Susan P displaying the newly printed, first time viewed Vision Statement sign. Thank you, Susan, for all the work you put into developing the vision statement and thank you members for your inputs to it. ... Full article is in the March newsletter.

Judith Dimitrov must be feeling pleased on seeing some of our members drawing and painting the still life subjects that she has arranged. ... See more photos in the March newsletter.

Our president, Helen De Jonge and secretary, Sue Maas, represented the GDAS at the library's Hobbies Expo recently. They were armed with our newly revised brochure to hand to visitors to the expo. ... See full article in the March newsletter.

The lucky artists who attended the oil and acrylic workshop with Marc Poisson last weekend were treated to a brilliant two days of painting.... Full article and photos in February newsletter.

Tony's workshop was attended by 11 very enthusiastic members and non-members armed with their drawing and watercolour papers, graphite sticks, watercolours and brushes... Full article and photos in January newsletter.

It was a very successful and productive two day workshop with Ev Hales - a wonderful watercolour artist and art teacher. Full article and photos in November newsletter.

The November Life Drawing Session was attended
by 6 of our members. Our model was a man
from Canberra. See more photos in our November newsletter.

Our Goulburn Workers Club Annual Art Prize was very successful with 223 art works including Photography entered. There were many visitors over the long weekend. We sold 14 paintings all up which was very exciting. See more photos and info in October newsletter.

In Crookwell, on Saturday afternoon, 17th June, Margaret Kearns, Stavros's partner of 27 years, welcomed a large gathering of invited guests to the opening of the Exhibition to celebrate the life of Stavros Papantoniou. Carol Divall, from Gallery on Track was first to speak saying Stavros's life was a "Life well lived". See full article by Sue Maas and more photos in our newsletter

There was a great participation from members of our art society. Congratulations to those who sold their works! Donald De Jonge sold all of his woodturning entries. See more photos in our newsletter

This was well attended by 14 artists wanting to expand their watercolour skills. Here are some comments from participants... See full report in our Newsletter May 2023

It was disappointing that only 7 of us took up the opportunity to participate in Mark's workshop - and at such a low fee as with all our workshops this year. It's the first time any of us had been to one of Mark's workshops and we considered it to be time very well spent under his tuition... See full report in our Newsletter April 2023

On our painting days for the past few months there has been an empty space near the roller door, the spot where Stavros liked to sit and paint. That is going to remain as an empty space as our friend and member, Stavros, passed away at the end of his battle with cancer on Saturday 25th March, 2023... See full article in our Newsletter April 2023

See full report in our Newsletter March 2023

See full report in our Newsletter March 2023

See full report in our Newsletter February 2023

See full report in our December 2022 GDAS Newsletter

See full report in our December 2022 GDAS Newsletter

We had the opportunity to refresh our skills in charcoal portrait drawing in Katya's free workshop. Some of us were rather rusty as could be seen in our first, and even second, of the day's 4 portrait drawing exercises while others displayed their skills and natural talents right from the start of the day.
See full report in our December 2022 GDAS Newsletter

It was a most enjoyable evening and there were people still wandering around looking at the exhibition until about 9pm. Many more passed through the doors during the 3 days of it running. Congratulations to all the prize winners and to the entrants who sold works at the exhibition.
See full report in our October 2022 GDAS Newsletter

"Then Surviving the now" 12 August - 23 October 2022 at the Goulburn Club. This exhibition is devoted to the exploration of changes to commercial buildings in Auburn Street, main street of Goulburn, Australia's first inland city. We have seen a sad loss of so many beautiful heritage buildings in Goulburn GBD.

