Throughout the year established artists put together a series of workshops, generally run at the weekends. These are open for anyone to join so please get in contact with the tutors to book a place.
To keep up to date with workshops that are available and to secure your place early, check this page often. Alternatively, why not apply to become a member of the Northand Society of Arts and get emailed when new art workshops arrive.
CALENDAR FOR WORKSHOPS | February – March 2025.
Held at Reyburn House Gallery & Studio.
Vjekoslav Nemesh
Saturday & Sunday, February 22nd & 23rd
11am-4pm at Reyburn Art Studio
Workshop cost: $275 for both days, or $150 for one day.
You will need to bring TWO canvases medium size (eg. 50 X 40cm, 50 X 50cm, 40 X 30cm, 50 X 30cm) PER DAY.
Please go for canvases with thick stretcher bars, for example DAS exhibition canvases which you can find in Arthur’s Emporium, Whangarei.
Contact Nemesh at 027 224 4443 to reserve your spot or for more information, or email: nemesh_art@yahoo.com
Don’t miss this extraordinary opportunity to connect with art that vibrates with the energy of creation, love, and joy.
Weekend Workshops with Elena Nikolaeva
All workshops in this series are conducted by Elena Nikolaeva.
Contact her directly to enrol or make enquiries:
enikonzealand@gmail.com
or phone (09) 431 4741,
mob: 021 157 1730
PAYMENT FOR EACH WORKSHOP TO BE MADE TO THE TUTOR, IN CASH ON THE DAY OF THE WORKSHOP, OR BY DIRECT DEPOSIT:
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1. Unfinished Works
One day Workshop.
Sunday, March 2nd, 10.00 a.m. – 3.00 p.m.
Fee: $60
Get out your paints and brushes and warm yourself up to a creative new year by taking a critical look at those unfinished canvases you have lying around. What bothers you? Where will you start? Clear the decks and make space for new masterpieces.
Now’s your chance to get help with anything you may have begun and want to develop, or want to have another go at it. Elena will assist you to look at work afresh, solve particular problems, and get you moving again.
Or just come and work on an idea you’ve been hatching – maybe a technique or new materials you’ve experimented with and want to explore further.
MATERIALS:
- Your unfinished canvases and papers (you are welcome to bring several),
- Acrylics/oils, (or other media you want to use),
- Your favourite brushes, palette knives, palettes, cleaning materials, etc.
2. Geometry in Absract Painting
One day Workshop.
Sunday, March 9th, 10.00 a.m. – 3.00 p.m.
Fee $60
The history of abstract painting goes back to the beginning of the 20th century.
During all the time of its existence it was transforming constantly. A great number of artists were experimenting with different materials, styles, techniques.
Geometrical abstraction is one of the trends invented by Vassiliy Kandinsky in the beginning of the last century. Since that time many artists use geometrical elements in their paintings.
Contemporary art shows huge variety of geometrical styles.
It’s time to explore what it offers!
In this workshop you will learn about various styles and techniques of visual geometry in contemporary painting. You will study the main principles of geometrical composition in art. You will learn how to avoid danger of being too ‘precise’ or ‘unemotional’ with geometry, how to transform ‘dry’ science into emotional painting.
This workshop is a great opportunity to play with geometrical shapes, combining them on canvas, creating your own unique abstract composition.
MATERIALS:
- Medium to big canvas
- Your favourite brushes
- Masking tape
- Compass if you have one
- All your usual painting gear.
3. Learning from a NZ Artist Darlene Meiring
One day Workshop.
Sunday March 16th, 10.00 a.m. – 3.00 p.m.
Fee $60
This time we will explore the art of a well known contemporary NZ artist Dalene Meiring.
Dalene’s paintings have been described as being rich, warm and easy on the eye. They are vivid in colour, harmonious in form and vitality.
Her art is versatile; she has for main styles – landscape, figurative, abstract and floral
Dalene creates imaginary worlds where things we know, like flowers, nature, animals, have special meanings that are bigger than what we see.
What may learn from her art?
Her paintings are a clever juxtaposition of both realism and abstraction.
You will study the ways she transforms the shapes of the objects in her paintings, how she creates her unique compositions on canvas.
In this workshop you will create your own painting based on visual principles of Dalene’s art.
You may paint a stylised landscape, floral composition, figurative painting or an abstract piece.
MATERIALS:
- Medium to big size canvas
- Acrylics (including metallic acrylics)
- Brushes, palette knifes
- Masking tape
- Palettes
- All you usual painting gear.
4. Line and Wash – Watercolour (Acrylic Inks) and Pens
One day Workshop.
Sunday March 23rd, 10.00 a.m. – 3.00 p.m.
Fee $60
This workshop offers you another opportunity to make one more dent in the world of watercolours or acrylic inks.
This time you may try to combine precision and playfulness, adding a LINE in your water medium.
This painting technique is a beautiful fusion of inked lines and watercolour or acrylic ink washes that brings structure and softness together in a single piece.
It’s perfect for capturing anything from nature studies to cityscapes. Line and wash allows you to combine both control and creative freedom.
In this workshop you will learn some important tips for creating your line and wash painting on paper.
You will explore how to find this sweet spot between bold lines and delicate washes.
Ink lines are more than just outlines. They are the framework that gives a painting its initial character.
You will try several tools for making lines:
Waterproof ink pens (different tip sizes)
Non waterproof pens,
Fine line drawing pens,
Dip pens
Brush pens,
Sticks, etc
Charcoal
You will learn two main techniques: wash over line and line over wash.
Just come and enjoy your creative day!
MATERIALS:
- Watercolour paper, several sheets A4, A3, 200, 300 gr
- Watercolours or acrylic inks
- Various brushes for watercolours
- Acrylic pens (markers), any kinds of pens you have for the outlines. Elena will bring her pens.
- Pencil, eraser
- Palettes,
- Cleaning material
5. Combining Spray Paints and Textures in Painting
One day Workshop.
Sunday March 30th, 10.00 a.m. – 3.00 p.m.
Fee $60
Being artists, we must keep up and improve our artistic techniques constantly.
Contemporary artistic world is known by a huge variety of methods of paints applications. To achieve a certain mood paintings, to develop their own style the artists combine a wide range of various materials and techniques.
This workshop offers you an opportunity to experiment with contrast of soft elements of a painting which spray paints provide and textural elements which palette knife offers.
It’s a very effective combination which is widely used in a contemporary artistic world due to its versatile nature and individual inventions.
In this workshop you will play with texture paste, modelling paste and gel medium over spray paints and vice versa – spray paints over textured elements.
These combinations allow you to create amazing visual contrasts of muted soft colour transitions and sharp definite distinctive elements of a painting.
This technique is fast, so you will be able to make several paintings in one day.
It will be a day of creative fun!
MATERIALS:
- Medium size canvases (the size you are comfortable with)
- Acrylic paints
- Spray paints ( including metallic colours)
- Brushes
- Palette knifes
- Modelling paste or texture paste (for acrylics)
- Gel medium
- Big palettes
- Cleaning material
Enquiries and Enrolments
To enquire about the NSA Workshops, or to apply to enroll, unless otherwise directed, please phone in the first instance your course Tutor.
Alternatively phone Reyburn House Gallery (09) 438 3074, or email us with your full contact details – phone, address, email, so we can respond with the appropriate follow-up. (Gallery hours are 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. Tuesday to Friday and 10.00 to 2.00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.)