All demonstrations and workshops are held at the Coach House, 3A Farmer St., Kiama.

Demonstrations begin at 1.00pm. and we ask you to be seated at 12.45pm please.

Cost is $7 members and $10 visitors. At the conclusion of the demonstration, a delicious afternoon tea is served.

6^th March Demonstration

Waterless Lithography- Printmaking

Annie Day and her sister Robin Ezra will present a demonstration of Waterless Lithography.

Annie a celebrated portrait artist has been a practicing artist since gaining her diploma in painting in 1974 from the National Art School, Sydney. In recent years Annie’s interest has turned from painting to printmaking.

Although Robin was self-taught as a teenager, her intensity of interest in all things visual, and consequently the quality of the body of work she now produces really began when she enrolled in Life Drawing classes at the ANU School or Art with the 3rd Year Sculpture students in 1985. Since then she has studied a variety of mediums and attended a number of courses in Printmaking - a lot of them from the Warringah Printmakers Studio where she has assisted in teaching Printmaking to other students.

Over the past 14 years Annie has become a passionate advocate of safer, healthier and more environmentally friendly printmaking techniques.

The Waterless lithography technique enables the artist to create a lithographic image in a swift and effortless manner.
The procedure uses recycled aluminium offset plates and a silicone mixture to repel ink instead of water as in the traditional method.
The plates are printed on an etching press. The process is far less toxic to the printmaker than traditional lithography.

Annie and Robin will be having an exhibition “Sojourn in Italy” at The Milk Factory Gallery, Bowral from 5^th-27^th November 2011. For further information regarding their works, exhibitions and workshops visit their website at www.annieday.com.au 

April 3^rd Demonstration

Contemporary Abstraction with Sue Irvin

 Sue Irvin is a local artist who has been exhibiting since 2005 in the Illawarra, Shoalhaven, Sydney and Melbourne. Guest artist at the Sultan’s School, Oman was a recent highlight.

Prior to this Sue had a career as a Visual Arts consultant, teacher, guest lecturer, workshop co-ordinator and Arts administrator.

Artworks are often abstract, developed from realism and pertaining to place. A weekly discipline of painting plein air with a group “The Out There Artists” lead to semi abstract, abstract and realistic works that explore the essence of a site.

As a traveller, often subject matter is diverse and exotic. In 2010 her “Lost Frescoes” exhibition explored the abstract qualities of faded, eroded frescoes in Italy.

At the Shoalhaven City Arts Centre on March 10^th at noon, her current exhibition will be launched. “Eastern Odyssey” explores the essence of her responses to Oman, Egypt and Turkey.

Sue’s demonstration will invite you to dance with “abstraction” and explore its definition, its history and some criticisms of it. Ponder images of the greats and find out the role music has played in abstraction.

Look at practical strategies for making abstract works using a variety of approaches, compositional tricks and consider a broad range of materials.

How to explain the creative process? Here is one way to explore and consider for you own works.

Watch as Sue Irvin demonstrates a method of abstraction, after viewing images of Sue’s work.

 As a finale, throw around questions about all of the above and enjoy the two hours devoted to the illusive concept of “Abstraction

 To view some of Sue’s evocative work: http://sueirvinartist.wordpress.com