Watercolour has a reputation for being hard to handle. For the novice (like myself) it can be an intimidating medium to approach. However, all it takes, is the right materials and a good teacher to instil some confidence that will set you on your way to success.
See full report in our March 2022 GDAS Newsletter

Story is in our December 2021 GDAS Newsletter

Story is in our December 2021 GDAS Newsletter

On Saturday 29th May, ten Art Society members attended a fabulous portraiture workshop held by Katya Mortensen. The day began with the setup, which meant a couple of heaters needed to be turned on to try and warm the cool air...
Read more in our June 2021 GDAS Newsletter

There was a good and interesting variety of stalls at the Australian Scroll Saw Network exhibition, of which our art society was a part. Indeed, we were told that the art exhibition was a very important part of it....
Read more in our May Newsletter

There were 6 of us who attended Amanda's Mark Making in Pastel workshop. The day was divided into two. In the morning Amanda gave us notes and talked about pastel as well as demonstrating different ways to use marks and what we could do with pastels as shown on the 4 boards she had made...
Read more in our May Newsletter

Luckily the weather was not too cold, but our model needed a heater on to keep him warm. It would most likely have been better out in the sun – but what would passers by have said about that? There were 9 members participating and they all produced some very good drawings throughout the range of poses from short to long ones.
See more in our March Newsletter

GDAS members Stavros, Amanda and Alex at setting up
the Art section of the Goulburn Show 2021.
See more in our March Newsletter

President Helen De Jonge presenting Julia Laybutt with her Life Member Certificate at the February meeting.
See more in our February Newsletter

The 9 members present witnessed the debut
of Melbourne model, Rose, and close friend of
Katya and Alex, pose for our life drawing session.
See more in our February Newsletter

Ten of us there, busy at our work stations, but also chatting to each other and sharing art skills. See more photos in December Newsletter

Nineteen of us enjoyed our Christmas lunch gathering on The Deck at the Workers Club. Again it was a time of good cheer with much chatting and laughing amongst the members and spouses present. It was interesting to see that some people repeatedly win the little prize when they pull on bon-bons while others always lose. Obviously some GDAS members have that particular skill – just another skill that I'm lacking I suppose.
Anon (due to lack of Bon Bon skill).

At last on the first Saturday of December we reinstituted our Life Drawing session. It was so rewarding to see 11 of our members there for this important occasion. See full article in December Newsletter

On the 21st November Mitre 10 in Goulburn kindly allowed GDAS to use their front verandah and their BBQ to provide a BBQ which included sausage sandwiches, steak sandwiches, doughnuts and drinks. Mitre 10 customers were extremely happy at the yummy aroma of onions when they arrived. Thank you to all our members who helped out on the day and a special thanks to Mitre 10 for their hospitality. (Lesley Whitten)

A successful day was had with the attendance of eight GDAS members who participated in Katya's portrait workshop on Saturday the 14th November, which was held at the Art Studio from 10.00am – 4.00pm.
See full article by Amanda in November Newsletter

Our GDAS signs were installed.

Well, as to be expected, it was quite a challenge for all of us who attended Grace Paleg's workshop in The Art Studio.
See full article in November Newsletter

Incognito behind their masks were 12 of our members following safe practices in regards to social distancing and wearing of masks to the GDAS general meeting and AGM in the Goulburn Workers Club Station Room on Saturday, 8th August.
See more info in our August newsletter

See the article about our Life Drawing experience in our February newsletter .

It was gratifying to see a number of members throw their weight into the preparations for the Open Day.
See full article in our February newsletter .

Our art society has now started its permanent collection of art works with Aina Atkin's generous donation of several paintings including two of her works, two by Margaret Laird-Chown and two of each of the very well known and highly respected Alex Hall and Peter Constantinellis.
See full article in our newsletter .

More pics - here

This is the Goulburn & District Art Society's major exhibition each and every year. This was another very successful exhibition with 74 artists submitting 275 art works. The quality of the hung works was again very high to excellent in anyone's eyes. The opening night was very well... Read more

Our art society entered a float in the Lilac Festival in October. GDAS member, Bryce Ronning kindly donated the use... Read more

AGM 2019: 14 in attendance. (Photo by Ekaterina Mortensen)

Cold day forced us to fit into the office with the heater:)

Another wonderful Taralga Art Show is over and we would just like to congratulate the winner of the People's Choice Award for the second year in a row, Michelle Peddle with Highland Dreaming. Well done Michelle!
Source: Facebook post

Artists from Camden and Canberra joined GDAS members in our new premises, The Art Studio, at the weekend for 2 days of watercolour tuition. Chan Dissananyake, master watercolourist, shared lots of tips and techniques with 14 eager students who produced 2 completed paintings each day.

