Timeline
2016
Watercolour workshop with Chan Dissanayake
13-14 August 2016 | By Katya Mortensen
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...
Rhonda Garner: a member with Unusual Skills
September 2016 | By Alex Mortensen
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
From the Archives
1904
First Annual Exhibition
Goulburn Evening Penny Post, Saturday 19 November 1904, page 3
"First Annual Exhibition, November 22-26, 3-5.30pm daily. Thirty pictures by Sydney artists, thirty pictures by local artists. Publicly opened by the Mayor (W. R. Costley Esq.) London Bank Chambers, Auburn St."
Source:www.trove.nla.gov.au
Image source: Ziegler, O.I. 1946. Goulburn - Queen City of South.
1904
First Meeting place of Art Society of Goulburn
Goulburn Herald Friday 3 June 1904, p2 | Photo: Pinterest by Sammy Leigh Interior Design
"A meeting of persons favourable
to the formation of an art society
in Goulburn was held at the Town
Hall yesterday afternoon. The
mayor presided and there were
present about 20 persons.
The chairman, after explaining
the objects of the meeting, called
on Archdeacon Bartlett to move
the first resolution.
Archdeacon Bartlett said he came there to see whether he could do
anything in the way of a Phillistine, and he hoped they would not
consider it cheek on his part as he could not paint a haystack to save
his life. But he could tell a good picture from a bad one, and he hoped
he would be excused for what he was going to say now regarding the
pictures he had seen in Goulburn..."
Full text at
www.trove.nla.gov.au
1897
First Art Classes in Islington House
Photo from Photograph Town and Country Journal, 1899 courtesy of Goulburn Historic
Society
"First organised art classes in Goulburn were commenced above Foxall's Music Warehouse in Auburn St, opposite Belmore Park in 1897 - the beginnings of forming our Art Society in Goulburn." Newsletter April 2019