Our Guest Speaker for the KAS September Meeting was Heidi Willis . From our meeting reporter: Australian born, Heidi is an entirely self-taught Natural History watercolour artist, which means she paints any natural subject – including plants, animals or insects in their environment. Her work has been a hugely challenging journey which started when she was…
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The Ku-ring-gai Art Society celebrated its Golden Jubilee with a 50th Anniversary Book. This book on the history of the Society was launched July 2015 at the Golden Jubilee Awards Exhibition. With the generosity of two of our long standing members, Sandra Cadwallader and the late Mary Wood, it was possible to upgrade from a…
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Brandt Lewis conducted a workshop on Pastels at West Lindfield. Following in the technique pioneered by Degas, Brandt Lewis showed us how to start our pastel painting with a tonal charcoal drawing, subsequently adding the pastel colour. He also demonstrated how to make a pastel crayon. We beavered away at our pastel pictures during the day,…
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Our Guest Speaker for the KAS August Meeting was Debbie Mackinnon who presented on “Randomness in my Art Practice”. Debbie energised the KAS Audience with her much varied international career and life of Art. Debbie’s brilliant sense of “situational humour” had us all chuckling or smiling in recognition of similar experiences. Debbie shared her commitment to a…
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What a night! The KAS 50th Anniversary Awards night on the 24th July at the St Ives Shopping Village Gallery on the Ramps had record attendance. Guests dressed formally for the elite occasion enjoyed the beautiful artworks while sipping a cool drink and nibbling gourmet canapes. The formal proceedings were chaired by KAS President Malcolm Carver with…
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The following artworks found new homes at the KAS 50th Anniversary Awards Exhibition July 2015 Sales results to date: Sunday 2nd August, 5pm. No. Artist Title Cat No. 1 Cynthia Hundleby Asuncion Paraguay 143 2 Jo Macree Watermark 180 3 Leonie Fisher Cockatoo Island 107 4 Afia Roerink Mountain View 155 5 Sally Coffey Camellias 70…
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The KAS 50th Anniversary Awards Exhibition results were announced on 24th July at the Awards Celebration Event at St Ives Shopping Village Gallery on the Ramps. Category and Awards and Sponsors, 50th Annual Awards Exhibition The Spirit of Ku-ring-gai 1st $1000 ($650 Ku-ring-gai Council + $350 KAS) Sherna Kotwal 2nd $500 ($300 Ku-ring-gai Council + $200 KAS) David Hammersley…
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Julie Simmons conducted a fascinating workshop on a watercolour Sydney Street scene to a full classroom. The class warmed up with preliminary exercises drawing and painting figures and cars, and then, led by Julie, took on the full street scene. At end of day the results across the class were exceptional. Julie Simmons Born…
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