MIX IT UP! Colour Workshop

Exploring colour in oils - Jan 18th 2026 workshop with Catherine Fitz-Gerald

Ready to bring more life and energy to your paintings? Join us for a relaxed, hands-on workshop all about mixing colour with oil paints. Whether you’re just starting out or already confident with a brush, this small, friendly class will help you see colour in new and exciting ways. 

We’ll dive into the basics of colour theory—warm and cool tones, complementary contrasts, and how to create glowing, nuanced hues that enliven your art. 

Expect plenty of practical demos, personal guidance, and good conversation along the way. It’s a chance to loosen up, play with paint, and discover how a few well-chosen colours can express mood, light, and emotion.

If you’ve ever wondered how to avoid muddying colours when blending two pigments this is the class for you.

Sunday January 18th 11am - 3.30pm Duthy Street Art Supplies Unley SA

All materials are supplied, though you’re welcome to bring your own favourites. Come and enjoy a fun, creative day in a supportive studio environment— leave with fresh confidence, and the building blocks to create your own rich palette. 

A simple lunch, tea, coffee and biscuits are provided.

Maximum class size 12. Cost $120      

Textures in oil on aluminium October 19th 2025

October 19th 11am-3.30pm at Duthy Street Art Supplies 6 Duthy St Unley

This workshop is about exploration and expression without the pressure of trying to create something for anyone but yourself. Break away from brushes and use your palette knife for more than just mixing paint. 

Join award-winning artist Catherine Fitz-Gerald in a small class that includes demos, individual support, and plenty of time to paint.

Have fun with friends and enjoy this 1/2 day workshop 11am to 3.30pm with heartwarming homemade soup and crusty bread, tea and coffee provided for lunch.

We will create a painting in oils on aluminium and discuss how to use the same techniques on other surfaces. It’s a place to explore and develop ideas. Bring your own landscape image or springboard off one of mine.

Learn to use texture to create alla prima art that is expressive and personal.

Suitable for adults with varying degrees of art experience, from a beginner to an experienced artist wanting to try something new.

All materials supplied.

Painting demonstration Pepper St Gallery Jan 25th 2025 at 2-2.30pm

Hmmm still deciding what to paint on Saturday. A warning, I’m not fast!

Painting white fabric has its challenges, maybe a simple Brussells’ lace.

No need to book, just come. I’m happy to answer any questions you might have about your own paintings.

IF FABRICS COULD SPEAK - participate in a community art project

I invite you to participate in a new project exploring fabrics and the way family memories and culture are held within their weft and warp. It will be a inclusive celebration of the private creativity of our socially and culturally diverse community.

Do you have a fabric that has special meaning to you? Maybe it has been passed down in your family. Perhaps you learnt to sew, knit, weave, embroider with your mother or grandmother. Or it may have a history of manufacture in your culture like silk, brocade or linen.

During SALA I would like to record the special memories of your fabric and photograph a still life based around your fabric during one on one development sessions. Please email me to discuss your access needs and book your weekday sessions via my contact page.

Sessions will be held from August 7th to 22nd 10am, 12am and 2am.

If you would like to participate and need another time frame please do not hesitate to call me on 0481215753.

The photographs will be printed and displayed as part of an ongoing SALA installation. Later the stories and photographs will be combined in an Adelaide Fringe Exhibition in 2023.

Proudly supported by a City of Burnside Community Grant

ACCESS ALL AREAS - Lightning talk June 9th 2pm

An supper-cloth embroidered with floral motifs. The needle, still threaded, holding it’s place in the unfinished work.

ACCESS ALL AREAS symposium June 8th and 9th at AGSA

Oil on aluminium - Burnside Art Group

I’m excited to have been invited to share the joys of working in oils on aluminium with the Burnside Art Group in a weekend workshop September Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th 10am-3pm at my home and studio in Toorak Gardens.

What a lovely group of people! Even if you are not a member you may attend workshops. Cost $135. Please contact me or Viv Bishop at vivbish@adam.com.au for details and to enrol.

'Said Hanrahan' free performance

Event Reading of a humourous poem accompanied by rainsticks made in the workshops

Date Sunday July 18th at 2.30pm

Booking Free ticketed event, please book at http://bit.ly/SH1807

Venue Fleurieu Arthouse 202 Main St McLaren Vale

This performance really depends on audience and workshop participants joining in! It’s a first for me and I hope you will enjoy this reading of OBrien’s humourous poem on the ending of a drought.

Rainsticks - Teens School Holiday Workshop

Date                                      Sunday 11th July

Time                                     10.30-12.00 morning session, create your sound & make your person high rainstick

12.00 - 12.30 lunch break, due to Covid restrictions please bring your own

                                                12.30-2.00 afternoon session, decorate your rainstick

Participants            Ages approx 12 +

Cost $65 per person

Booking http://bit.ly/rainstick11

All participants are invited to display their rainsticks in an installation as part of the Water Ways Exhibition.

I hope everyone will also join me in a performance of Said Hanrahan, a humourous poem about the ending of a drought, on July 18th at 2.30pm. The rainsticks will make a wonderful storm break!

Venue Fleurieu Arthouse, 202 Main Street McLaren Vale

Rainsticks - Parent and child School Holiday Workshop

Date                                      Monday 5th July

Time                                     10.30-12.00 morning session, create your sound and make your rainstick

12.00 - 12.30 lunch break, due to Covid restrictions please bring your own

                                                12.30-2.00 afternoon session, decorate your rainstick

Participants            Adult and child approximately 7-12

Cost $50 per person

Booking http://bit.ly/rainstick05

All participants are invited to display their rainsticks in an installation as part of the Water Ways Exhibition.

I hope everyonewill also join me in a performance of Said Hanrahan a humourous poem about the ending of a drought on July 18th at 2.30pm. The rainsticks will make a wonderful storm break!

Venue Fleurieu Arthouse, 202 Main Street McLaren Vale