Dear WABA members, the WABA 2016 Members Exhibition is now OPEN FOR ENTRY.
Exhibition Dates: 24 November - 4 December.
Location: The Woolshed Gallery, Strathnairn Arts Association, 90 Stockdill Drive, Holt, ACT.
Entries close: Friday 21 October 2016.
Click here to enter online.
Click here to pay online.
Link to entry on WABA Web Site here
Website Gallery: 24 November until 31 December 2016.
We look forward to receiving your entries!
As part of the Spring Events program, the Parliament House Shop is seeking WABA artists:
For: Art Demonstration
Place: Queen’s Terrace, Parliament House
or Parliament House Shop
Time: Saturday 10 October, 10.30am or 1.30pm
Contact: Halina Steele at steele@bigblue.net.au to register your interest.
This is a great opportunity for you to demonstrate your skills and promote your artworks in a popular tourist attraction, providing great exposure for your art and for WABA!
Dear WABA members,
You are invited to a field trip to Australian National Wildlife Collection at the National Facilities and Collections, CSIRO, A.C.T.
The visit will take place at 10:30 am on Friday 14 October.
This is a Members only opportunity to see inside one of the largest wildlife collections in Australia. CSIRO Collections hold almost 200 000 wildlife specimens. This includes a range of skins, skeletons, specimens in spirit, bird egg collections, a wildlife sound library and frozen tissue.
The terrestial collection contains Reptlies, Amphibians, Birds, Mammals and Marsupials. An excellent opportunity to take as many reference photos, sketches, colour swatches as possible for your next exhibition or painting.
Director Leo Joseph will introduce us to the collections and the different facets and types of specimens available to us. We’ll have time after this to sit quietly and draw.
Location: CSIRO National Facilities and Collections, Bellenden Street, CRACE. ACT
Meet at the carpark at 10am. Directions will be emailed to participants as a little tricky to find.
When: 10am - Carpark (10.30am - Entry) - Friday 14th October 2016
Bring: Sketch books and drawing equipment of your choice and camera.
Fee: FREE to Members
RSVP: by 30th September to Chris Rockley - WABA Field Excursion Officer
Phone: 0405 102063
To download flier click here
Email: chris@chrisrockley.com
Hello WABA members,
The 'Art of Nature' 2016 WABA Annual members exhibition is open for entry.
For full details of exhibition, and to enter online please click here
To pay for you entries online please click here
To view links on WABA website please click here
If you have any questions or requests please contact WABA by email at waba.committee@gmail.com, or phone on 0422 405 658.
We look forward to receiving your entries!
Thankyou,
WABA
Members are invited to join a WABA field trip to a local daffodil farm near Yass.
This is an opportunity to see a large range of daffodil varieties (including jonquils) grown by local enthusiast Lawrence Trevanion.
Lawrence has been growing daffodils in Yass since 1997 and supplies cut flowers and bulbs at markets and via his webpage.
Artists may bring cameras, sketch books, field work art materials. Please also wear sturdy shoes as the grounds may be muddy. You may also wish to bring a light lunch or snacks and drinks for the trip.
There will be an opportunity to buy some daffodils on the day.
Event: Field Trip to Murrumbateman Daffodil Farm
Date/Time: Saturday 10 September 2016, 10.30am – 12.30pm
Address: 116 Dogtrap Road
Directions:
The turnoff to Dogtrap Road is opposite the entrance to Cooma Cottage. It is 5-10 minutes from Yass, about 40 minutes from Canberra. If you use navigation, use Marchmont rather than Yass.
Please note there are NO facilities on the property. It is just a paddock with trees daffodils and kangaroos, and some very large rarely seen brown snakes. It has an unfenced dam so if children come someone will need to keep an eye on them.
RSVP: Please contact Julia Landford by Thursday 8 September if you would like to come along:
click here to download pdf flier
Email: ajlandford@gmail.com
Mobile: 0414 342 839
Hello WABA Members,
You are invited to attend the WABA QUARTERLY MEETING
Date: Saturday 20 August
Location: Banks Building, Australian National Botanic Gardens
Time: 1.00-3.00 pm.
