demonstrations
Monthly meetings are held on the first Wednesday of the month, except January, at which visiting, well-known artists give demonstrations. Members and visitors are welcome to these demonstrations, for a small entry fee of $5 members, $7 non-members. They are held at Castle Glen Community Centre, 157 Ridgecrop Drive, Castle Hill (at the rear of the carpark at Knightsbridge shopping centre).
2023 Demonstrations - Wednesday 7.30pm
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1 February
Mellissa Read-Devine "New Matisse Acrylics & Printmaking Kit" Mellissa will demonstrate how to make impressionist mixed media paintings using ink, charcoal watercolour and chalk pastels with the silk screen and Matisse Print Gel. In addition, she will show how to use Derivan Liquid Stencil—a revolutionary new screen printing technique—in both paintings as well as traditional silk screen media on a variety of surfaces. |
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2022 Demonstrations - Wednesday 7.30pm
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2 February
Christopher Vidal "Blue Mountains Landscape in Oils" Christopher Vidal, a Sydney artist who loves to paint the landscape as well as other subjects in oils and acrylics. His style of painting is contemporary realism influenced by classical painters and by recent impressionists. At age 13 he studied classical drawing in Malta, then pursued a career as a medical scientist and researcher, eventually moving to Australia permanently and then becoming a professional artist. He produces a continuous stream of new works and commissioned paintings, and his works are found in private and corporate collections in Australia and Internationally. |
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2 March
Yolanda Seach "My Journey to Abstraction" Yolanda will give some background on how abstract art started, showing examples and describing her journey from realism to abstraction. There have been many influences along the way and through experimenting and having a go she is amazed at how much it has helped her more traditional painting. |
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6 April
John Rice "What is Plein Air painting about" or "Secrets of Plein Air painting" John is an energetic outdoor painter who works almost exclusively in oils and is stimulated by the strong light of the Australian landscape. His work stems from direct observation during “en plein air” painting trips throughout the Blue Mountains, the Hawkesbury and the Central West of NSW. Recent painting trips have been to Sardinia, Bordeaux, Tuscany and Central Australia. John has won many awards for his artworks and has held fifteen very successful solo exhibitions and numerous joint exhibitions. |
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4 May
Mariana Ariza "Watercolour Seascape" The ocean and the coast is a beautiful and dynamic subject. It provides us with wonderful colours and interesting shapes. Watercolours are a wonderful medium that, like the ocean waves, have an innate spontaneity. By trying to find that balance between looseness and control, a seascape might be born! |
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1 June
Florence Ilacqua "Loose and Spontaneous Watercolour" Florence is a Sydney based artist, who works in a varied range of wet and dry media - watercolour, pastel, acrylic, pen and ink, charcoal and oil, often incorporating them in a variety of subjects. Of the above, her favourite is watercolour and ink, which allows the freedom of expression and spontaneous energy to work without limitation. |
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2 July - Saturday 2:00pm
Kevin McKay "Urban Landscapes in Oils" Kevin McKay is an urban landscape painter who works en plein air and in the studio. His work depicts eerily empty streetscapes, where the stillness of classical form and the drama of light is found in the everyday. He will demonstrate the initial stages of sketching in a composition and blocking in with oil paint and show how formal abstract considerations forms the basis for good realism. |
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3 August
Dario Falzon "Early morning at Yarrumundi" - Oils Dario will be demonstrating a scene that was painted plein air, and will explain his technique plus the various processes and materials used. Dario is a traditional realist painter, primarily working en plein air with oil paints, and using brushes and knives in multiple ways to create an impression of the surrounding landscape. |
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7 September
Lisa Shepherd "Magical Cyanotypes" During this demonstration you will discover the historic alternative photographic process of cyanotypes which were extremely popular during the Victorian era. It is a cameraless photographic process using UV light on sensitised paper to produce blue and white images. The process is now being used by both photographers and artists worldwide with no limitations for final outcomes. "Every time I expose a new artwork I am thrilled with the results and no two pieces are ever the same" said Lisa. She has experience in a wide variety of mediums and has specialised in cyanotype printing for over 5 years now. |
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5 October
Mellissa Read-Devine "New Matisse Acrylics & Printmaking Kit" Mellissa will demonstrate the new Acrylic paints by Matisse and also the new Printmaking kit which can be used to make cards, etc. With a paper screen printing kit you can make many copies of your artwork – paper bags, handmade cards, wrapping paper or art prints using silkscreen printing is so simple! This kit comes with everything you need to start and you also get four primary acrylic colours and print gel perfect for silkscreening on paper. |
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2 November
Hiren Patel "Painting an Atmospheric Urban Landscape in Oils" Hiren grew up in India but now lives in Australia and paints professionally, exhibiting both here and overseas. Most subjects are urban landscapes and are based on the idea of light and mood forming a composition. Using this technique he can transform a mundane streetscape into visual poetry. |
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