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Weekly Watercolour Classes from august 5, 2025

NZ$340.00

LIVE - Weekly Watercolour Classes, 8 Classes, Tuesdays from august 5th.

This term is more about mixed water-media and playing with marks and paints and other media!!

YOUR CHOICE - bring your reference or subject and paint !!

NEW TIME

AFTERNOON class 12.30 to 3.30pm

(Adults only 18+ years)

read more about this class

My classes are mostly mixed levels of painters, beginners to enthusiasts. Maximum 12 students in each class.

ALL STUDENTS - Please bring your own subject matter with all your resources and workings.

ALWAYS bring your sketchbook and spare watercolour paper - essential for every class!

Amanda's demonstrations include an emphasis on design principles, composition, colour, value and relationships. By helping you to simplify what you see and how you think, Amanda will work with you to develop quick and energetic painting skills whilst focusing on your painting "idea". A wonderful opportunity to paint with a contemporary watercolour master.

Venue: Gifford Gallery (behind children's playground)

27a Poronui St Mt Eden

materials list for beginners

Amanda will be in touch closer to the time

TERMS & CONDITIONS

Enrolments are confirmed on receipt of payment in full. Students who are currently enrolled in a class will be given preferential booking to enrol in the following term.

Following the preferential booking deadline, enrolments will be opened to new students. Classes must be booked for the full term, no part term or single classes will be booked.

Refunds, less a $50 administration fee, will be made to students who withdraw from a course up to 10 days before course commencement. No refunds will be made after this date. Transfers are not available. We reserve the right to provide a substitute tutor or reschedule a class if necessary.

If you are unable to attend a class due to illness, or for personal reasons, you will not be entitled to a refund for classes missed or to transfer to another course to make up your missed class.

Filming of my demonstrations is not permitted but you are welcome to take photographs.

Photographs taken by me may be used for marketing purposes.

Amanda is a qualified Adult Educator. Special needs and school-age student tuition is not available - please do not be offended if your application is declined. Depending on circumstances, high-need adults may be accepted with an attending helper/caregiver, please contact me to discuss. Bookings made without consultation will not be refunded.

Your booking is automatic acceptance of our terms and conditions.

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Weekly Watercolour Classes from Tuesday Oct 14 2025

NZ$340.00

LIVE - Weekly Watercolour Classes, 8 Classes, from Tuesday Oct 14

This term is more about mixed water-media and playing with marks and paints and other media!!

YOUR CHOICE - bring your reference or subject and paint !!

AFTERNOON class 12.30 to 3.30pm

(Adults only 18+ years)

read more about this class

My classes are mostly mixed levels of painters, beginners to enthusiasts. Maximum 12 students in each class.

ALL STUDENTS - Please bring your own subject matter with all your resources and workings.

ALWAYS bring your sketchbook and spare watercolour paper - essential for every class!

Venue: Gifford Gallery (behind children's playground)

27a Poronui St Mt Eden

materials list for beginners

Amanda will be in touch closer to the time

TERMS & CONDITIONS

Enrolments are confirmed on receipt of payment in full. Students who are currently enrolled in a class will be given preferential booking to enrol in the following term.

Following the preferential booking deadline, enrolments will be opened to new students. Classes must be booked for the full term, no part term or single classes will be booked.

If you are unable to attend a class due to illness, or for personal reasons, you will not be entitled to a refund for classes missed or to transfer to another course to make up your missed class.

Filming of my demonstrations is not permitted but you are welcome to take photographs.

Photographs taken by me may be used for marketing purposes.

Your booking is automatic acceptance of our terms and conditions.

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NEW EXHIBITION!!

Coatesville
Art in the Garden

Sat & Sun, March 22 - 23, 2025

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Winner innovation in Watercolour
splash WNZ 2024

Available $975
shipping additional NZ only

Splash® 2024
Watercolour New Zealand’s Annual National Exhibition
Opening night Friday 18 October, 5.30pm

Saturday 19 - Monday 28 October 2024
Open 10am – 5pm Daily including all Labour Weekend

Free Entry

Pataka Art & Museum, Porirua City Centre.

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A three-day Masterclass held in Mandurah, Western Australia

In this Masterclass, Amanda will be teaching and demonstrating with an emphasis on design principles, composition, colour, value and relationships. By helping you to simplify what you see and how you think, Amanda will work with you to develop quick and energetic painting skills whilst focusing on your painting “idea”.

A wonderful opportunity to paint with a contemporary watercolour master.

