1st March + 7th & 8th March - Series 1 of set of seasonal workshops.

Day 1 of Series 1:  Sunday 1st March 10am to 4pm.  

Immersion Day.  This day will include a morning walkthrough of the bush space and in the Plains Grassy Forest and Forest Bog areas led by Julie Murray who is a wonderful ecology consultant working extensively with Cheryl and her husband on this space.  There will be time to take photos, draw, and engage your senses with the sounds, silence and smells.  This process will be about opening up new ways of looking, pulling back the layers and embedding the magic of place.  

Day 2 of Series 1:  Saturday 7th March 10am - 4pm

Ink-making Day.  To capture the essence of the place from Day 1, you will be creating your own natural inks made from ‘place’.  Using some harvested vegetation from Day 1 and also from your own garden or special place you can tell the stories of surroundings.  

Day 3 of Series 1: Sunday 8th March 10am - 4pm

Creation Day.  This day is about play, fun and experimentation! No expectations required.  You will explore the use of your inks (made the day before) plus additional inks supplied with techniques such as lino printing, painting and splodge painting, nature printing and stitching.  Feeling the satisfaction in paying homage to the natural world around us and to your special place of the heart you will create beautiful and meaningful art.

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16th March-12th April - As Artists in Residence at Yinnar, Victoria we will be running a number of small 1/2 day and 1 day workshops based around natural inks.  These will mostly be drop-in, come as you can sessions that will be centred around a project idea (that we have yet to finalise).

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June (Series 2) and October (Series 3) - a complete hands-on engagement with a commitment to three all-day session opportunities (most likely a Sunday and then the following Saturday & Sunday).  We will be exploring how to capture a sense of 'Place', then make inks based on vegetation and foliage, with the final session all about using the inks and various papers and fabric to create art inspired by our earlier exploration of 'Place'.  This will be held on Cheryl’s property and studio at Tanjil South, Victoria.