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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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GET YOUR ARTISTIC LICENCE
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:
Cost: $570 per person Register and pay 
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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 :(
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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
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
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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 |
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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." |
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"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
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Harum Scarum - FIRST PRIZE.
Watercolour New Zealand Summer Competition, sponsored by Winsor & Newton
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.
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.
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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!!
Splash 22, Recipient of an Honourable Mention, awarded by Juror Keiko Tenabe
LIMITED EDITION FINE ART PRINT #11 NOW AVAILABLE!!
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WORKSHOP Watercolour New Zealand
Generating Design with Imagination July 24-25th 2021 Karori Arts Centre, Wellington email me to sign-up |
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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 
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A recent article about me in
American Watercolor Weekly 
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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:
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NEW WORKSHOPS!!
Weekly Classes BOOK ONLINE Watercolour Painting Holiday Workshop Lucca Italy May 2022 Beginners watercolour Saturday March 20, 2021 BOOK ONLINE |
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Watercolour Painting Holiday Workshop
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Latest Publication
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The Artist's Palette 141,
Demonstration and Insight Articles
June 2015
click the image to read the article
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NEW!! Beautiful
watercolour designs from
Villeroy & Boch - Mariefleur
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Santa Vittoria's beauty in every bubble advertisement and of course - there's so much beauty in a watercolour!! |