Amanda will also be teaching:

Quick sketching for plein air painting, with an emphasis on architecture
Three types of perspective: atmospheric, colour and linear
How to work with a limited palette
Dominance of value contrast
Learning how to simplify the drawing and painting process
How to capture a dynamic street scene

September 19, 20 & 21 Mandurah
Cost: $570 per person Register and pay

Painting Holiday Lucca Italy 2024

Come paint with me in Italy!!

Painting holiday workshops designed for small groups

Sunday 26 May to Saturday June 1, 2024

5 days and 6 nights
painting fabulous Lucca in Tuscany Italy

€975.00 includes tuition, evening dinners and excursions

READ MORE

not available until further notice :(

Open Day, Demonstration and Class

Saturday, January 21, 2023 10-3pm.

FREE demonstration - RSVP
starting promptly at 10am until 12pm
(please take your seat at 9.45am, the Gallery door will be closed promptly at 10am).
From 11.30 my demonstration will be followed with a question and answer session about my painting
and signing up for a class

FREE LESSON - FULL
for weekly class sign-ups from 1pm - 3pm
BOOK YOUR CLASS HERE
(bring your own painting materials, still life set up available or bring your own subject resource).
If you're a beginner, be prepared to play and have a go!
beginner's painting sets available for purchase

As a wee New Year's gift for my VIP's - FULL
I have space for you to come and spend the day painting from 10-3pm
with a free lesson from 1pm.
Please rsvp below, limited numbers, first in, first served - tx!!

You will need to book your seat now as there is limited seating in the Gallery - WAITLIST

Venue: Gifford Gallery Poronui Street, Mt Eden, behind the children's playground
or you can just google map me

coffee and tea available, $1 each

PLEASE - NO PHOTOGRAPHY OR VIDEO RECORDING

Small paintings Christmas Sale

50% OFF until 11 December

see them all here!

Triplets, en plein air

Thrilled that Tiplets has won a Merit Award at Splash 2022

I suspect that this is the first en plein air work to win an award at National level in NZ - yay!!

AVAILABLE from Splash 2022
Watercolour New Zealand

Sadness upon the passing of the great Ken Howard, September 11, 2022

"For me painting is about three things. It is about revelation, communication and celebration. By revelation I mean giving people a way of seeing, revealing the world around them in a way they have never seen before, opening their eyes."

"To catch the light and its changing effects, you’ve got to paint quickly. Practice makes you fast. At the same time it is a constant struggle – you are constantly questioning, sometimes questioning your own ability."

"Everyone should paint, it makes your life richer."

"painting is a process, a verb, not an end result. It is the act of engaging and of creating and deepening a connection with what surrounds us." Peter Brown

5 days painting

fabulous

Lucca Tuscany

6-10 June 2022

read more here

Harum Scarum - FIRST PRIZE.
Watercolour New Zealand Summer Competition, sponsored by Winsor & Newton

What the judges said:
A beautifully composed work of art which evokes the feeling of summer holidays near the water. You are drawn into the picture which tells a story. The more you look the more you see. Extremely skilful use of watercolour. Lovely harmonious colours with fluid under-washes.

BUCKET LIST

"Destroyed" but now safely returned to my studio

AVAILABLE

Auckland Art Show
NEW DATE Opening Thursday 18th November
tickets available
the Cloud, Auckland

Auckland Plein Air Artists
Inaugural Invitational Exhibition
Opening Sunday 12th Sept 4pm
The Lake House, Fred Thomas Drive Takapuna

CANCELLED my en plein air paintings can be purchased directly from my web Gallery Page

Bait & Ice
Splash 22, Recipient of an Honourable Mention, awarded by Juror Keiko Tenabe

LIMITED EDITION FINE ART PRINT #11 NOW AVAILABLE!!

Beginners One Day Workshop

Saturday June 19, 2021

Mt Eden Auckland New Zealand
BOOK ONLINE

WORKSHOP Watercolour New Zealand
Generating Design with Imagination

July 24-25th 2021

Karori Arts Centre, Wellington email me to sign-up

Watercolour Studio
Open Day - FREE!
Saturday January 23, 10 - 3pm
Demonstration 10.30 to 12pm
VENUE: Gifford Gallery, 27a Poronui St,
Mt Eden Auckland NZ
BOOK ONLINE HERE

A recent article about me in
American Watercolor Weekly

thrilled to say:
1st Prize
Watercolour New Zealand online competiton

Auckland Viaduct studio greys

see my Paintbox Tips for more about this painting

and a detail pic:

NEW WORKSHOPS!!

Weekly Classes BOOK ONLINE

Watercolour Painting Holiday Workshop
Lucca Italy May 2022

Beginners watercolour
Saturday March 20, 2021 BOOK ONLINE