A Beginners Guide to Oil Painting

 

 

‘A Beginners Guide to Oil Painting’ with Sonja McAuliffe
A five week course to explore the properties of oil paint and the power of colour mixing with oil paint.
Tuesdays Feb 4 – March 4 6-9PM
$257 (Members) $321 (Non Members)

 

Introduction to Notan FEB 3

 

 

Introduction to Notan: Create Harmony with Light and Dark
A five week course with Kate Smith
Notan is a Japanese design concept that means creating a beautiful harmony and balance between light and dark.
Monday 3rd Feb – Monday 3rd March 6-9PM
$257 (Members) $321 (Non Members)

 

Abstraction in the Natural World

 

 

Abstraction in the Natural World: A five week course with Leigh Walker
Tues 4th Feb – Tues 4th Mar (5 weeks)
$274 (Members) $343 (Non Members)
“In this 5-week course, we will explore a variety of nature and landscape based intuitive art projects which will help students to connect to their natural creative energy”

 

Sunday Oil Painting

 

 

Sunday Fundamentals for Oil Painting
A five week course with Rick Cochrane
Students will progress through a series of skills development exercises
Second and forth Sundays:  Commencing Feb 9
$242 (Members) $302 (Non Members)

 

2025 is selling out fast!

Courses and workshops for 2025 are selling out fast!

Don’t miss out, book your course for term 1 2025 and see what workshops are coming up.

 

ART GROUPS

CAW has eleven art groups throughout the week, drawing, painting, printmaking, portraiture, life drawing and more.  Art groups are not tutored but everyone contributes ideas and suggestions.
As the Canberra winter sets in wouldn’t you like to spend some time in a nice warm studio getting creative with a wonderful group of like minded people?
Try as many as you like, contact the conveners for more information.

 

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1948

Canberra Art Club

1950

Canberra University

OUR HISTORY

OUR ORIGINAL BUILDING

FLASHBACK

Flashback

How CAW exhibited in 1954.

Each ‘On Show’ exhibition by CAW makes history in its own ways.
As it happens, one of CAW’s friends, Dr Alan Jones, has been researching Canberra’s art societies.
We are grateful to Alan for discovering in the National Library the room sheet for our fifth annual exhibition in 1954.
Back then, Canberra Art Workshop was called the Canberra Art Club.
The 1954 exhibition included ‘hero’ paintings by three of the then modernist gods of the Sydney art scene, Roland Wakelin, Margo Lewers and Jean Bellette.
They provided six of the 75 paintings in the show (look at the prices!)
Our 1954 exhibition was turbocharged by including these ‘big name’ contemporary artists to boost visitor numbers.
And, nationally-known art personalities were directly involved with our organisation in other ways at that time.

Seven Decades of Art Activism

Over the decades, Canberra Art Workshop (back when we were called the Canberra Art Club) has been active in lobbying for the creation of the national capital’s major visual arts institutions.
Artists from around Australia have been associated with Canberra Art Workshop — including household names like Max Meldrum, John Coburn, Clifton Pugh, John Brack and Lloyd Rees.
It’s worth having a look at where Canberra Art Workshop came from and what we’ve achieved.