Weekdays: 10am-4pm
Thursdays until 7pm
Weekends: 11am-4pm
The Victorian Artists Society will be closed from Sunday 24 December and reopen on Tuesday 2 January 2024
Young Artist Workshops
FOR ARTISTS AGED 15 TO 20
Our workshops support the development of your creative practice through opportunities to explore, experiment and refine your technical art making skills. Each workshop focuses on building a strong skill set for the technical execution of your art practice.
The program covers a wide range of mediums and skills such as oil painting, acrylic glazing, watercolour, drawing, ink, and sculpture. You can mix and match these classes based on your own interests!
We will also have facilitated studio days where you can work on your own projects and receive guidance from experienced VAS artists.
These workshops are intended for artists aged 15-20 and have been developed with Art Creative Practice or Art Making and Exhibiting VCE subjects or Tertiary Fine Arts courses in mind. Each workshop includes lunch. Materials will be provided for class, but you are welcome to bring your own if you have them.
Artists will have the opportunity to showcase works from these workshops in the VAS Cato Gallery as they are completed, leading up to an open day on 23 January so you can invite your friends and family to see your work on display.
Studio sessions
Our beautiful Cato Gallery is open as a studio space on select days throughout the workshop period. Book in and bring along your own project to create in a focused environment. You're welcome to drop in any time throughout the session! You'll be supported by VAS Artist Rhi Edwards, who will be available to offer guidance. Lunch provided!
Meet the Teachers
Erica Wagner
VAS
Erica is an artist, publisher and storyteller. Her practice embraces the flexibility of creativity through mixed media encompassing painting, drawing, printing and collage.
Gwendoline Krumins
VAS
Gwendoline Krumins is an award-winning realist artist and lifelong teacher. She has taught both adults and teenagers, and run her own art school for over 40 years. Gwendoline loves to draw and paint, but above all else sees herself as a tonal impressionist.
Jennifer Fyfe
Jen Fyfe is a member of the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society & Signatory Member of the Victorian Artists Society. Painting generally alla prima in the studio, Jen enjoys representing shadow and light and strives to bring personality, mood and immediacy to her subjects.
Linda Weil
Linda Weil is an artist who is passionate about the art of drawing. She works with and teaches all forms of drawing mediums, specialising in the rich and expressive use of graphite pencil.
Lucy Fekete
Lucy has been a Fine Artist and Illustrator for 15+ years. She now teaches regularly as an art tutor at VAS, covering classes in oil painting, acrylic and drawing, with a focus on portraiture.
Nathalie Anne
Nathalie Anne is a creative who is passionate about painting, drawing and sculpting whose practice observes clear, visual expression of beauty expressed in both Line or Form. Nathalie is a friendly and supportive teacher who runs both a beginner watercolour class & our weekly life drawing sessions here at VAS Gallery.
Swathi Madike
Swathi is an award-winning artist whose love for oil painting flourished at a summer course at the Florence Academy of Art which led to formal training at the Julian Ashton Art School. Swathi identifies as a South Asian artist driven by a passion to increase representation of people of colour painted by people of colour.
Acknowledgment of traditional owners.
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