This workshop aims to bring to life the seemingly inanimate world of ordinary objects.
Starting the day with close observation, students will create quick studies to reveal interesting, bold contrasts between objects and their surroundings before using these experiments to inform a more sustained painting.
We’ll take inspiration from artists such as Anne Redpath, Chaim Soutine and Pierre Bonnard while working from a still life arrangement. Viewing these objects as a landscape of dynamic contrasts – textured and smooth, light and dark, sharp and soft, vivid and vague – we will explore the playful possibilities that the balance of these relationships can create in a painting.