Want to get creative? This month the First Coat Studios will help you get an intro to the beautiful Japanese art of flower arranging, ikebana. You also have the chance to learn from local artist Brontë Naylor, whose artwork is featured throughout Toowoomba as part of First Coat and is also found in restaurants Little Seed and The Finch.
Ikebana Workshop | Saturday 23 June
Tickets: https://www.firstcoatstudios.com/workshops/
Facilitated by Sue Poole, a teacher of the Sogetsu School in Brisbane, this course is for beginners who want to learn the basic skills associated with the Japanese art of flower arranging. During the course you’ll learn about the history, tools, basic skills and the principles of sogetsu ikebana. Students will use hasami, containers and kenzans during the hands-on component of the course.
When:
Saturday 23 June, 10am – 3pm.
Cost:
5 hour session: $70 pp.
Bring Your Own:
Pen and paper and a small towel and bucket. Please wear closed in shoes.
All flowers and branches will be provided and participants will be able to take the flower/branch material home with them.
Who:
Only 8 places are available for participants aged 16 years+.
Slice & Dice | Acrylics with Brontë Naylor Workshop | Thursday 28 June
Tickets: https://www.firstcoatstudios.com/workshops/slice-dice-bronte-naylor
During this workshop you’ll create your own ready-to-hang artwork on ply board. Methods and content shared will come from Brontë’s own practice, which starts as a collage. The artist will provide insight and techniques to solve some of the mysteries of painting, like how to mark out images proportionately. Various achievable illustration techniques will be taught during the workshop so you can create your own artwork.
When:
Thursday 28 June, 6.00 – 8.30pm.
Cost:
2.5 hour session: $70 pp.
This includes materials, brushes and your own take home work.
Bring Your Own:
1 x apron or painting clothes. All materials and brushes are supplied, but you are more than welcome to bring your own.
This workshop is an over 18 event, participants are welcome to bring their own wine or beer.
Who:
Only 8 places are available for participants aged 18 years+.
About the Artist:
Brontë Naylor is a professional artist, with her illustrative work spanning across both gallery and public art realms. Her work simultaneously explores notions of the familiar, and the unfamiliar. The collaged imagery in her painted work slips between the digital and analogue which echoes her concerns surrounding the distribution and storage of memory, and how this presentation of information will inform decisions made for the future.
Instagram: @brontenaylor