Program of events:
Meeting: an overview of current and future WABA activities
Refreshments
Guest Presenter: Leanne Pope, local Wiradjuri artist and Cultural Arts teacher at the Yurauna Centre, Canberra Institute of Technology. Leanne will demonstrate and teach how to use your creative thinking in a sustainable manner to transform household products into a eucalyptus gum leaf and blossoms. She will also demonstrate how the colours of birds, in particular the eastern rosella, can assist your understanding of the colour wheel.
Please BYO water colour pencils and a selection of brushes (brushes are optional).
Leanne has recently published her first book, High Chair on the Hill. The works created for this publication and associated exhibition will be the basis for this presentation.
© Leanne Pope
© Leanne Pope
Come and meet with fellow artists, and be inspired. Look forward to seeing you there!
For further information, please contact:
Prue Sailer
President, WABA
Dear WABA members,
You are invited to attend a Colour Mixing and Matching Workshop presented by Prue Sailer.
In this one-day workshop, the tutor, Dr Prue Sailer, will guide the students to explore the fundamental principles of seeing colour. Students will then apply these principles to direct mixing and layering techniques, and to enable students to confidently match and mix colours more accurately.
Natural subject matter will be used in order to produce several studies in either watercolour or acrylic.
1. Introduction: the science of colour
2. The 6 ‘primaries’: colour biases
3. Seeing and identifying colours in your subject
4. Mixing to create the colours you want
5. Bringing it together: finished studies
Date and Time: Sunday, 21 August 2016, 9.30am – 4.30pm
Location: Jerrabomberra Wetlands Nature Reserve, 2 Dairy Road, Fyshwick
Workshop Fee: Member: $110, Non-member $120
Maximum number: 12
Bookings and enquiries: Nilavan Adams, nilavan@hotmail.com or (02) 62543989
Please contact Nilavan to confirm that a place is still available before making payment.
Direction to the venue will be sent after fee payment has been received. Please bring your own lunch. Morning and afternoon tea will be provided.
Materials list:
Paint of your choice (acrylic, watercolour)
Watercolour paper/canvas paper suitable for acrylics
Drawing pencils, brushes, rags, water jars
Your choice of natural objects to use for studies: plant, flower, shell, bark, etc.
Thankyou.
Dear WABA members,
Just a reminder that entries for Canberra Botanical 2016 are due in by 8th August 2016. All the information is available on the website www.canberrabotanical.com.au
Artists will be notified of selection week beginning 15th August 2016.
Please note framing requirements on the website.
Looking forward to your entries.
Viv Pinder
Canberra Botanical
Dear WABA Members,
Exhibition dates: 24 November – 4 December 2016
Location: The Woolshed Gallery, Strathnairn Arts Association, 90 Stockdill Drive, Holt, ACT
Opening: Saturday 26 November, 2pm
Entries Close: Friday 21 October
Online entry form will be available on our website very soon!
We need your help to ensure we present an exciting and successful exhibition. All contributions of assistance will be greatly appreciated, so please consider volunteering to help with:
Fundraising
Setup and packdown
Gallery sitting and sales
Roster coordination
Catering coordination
Advertising and promotion
If you are willing to help with any of these aspects of the exhibition, please fill in your details below and return by 5 August 2016 to the committee at waba.committee@gmail.com
| Name | Contact Number | |
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| Setup and packdown | ||
| Gallery sitting and sales | ||
| Roster coordination | ||
| Catering coordination | Advertising and Promotion |
THANK YOU
Hello WABA members,
Your are invited to attend the Australian Garden History Society, ACT, Monaro and Riverina Branch Annual Lecture.
Speaker: Leonie Norton will give a lecture on 'Marrianne Collinson Campbell - A privileged Life, 1827 – 1903'.
