Collection: New Courses and Programs

Discover the sensuous beauty of classical oil painting techniques and be guided through a series of structured exercises and demonstrations of methods and specific ways of using materials. 

Are you time-poor yet want to learn how to take great photos? In this two-day intensive photography workshop, you’ll let go of relying on the camera’s automatic settings and be taught the fundamentals of manual exposure, empowering your creative shooting capabilities.

Are you eager to move from being an arts enthusiast to a practising, exhibiting and sustainable artist? Learn what it takes to become a professional artist; how to research and understand the investment of time, money, planning, energy and creativity it requires to survive in the arts.

Create contemporary clay artworks with white porcelain clay and use lustre colours to add brilliant accents to your glazed ceramics. Learn mould-making, raw glazing, lustre tile testing, firing and finishing techniques.

Build on your existing knowledge of glazes and develop surface palettes to suit your own practice. Learn specialised firing cycles and the effects of glazes on different clay bodies.

A hands-on, practical workshop on the basics of glaze composition, firing and glaze testing techniques.  Learn to select and test glazes, colour and surface development and set appropriate firing cycles.

Expand your still life painting skills in an immersive weekend with renowned artist Jude Rae, who shares her insights into the genre within a cultural frame that supports both the traditions of realist painting and Abstraction. Through personalised instruction you’ll develop a personal visual language to create dynamic, engaging paintings.

The course fee includes a light lunch, morning and afternoon teas.