This free event offers visitors insight into the diverse ways artists capture their sitters, showcasing their individual styles with mediums including oil, acrylic, pastel, and watercolour.

There will be several models and artists in our expansive upstairs galleries which will be showcasing our annual Portrait Exhibition. Visitors are welcome to visit and chat with artists during breaks throughout the day as the works take shape. Members of the public are welcome to sketch along in the upper galleries.

Stick around for the opening and awards presentation of our annual Portrait Exhibition at 4pm.

Portrait Painters in Action is generously supported by the City of Melbourne.