: more sustained and in depth studies of the head and/or whole or part figure.
Noel has been exhibiting and teaching for 30 years, including 9 years as head of the Drawing Department at the National Art School, Sydney
Contact the office to book into Noel's workshop.
Book: 4861 4093 or office@bdasgallery.com
© image by Noel Thurgate
weekend workshops at the BDAS in 2022 and 2023
2 Day Upholstery Workshop with We Us and Stuff on
30 & 31 July Completed
Intermediate to advanced Watercolour with Gillian Hook –
6 & 7 August Completed
Acylics Bold and Bright with Mellissa Read Devine
13 & 14 August Completed
Making Sense of a Place with Tara Axford - 20 & 21 August Completed
Ink on Yupo with Tracey Miller - 27 August Completed
Macro Floral Painting with Tracey Miller - 28 August Completed
Collage Workshop with Tracey Miller -10 September Completed
Beginners Art Taster with Tracey Miller -11 September Completed
Life Drawing workshop with Noel Thurgate - 8 & 9 October Completed
Celebrating Spring with Peter Wale - 15 & 16 October Completed
Abstract Art Workshop with Sue Meredith 29 & 30 October Completed
Macro Flora Painting with Tracey Miller 27 November Completed
Macro Flora Painting workshop with Tracey Miller - 15 January
Completed
Still Life Painting Workshop with Gilda Wilson - 21 & 22 January
Completed
BDAS TUTORS:
Tony Ameneiro
Walter Brecely
John Brain
Wayne Davis
Tony Deigan
A-F Fulgence
Jenny Hawkins
Patti Jones
video about Patti's class
Sue Meredith
Tracey Miller
Elaine Musgrave
Kim Shannon
Deborah Stokes
Denise Sumner
James Ting
Dave Thomas
Libby Wakefield
Gilda Wilson
video on Gilda's class
Slavica Zivkovic
