It is with great pleasure to announce that my self portrait has been selected as a finalist in this years National Darling Portrait Prize. Exhibition will be held at the National Portrait Galley in Canberra from 24th July. www.portrait.gov.au
Our Folio prep students completed some beautiful Georgia O'Keeffe re productions. Originally in paint, our students experimented with dry pastels on a coloured ground. Here are the results!
A big congratulations to our Folio Prep students Sonya Mikhaylova and Ellie Sheeran for being accepted into RMIT University to study their Bachelor of Fine Art. It's been wonderful having you both studying at the studio. Wishing you all the best.
Our Junior and teenager holiday programs are back on! A fun day of art making. Materials will be provided and light snacks. Â We have a maximum of 10 students per class.
We're back! After a lengthy lockdown I'm happy to inform you all that our classes  will resume from Saturday 23rd October. We will be completing Term 3 for our current students. 2022 enrolments will be available in December.  Thank you for your patience and support. Cant wait to see you all!
Some finished drawings by the folio prep students! Love the commitment.. well done!
Today will be our first day back after our long lockdown and we are all super excited to start making art again. We are now located at 1 Lorna Street Cheltenham. Our beautiful and cosy studio will now cater for a maximum of 8 students per class. The studio is Covid safe with hand sanitiser [...]
During this second lockdown in Melbourne I completed a reproduction of Jan Van Eyck self portrait to show glazing techniques. This project was given to our Folio Prep students who all did a great job. Its a great way to learn techniques used by the Old Masters while enhancing your art history knowledge.
CONGRATULATIONS to my folio preparation students who were accepted to continue their studies at VCASS next year. (Victorian collage of the Arts Secondary School). Your commitment, passion and hard work has paid off. I wish I could’ve helped more during these COVID times but nonetheless, you should be very proud of yourselves for the work [...]
With great disappointment the studio will be closed during the second wave of lockdown. I made efforts today to allow us to at least run our folio prep classes but I was flat out declined. I will however be issuing credits for those enrol this term. I will be contacting folio students for online mentoring [...]
