Painting Intensive: From still life to portrait

  • Term: Spring Term

    Start Date: 1st September 2022

    End Date: 10th November 2022

    Exhibition Date: 11th November 2022 5:30pm

    Early Application Cut off: 31st July 2022

    Application Cut off: 20th August

    Course Structure:

    Lesson: 2 hours Saturday 1pm - 3pm

    Supervised Studio time: 2 hours Wednesday 6pm - 8pm

    2 unsupervised studio sessions to be arranged at the first lesson

    Course Capacity: 6

    Art Educator: Kate Patrikeos

    Level: Beginner/Intermediate

    Full Fee: $1,000

    Early Fee: $950

    Concession Fee: $950

    Location: 130 Art Studios – Workshop

  • This painting course encourages participants to develop their own painting style whilst learning a variety of techniques. Course outcomes include: each participant refining and developing their skills; each participant building an understanding of painting’s rich history plus being able to place their work in a contemporary context; developing a personal visual language to draw from and the ability to experiment and discuss ideas in the comfort a safe community of artists.

    The course covers not only painting tecnniques but different styles of painting (from figurative and still-life to abstraction). Each class has a detailed learning component with an exercise in each topic for the participant to try. The course is designed that the lessons applied each week can be built on throughout the course (depending on where each participant is leaning).

  • Kate Patrikeos

    BFA (Hons) UNSW

    Kate’s work is concerned with employing various slippages within her painting practice to embody, and, materially represent her everyday suburban experiences combined with interests in film and fashion. Her practice is motivated to combine an autobiographical visual language of motifs, with numerous tensions in the traditional picture frame, to illustrate her experiences. The work engages with humour and textual narrative, and other times with abstraction, found textiles and installation supports.

    More recently Kate’s paintings have also considered their installation process and relationship to each other as larger bodies of work, engaging with both the performativity of painting and the application of materials to a velvet substrate. The problematic nature of working with velvet commands a variety of actions from her. Working within the demands of this pictorial frame, these actions act as a kind of ‘way-finding’ lens to approaching painting.

  • You must wear covered footwear. Sturdy leather or steel capped shoes will best protect your feet. Protective clothing such as an old long sleeve shirt and long pants are ideal. Avoid light, flammable and synthetic materials. Protective glasses and gloves will be provided.

    All materials are provided for the lesson – own materials required for independent studio time