JO DARVALL | WORKSHOPS
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2 Day | Saturday 12 – Sunday 13 September 2026
STORY, PLACE, AND THE ARTIST BOOK – only 4 places left! Offers artists an opportunity to develop a visual and narrative response to the bush through the creation of a small, handmade artist book. Participants will consider what story they wish to tell — this may be a poem, a series of words, fragments of text, or a non-linear narrative. We will plan the structure of the book, including page count, sequence, and flow. Using sewing needles, thread, and simple binding techniques, participants will construct a rudimentary artist book. Surfaces will be built through drawing, collage, and the incorporation of existing works such as prints or studies. The workshop focuses on how images and materials interact across pages, how rhythm and pacing are created through turning pages, and how meaning accumulates through sequence rather than single images. This workshop is ideal for artists interested in narrative, material experimentation, and expanding their practice into book form. All levels |
4 Day | Monday 14 – Thursday 17 September 2026
WORKING SLOWLY: TRADITIONAL MATERIALS AND LANDSCAPE Designed for artists seeking to deepen their engagement with landscape through a slower, more attentive studio practice. The focus is on working meaningfully with traditional materials while observing and responding to the surrounding environment. Gathering information through observation, photography, and brief sketching. Demonstrations will focus on simplifying forms, identifying structure within the bush, and mixing colour directly in response to place. Participants will create a range of watercolour beginnings, allowing water, brushes, and pigment to establish the initial surface. Artists will work back into these surfaces using washes, pencil, and pastel. Watercolour is approached as a responsive and exploratory medium, helping participants to loosen their mark-making and build confidence early in the workshop. We will then shift to acrylic painting and surface preparation. Participants will develop a series of prepared grounds on multiple sheets of paper, experimenting with partial backgrounds rather than fully resolved compositions. Acrylic paint will be applied using rags, brushes, and found materials to create layered, active surfaces. All levels |
JO DARVALL
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Jo Darvall’s works have been featured in twenty solo exhibitions and fifty-eight group exhibitions in Australia, China, London, Fiji, and Singapore. Her art articulates her sensory encounters with landscape, inspired by frequent walks in nearby forests and coastal areas where she draws, paints, and listens. Jo’s work highlights her connection to place, blending abstraction and figuration to express the interplay between the two.
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Jo Darvall’s works have been featured in twenty solo exhibitions and fifty-eight group exhibitions in Australia, China, London, Fiji, and Singapore. Her art articulates her sensory encounters with landscape, inspired by frequent walks in nearby forests and coastal areas where she draws, paints, and listens. Jo’s work highlights her connection to place, blending abstraction and figuration to express the interplay between the two.