Leonie Norton gives a fascinating insight into the life of Marrianne Collinson Campbell, an extraordinary woman of her time. She was a talented botanical artist with a passion for flora and fauna and an amateur architect for Duntroon with a natural gift for landscape gardening. While living in Duntroon she was widely known and respected for her medical dispensary. Marrianne took watercolour painting lessons from her father who kept watercolour sketchbooks from his travels in the army. Her great aunt was a well respected artist in Sydney town who mentored Marrianne’s talents and Conrad Martens also gave her lessons. Robert Campbell was her great uncle and was Sydney’s first shipping agent and a landholder and pastoralist. Marrianne married his son George who inherited the Duntroon Estate where they moved in 1857. She set about transforming the original homestead into a Gothic Revival house. The landscaped gardens boasted a maze and a conservatory. Flowers and trees in Duntroon gardens were grown from seeds sent by her English great, great grandfather, botanist and plant importer Peter Collinson and from seeds and plants she also collected from her travels. These complimented the existing Australian native plants.
Leonie Norton is a practicing and exhibiting professional botanical artist, one of Australia’s most highly qualified botanical educators and a leading artist in her field. She is an international tutor of high regard and demand and is the author of Women of Flowers: Botanical Art in Australia from the 1830s – 1960s, the only published book on women’s Australian Botanical Art. Her paintings are in private and public collections, both in Australia and overseas, including the prestigious Hunt Institute of Botanical Documentation in the USA. She teaches regular courses and weekend workshops throughout Australia and in New Zealand, Fiji, Canada and the UK and has taught botanical art field techniques at Macquarie University. In addition, she is an International External Examiner for Botanical Art Certificate courses in the USA and has been involved in selection and judging for Australian botanical art exhibitions.
Leonie exhibits annually at the Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens, the Botanical Art Society of Australia exhibition and the Canberra Botanic exhibition. She is past President of the Botanical Art Society of Australia and remains an active member. She is a regular contributor to Australia Artist Magazine, Artists’ Palette and Back to Basics and Drawing & Inspiration publications.
Details of Lecture:
When: Thursday 25 August, 5.30 for refreshments, lecture starts at 5.45pm. (Please note that the lecture will follow the Branch AGM starting at 5PM).
Where: Menzies Room, National Archives of Australia, Queen Victoria Terrace, Parkes
Cost: AGHS Members $10, Non-members $15 - including refreshments Bookings
If you are interested please contact Helen Ellioth at ellioth@bigpond.net.au or phone 62844749 and pay on the day.
AGHS acknowledges the support of the National Archives of Australia in providing the venue for this lecture.
Hello WABA Members,
A wide selection of Cards of WABA Members’ art works are now available online to buy at the WABA Web site.
The Cards are $6.00 and Bookmarks $4.00 including postage and handling.
To view WABA Cards for sale online, click here
Thankyou.
Dear WABA Members,
Megan Spiers 'Studies in Acrylic' workshop has been postponed - please watch notice board for further information.
Hello WABA Members.
To renew your membership please click on the link here and complete the online 2016/17 membership form. Alternatively you can go to WABA Web site here and follow link complete form.
When completing the form, please select either new membership or renewal membership option, and complete as much of the form as you wish, the only mandatory details are Name, Phone, Email, Membership Subscription and Subscription Payments.
If you are renewing your 2015/16 membership, please select 'Use current details' if your current details are still correct.
When you complete the WABA Membership 2016/17 form, your membership will commence July 2016 and end June 2017.
Thankyou
WABA Committee
Hello WABA Members,
The latest/June 2016 newsletter has details of the 'Tree Talk Draw' National Arboretum in August 2016.
The details list the incorrect date, the date SHOULD BE 7 August 2016, NOT 6 August 2016 so correct details are as follows:
FIELD TRIP: 'Tree Talk Draw' National Arboretum.
WHEN: Sunday 7 August, 10am Price: Free
MEET: At the Welcome Desk in the Village Centre, National Arboretum, A.C.T. Forest Drive, off Tuggeranong Parkway, Weston Creek.
RSVP: By 4th August to Chris Rockley, WABA Field Trip Coordinator.
Email: chris@observatorium.com.au or telephone 0405 102963
Thankyou,
WABA Committee.
