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Native Flora

Sat, Oct 15

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Vancouver Arts Centre

Suitable for all levels, this workshop focuses on WA native flowers. Ideal for artists interested to approach botanical painting in a detailed, yet creative way that leaves room for personal interpretation.

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Native Flora
Native Flora

Time & Location

Oct 15, 2022, 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM

Vancouver Arts Centre, 85 Vancouver St, Albany WA 6330

About the event

CONTENT

In this floral workshop, you will develop your own visual lexicon to create your personal vision of some of the local native flowers.

In the morning, you will be introduced to the subtle art of layering, playing with light and darkness as well as texture, to create stunning backgrounds, on which you will later paint flowers. You will also discover how to build a personal way of rendering these plants by analysing their architecture.

In the afternoon, you will experiment with white ink detailing to add depth and contrast to your paintings. 

This workshop also includes tips for composition, archival art practice, and how to create in series while remaining creative and avoiding repetitiveness.

PARTICIPANTS MUST BRING

-  a few A4 and A3 watercolour paper sheets

- some photocopy paper sheets for practice

- 2x natural fiber/sable brushes size 0 or 1 (1 for ink, 1 for white ink), 

- 1x large flat goat hair brushes

- apron, rags, absorbant towel paper, newspaper to protect your table

- 2 x large containers for water (recycled take away plastic containers), 2 x as small as you can find containers for ink with lid

- native plants or flowers of your choice

- notebook + pen + HB or 2B pencil

- lunch

Tickets

  • Native Flora Ink Painting

    A$100.00
    Sale ended

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A$0.00

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Born in France, Sofie Dieu’s first encounter with art was through church. With a penchant for ritual and spirituality, the artist is best known for her fragile, sombre, and sometimes violent ink paintings and textile works.

 

Poetic and humanist, her practice draws on her journeys to China and Australia. She explores how identity and memory fluctuate according to their immediate environment. Landscapes, people, secrecy, healing, and the dichotomy between light and darkness are some of her recurring themes.

  

Multi-art prizes and award finalist, her work was included in the Sydney North Art Prize, Waterhouse Natural Science prize and the Contemporary Art Award amongst others. In 2016, she worked on the Camperdown Cemetery installation for Sydney Biennale. In 2017, her work will be shown during Vivid and Mental Health Month in Sydney.

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