We are now taking up residence in our new and permanent home - at long, long last (in the Council's Old Depot,
cnr Combermere & Bourke Sts.)

99 paintings, 8 paintings sold! See photos here

Six our members participated ASOC Summer School this year.

Our Annual Exhibition the Goulburn Workers Club Annual Art Prize - Bigger Than Ever: 323 entries, 87 artists from local, NSW, ACT, Queensland and Victoria. more...

See more photos in2018 GDAS Newsletter.

See more photos in August 2018 GDAS Newsletter.

See more photos in August 2018 GDAS Newsletter.

It has been reported that the workshop was very successful with Tracey taking the participants through the steps of producing a pastel art work. The photos display the success of her tutoring.

Many hands make light work - we hope. So... Read more...

Six of us gathered at the Artroom on Saturday 19th May for an acrylics workshop with Marion Schumacher as a follow up to a fabulous workshop last year. Read more...

A very enthusiastic, very small group made the most of the opportunity to draw our female life model - and at no cost to
anyone. more...

It is pleasing to see that our member, Stavros Papantoniou, entered and has been accepted as a finalist in the Art Award 2018. more...

Lesley Whitten, Helen De Jonge and Marion Schumacher have been preparing for quite a few months and devoted much of their time in recent weeks to finalise their art to have it ready for their joint exhibition, "Three Aspects of Australia". more...

A very enthusiastic group of eleven budding artists from Goulburn, Sydney and Canberra met at the Function Room of the Angels for the Forgotten Centre on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th March for a wonderful, informative and very busy watercolour instruction from the wonderful Chan. more...

This year we had a new venue for our Rose Festival event in the Veolia Arena, Braidwood Rd, Goulburn. There was lots of space along with excellent lighting for exhibiting artworks. Photos by Katya and Alex Mortensen - see here

Well known artist, graphic designer, lecturer of art and graphic design, GDAS member. A man who always thought young. John passed away on Wednesday, 7th February, 2018. Our sincere sympathy is extended to his wife, Penny. See the article about John by Alex Mortensen in February 2018 GDAS Newsletter

GDAS members and three guest artists from the Southern Highland welcomed the well-known Australian artist, Helen Cottle, to Goulburn on 21st and 22nd Oct to conduct the two day acrylic workshop. Eleven very privileged students were treated to two wonderful days of invaluable hints and techniques producing two very different artworks under Helen's expert instruction and guidance. Helen has a very unique style producing the most amazing works of art that are not hard to fall in love with. We all came away with beautiful artworks of our own and feeling very thankful that Helen was able to come to Goulburn and pass on her awesome talent. We all look forward to the next workshop with Helen.

Lesley, Marion and Helen have an Exhibition at the Yarralumla Gallery in Canberra starting the 29th October to the 24th of November. It will be opened by their good friend and artist, Isla Patterson. Lesley has a number of paintings in acrylic, oil and watercolour,including still life to landscape. Marion has a mixture of paintings in acrylic and oil, including Rosie the Rhino, plus some very colourful parrots. Helen is sticking to the feathers with lots of birds in watercolour.

Our exhibition was bigger than ever consisting of 320 artworks. 12 paintings were sold. Congratulations to the artists! See photos from the exhibition here.

Everyone enjoyed Nell Anderson's workshop very much. She had so much knowledge to pass on to us and I found it very interesting how she does watercolour by dropping colours in to a wet wash and not mixing on the palette; this is how she gets that translucency in her paintings.

See our Newsletter/September 2017 for article on this workshop by Glenda.