Hello WABA Members,
You are invited to attend a Colour Mixing and Matching workshop on Sunday 21 August 2016.
In this one-day workshop, the tutor, Dr Prue Sailer, will guide the students to explore the fundamental principles of seeing colour. Students will then apply these principles to direct mixing and layering techniques, and to enable students to confidently match and mix colours more accurately...
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Hello WABA Members,
Just letting you know that SeeChange festival is on in and around Jervis Bay until 13th June.
Catherine Woods has her studio open.
Website - http://www.jervisbayarts.asn.au/ and follow the link to Seechnage
Dear WABA members,
You’re most welcome to visit Arlene's latest solo exhibition Fur, Feather, Rock & Leaf at the Cork Street Café and Gallery in the beautiful village of Gundaroo (only 35–40 minutes’ drive from Civic) – a great place to relax on a nice autumn day!
The exhibition is currently open, and will run through to at least the end of May. Opening hours for the café are Thursday (lunch, dinner), Fri (lunch, dinner), Sat (breakfast, lunch, dinner), Sun (breakfast, lunch, dinner), but closed on Mon, Tue and Wed.
For further information about the exhibition and myself, plus directions to Gundaroo, please click on this link:
****** This workshop is now fully booked - if still interested please contact Nilavan Adams to be added onto workshop waiting list at nilavan@hotmail.com or (02) 62543989 ******
Dear WABA Members, you are invited to join us for a one day workshop with experienced artist and tutor Lesley Wallington.
This class will focus on illustrating subjects from nature using the technique of watercolour over fine pencil drawing.
The day will include instruction on using graphite pencils to build a drawing with strong value structure. Basic watercolour techniques, physical colour mixing and transparent layering will be demonstrated and students will work towards completing several studies using watercolour over pencil.
Class is suitable for all levels of experience
Date & Time: Saturday 28th May 2016, 9.30 am – 4.30 pm
Location: Jerrabomberra Wetlands Nature Reserve Office, 2 Dairy Road, Fyshwick
Workshop fee: Member $110, Non-member $120.
Material list and direction to the venue will be sent after fee payment has been received. Please bring your own lunch. Morning and afternoon tea will be provided.
****** This workshop is now fully booked - if still interested please contact Nilavan Adams to be added onto workshop waiting list at nilavan@hotmail.com or (02) 62543989 ******
Dear WABA Members, you are invited to join us for a one day workshop with experienced artist and tutor Lesley Wallington.
This class will focus on illustrating subjects from nature using the technique of watercolour over fine pencil drawing.
The day will include instruction on using graphite pencils to build a drawing with strong value structure. Basic watercolour techniques, physical colour mixing and transparent layering will be demonstrated and students will work towards completing several studies using watercolour over pencil.
Class is suitable for all levels of experience
Date & Time: Saturday 28th May 2016, 9.30 am – 4.30 pm
Location: Jerrabomberra Wetlands Nature Reserve Office, 2 Dairy Road, Fyshwick
Workshop fee: Member $110, Non-member $120
Bookings and enquiries:..Nilavan Adams, nilavan@hotmail.com or (02) 62543989
Material list and direction to the venue will be sent after fee payment has been received. Please bring your own lunch. Morning and afternoon tea will be provided.
Please see attached Registration Form here
Dear Members,
Our next Quarterly Meeting will be a good one, so don't miss out! We will have Megan Spiers as our guest, who is an accomplished local wildlife artist specialising in birds. Megan will be sharing images from her travels and art process in a short presentation, and will follow up with a workshop so you can benefit from her expertise.
If you would like to attend the workshop, please bring the following:
Materials -
1. favourite brushes, at least one small for fine work - I mostly use filberts
2. acrylic paint for monochromatic sketching - I suggest payne's grey, raw / burnt umber or burnt sienna, but members' personal preference is fine
3. water pots and palette or small container
4. watercolour paper pad (eg A3)
5. canvas or canvas board - bring several if members intend to sketch directly onto it.
Hope to see you there!