Art in the Country
Upcoming Workshops
Details on our next workshops for 2026 will be advised very soon.
Our Recent Workshops
Watercolour Workshop with Jenny Macnaughton
ABOUT JENNY
Jenny Macnaughton was born in Sydney and attended East Sydney Technical College in a course of survey drafting and worked for some years as a tracer-draughtswoman. She has been actively painting in oils since 1971 and diversified to watercolours in 1981. She attended Willandra Art School for tuition in watercolours.
She is an exhibiting member of the Royal Art Society of NSW, The Watercolour Society of Victoria and is active in the arts community of Mudgee.
Jenny is a much sought after tutor for workshops and has been teaching for over forty years.
Jenny exhibits her work throughout Australia and has gained many awards with the latest being a Highly Commended at the Sydney Royal Easter Show 2024. Her many exhibitions have been in Canberra, Sydney, Newcastle, Melbourne, Rockhampton, Dorrigo and Inverell.
She has written two books, “Capturing Australian Light in Watercolour’ and ‘Watercolour Flowers, Fast, Fresh and Free” and regularly contributed articles to Australian Artist Magazine and Artists Palette.
Watercolour Workshop with Jacky Pearson
Our recent four day watercolour workshop with Jacky Pearson was much enjoyed by all those who attended.
They appreciated Jacky’s expertise in demonstrating her watercolour painting techniques.
Oil Plein Air Workshop with John Rice
Our workshop with John Rice finished on the 2nd November. It was a very enjoyable 4 days at Kandos in the great outdoors during lovely spring weather.
The attendees gained knowledge of John’s oil painting techniques capturing the beautiful surroundings in the Central Tablelands of NSW.
We hope we can welcome John back for further workshops next year.
ABOUT JOHN RICE
John is an energetic outdoor painter who works almost exclusively in oils and is stimulated by the strong light of the Australian landscape. He is particularly enthusiastic about the districts from the Blue Mountains to Mudgee in The Central West artistically. He enjoys painting the landscape from life, “en plein air”, and engages in regular painting trips to country locations. John lives in the village of Mulgoa on the western fringes of Sydney, providing a lot for an artist to digest both aesthetically and culturally as a central location for the Hawkesbury, Blue Mountains and Sydney.
John has won many awards for his artworks and has held nineteen very successful solo exhibitions and numerous joint exhibitions. He has works in private collections throughout Australia and abroad and is a Fellow of the Royal Art Society. John has almost forty years teaching experience and is regularly called upon to conduct workshops and demonstrations for art societies and judge exhibitions.