Three GDAS members attended Saggu's exhibition opening at the Goulburn Club. As expected, we were impressed with the quality of Saggu's art. His many works with a variety of subject matter not only provided a beautiful decoration to the walls of the Club but displayed Saggu's artistic talent and high level of skills in various media. On speaking with different visitors I repeatedly heard comments in regard to the high quality of his artworks. I spent some time admiring Saggu's portraits in watercolour and acrylics. Congratulations, Saggu. GDAS members will find it rewarding to visit the exhibition at the Goulburn Club up until Sunday, 5th November and you may also recommend it to others.

The Executive 2017/18: President: Helen De Jonge, Vice President: Alex Mortensen, Secretary: Lesley Whitten, Treasurer: Alan Whitten, Ass't Treasurer: Vacant, Minutes Secretary: Julia Laybutt, Ass't Minutes Secretary: Sue Maas, Publicity: Alex Mortensen, Web Master: Katya Mortensen, Workshop Co-ordinator: Helen De Jonge, Public Officer: Trish McNamara, Facebook Co-ordinator: Patricia Meuller. The Committee 2017/18: Sue Maas, Rhonda Garner, Aina Atkins, Trish McNamara, Lynne Young, Val Stacey

Aina's watercolour workshop was another well-attended and successful one. She had the honour of being the first to run a workshop in our new venue at the Angels for the Forgotten. Everyone felt it was a good place to have it and of course enjoyed Aina's tutelage. Left: Hard at work in our new room at the Angels for the Forgotten. Photo by Helen DE Jonge.

Following the well attended meeting on the 11th, most of the members present were able to take part in the moving of items such as tables, chairs, bookshelves and books from the Art Shed at the Men's Shed to the other side (the right side) of the tracks and in to our room at the Angels for the Forgotten in Sloane St just to the left of the railway station. So another new stage of our art society life has commenced and it should be a good one there. Of course we appreciate the stay that we had at the Men's Shed and the friendly contacts we made over those years and wish the Men's Shed members all the best for their future.

Ten artists including 6 members took part in this successful workshop. Under Chan's expert tutelage they produced 4 paintings. The first was a maritime scene with a small yacht out on a bay. The second was a landscape with a farm shed in the midground. The third was a paddle steamer on the Murray River and the 4th was a snow scene. In this selection, Chan has had the participants practice a number of different painting skills and all the participants must have gained considerable benefit from the weekend's work.

While holidaying in Malaysia with her family last year, Aina was asked to conduct an art workshop – hence she is now an international art tutor. Congratulations, Aina. It was a very productive workshop for the participants learning some of the basics of watercolours. Some of them hadn't done any art previously but as we can see in one of the photos, some credible art was produced. They must have felt absolutely chuffed at the results of their efforts.

The two day watercolour workshop was a wonderful experience. Chan is a very generous and skillful artist whose style appeals to me. This is my second workshop with him and I continued enjoying painting and learning from him. Chan brought several pieces of equipment to enrich his demonstration by showing on wide screen TV the action of painting and mixing colours and projecting the original photograph on another screen. During the two full days - 9am to 5pm - we painted three ¼ watercolour sheet and one 1/2 sheet paintings. There were many explanations of the painting processes. One exercise was to paint human figures in perspective. ... The most important things I learned this time were: do not paint the illustration or exact photograph, do paint for yourself, work with suggestions but not exact copy of the objects, try to make watercolours paint for you. It's usually the most successful part - the importance of the brushmarks...

I daresay most of our members would not know that Rhonda is an accomplished artist who has used very different skills and worked in a media we may have never thought of using. We can safely say that Rhonda was an acclaimed artist in her field as far back as the 1980s. A Japanese company, C. I. Toh, purchased 19 of her works to present to Russian wool buyers in 1988. Even earlier, back in 1982, Goulburn Council commissioned Rhonda to produce some 300 brooches. I think we would all be absolutely pleased if we had such sales and commissions and probably most of us will never have such success although we may well be inspired to try to emulate it...
Full text of the article GDAS Newsletter September 2016