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Easter workshops 2013

  At Our Neutral Bay studio, children have the opportunity to do sketches of insects and flowers whist sitting in our garden near the veggie patch or on the grass, then create a composition that they paint on to canvas. For the first time our younger group...

Summer workshops 2013

  Summer brings a sense of celebration we have the opportunity to create outside with the warmer weather and to introduce new techniques, Kiwi fruits are blown up into a colorful contemporary work, textural beach scene and still life’s of fruit and flowers allow...

Winter workshops 2012

  Our art Studio is located so close to Taronga Zoo the children had a lovely time designing and making their favorite animal in paper. Our regular students have developed such wonderful individual styles, this is evident in their self portraits and landscapes....

Easter workshops 2012

  The art gallery of N.S.W had one of Australia’s most significant Picasso exhibitions to date; many of the children had seen Picasso for the first time over the summer holidays.  Julia and I created Picasso inspired workshops that resulted in some extraordinary...

Summer workshops 2012

  What a fantastic way to start the year with creating a clay face wall hanging as the class was all girls they decided to make angel faces, carrying on the Christmas spirit, or the whimsical paper sculptures that were inspired by the bright coloured elements of...

Spring Workshops 2011

  We have a beautiful garden that the children can play in during their meal breaks. The children love having a play in our garden and taking a look at what’s growing in our permaculture veggie patch. – Basia We had themes for our workshops this spring,...

Winter workshops 2011

We forgot that it was winter, the children were so engrossed with our popular abstract painting workshops. Basia shared some decorative painting techniques  with her Náve landscapes. The impressionist inspired self portraits was loads of fun. Not to forget, our three...

Easter workshops 2011

We have just completed a fantastic series of workshops, Basia and I looked at different ways the children can translate an idea into an artwork. For example the children created a design for a mythical beast sculpture, using paper collage. They also recalled from...

Summer workshop 2010

  Basia had been conducting private consultations in art therapy and also her own art practice, at her studio in Neutral Bay. The summer of 2010 she offered a spectacular Mandala workshop for children and with its success Julia and Basia, joined creative forces...