3 day Landscape Painting Workshop with Joanna Logue (Fri 15th to Sun 17th Nov 2024)
Join us for a stunning 3 day immersive landscape painting workshop with artist Joanna Logue.
DATE: Fri 15th to Sun 17th November 2024 (3 days)
ACCOMMODATION:
We’d love to have you stay at Essington Park during your workshop. Accommodation is available discounted rates. To add accommodation to your booking, tick “yes” for Accommodation* at checkout and we’ll be in touch to arrange your stay. For questions, please contact us.
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3 Day Immersive Workshop
Date: 15, 16 & 17th of November 2024
Time: 8.00am with a 9.00am sharp start x 3 days
Stay with us : We have blocked our calendar to offer discounted rates to attendees. Please email us at hello@essingtonpark.com for special rates.
Course outline and Inclusions:
Friday 8.00am – 5.00pm
The day will start with a nourishing breakfast made from organic eggs and goods from the pantry of Essington Park. Homemade sourdough, preserves, freshly brewed coffee and tea included.
Collecting information: Plein air drawing and mark making ; A group talk about creative processes and influences.
A delicious lunch will be served on the veranda made by Simmone Logue using produce from our own organic vegetable garden.
Saturday 8.00am – 5.00pm
We will start our day with a nourishing breakfast made from the organic eggs and goods from the pantry of Essington Park. Homemade sourdough, preserves, freshly brewed coffee, and tea included.
Studio practice: Developing drawings and information collected the previous day through a process of pastiche and collage, focusing on how one image might inform the next. Various formal aspects of image building will be explored, such as shape, line variation, pathways, tension, tone, and scale.
A delicious lunch will be served on the veranda made by Simmone Logue using produce from our own organic vegetable garden.
Sunday 8.00am – 4.00pm
A nourishing breakfast will set us up for the day. Made from organic eggs and goods from the pantry of Essington Park. Homemade sourdough, preserves, freshly brewed coffee, and tea included.
Painting: Using developed drawings from the day before, providing a departure and a scaffold for paintings, resulting in a series of resolved studies.
A group analysis and discussion with emphasis on each participant’s visual language and how this could be developed further.
A delicious lunch will be served on the veranda made by Simmone Logue using produce from our own organic vegetable garden.
What to bring:
You will need to bring materials and supplies including
· 20 Sheets (50cm x 78cm) cold press paper
· Sketch book (suggested 40cm x 50cm)
· Charcoal
· Variety of grey lead pencils
· Glue
· Sumi ink
· Sticks
· Brushes (variety, flat, round, calligraphic)
· Black and white acrylic paint, a minimal earth palette and a few primary colours
· Scissors
· Stapler
· A surface such as foam core to use as a platform for working
About the Artist:
Joanna was born in Australia in 1964 in the Hunter Valley of NSW, with her twin sister Simmone. She was brought up in the countryside, having an extreme attachment to her sister and an acute sensitivity to the natural world.
At age 10 they moved to the city, and it was here she became aware of her creative ability and the power of self-expression, as a way to define herself and her individuality and also as a place of safety and refuge.
In 1984 she commenced a BA in visual arts at the City Art Institute in Sydney and in 1987 completed a post graduate degree in painting. Soon after she joined the stable of Kim Bonython gallery and then went on to join the Tim Olsen Gallery in Sydney. In 1997, both Simmone and Joanna purchased Essington Park, a homestead on the Central Tablelands west of Sydney, which became a creative retreat where she drew inspiration for the next 25 years. In 2008 , Joanna joined the stable of painters at the King Street Gallery in Sydney and the Scott Livesey Gallery in Melbourne, where she exhibits simultaneously biannually.
In 2017 she moved for love to an island off the coast of Maine in the USA, where she now lives and works.
“Landscape and solitude sustains my practice. I am presently obsessed by the poetry and essays of Mary Oliver and the writings of Wendel Berry, Robert Hass, Janet Malcolm and Celia Paul. I am looking towards Per Kirkeby, John Walker, Pierre Bonnard, Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff for visual prompts and guidance”.
Currently Joanna is making a body of work for King Street gallery opening in March 2025.
***Whilst we will do our very best to hold each workshop, we are a small creative business and reserve the right to cancel a workshop with a full refund if we are unable to proceed.