Art in the Country
Upcoming Workshops
Watercolour Workshop with Jenny Macnaughton
Another four day plein-air workshop tutored by Jenny Mcnaughton is now scheduled to be held in Kandos from the 20th to 23rd November, 2025.
Painting will be outdoors if weather permits or in the well set-up studio. Jenny will guide you through many watercolour techniques enabling you to capture the beautiful surroundings in Central Tablelands of New South Wales.
Bookings are STILL AVAILABLE for this Workshop.
But you’ll need to be QUICK if you want to join us for another great workshop with JENNY.
Email combinedsocieties@yahoo.com.au to book this workshop.
List of materials required will be provided once your booking is submitted.
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 City of Ryde Art Society, The Drummoyne Municipal Art Society and the Bellingen Art Group
Currently, Jenny holds Workshops for adults at her home studio in Megan and in her gallery in Dorrigo. She is a popular demonstrator for art societies, has tutored for the Mitchell School of Arts at Bathurst, Murrumbidgee School of Creative Arts in Wagga Wagga and at the Grafton Artsfest, and will be tutoring at Camp Creative in Bellingen in January and Grafton Artsfest in April 2010.
Jenny has held many exhibitions in Canberra, Sydney, Newcastle, Rockhampton, Inverell and Dorrigo and has released two books: “Capturing the Australian Light in Watercolour” and “Watercolour Flowers Fast Fresh & Free”. In 2006, Jenny released her first DVD, featuring a series of watercolour tutorials. It is titled: Jenny Macnaughton Paints Watercolour – Australian Country Cottages. There is now a second DVD called “The Old Bush Shack”
Watercolour Workshop with Jacky Pearson
We’re pleased to announce we have another four day watercolour workshop scheduled in October with Jacky Pearson.
Great location for out door painting with a highly skilled tutor who will demonstrate her watercolour painting techniques.
THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULLY BOOKED
Oil Plein Air Workshop with John Rice
A four day plein air workshop tutored by John Rice from the 30th October to 2nd November 2025.
Enjoy the great outdoors in the lovely spring weather and learn oil painting techniques to capture the beautiful surroundings in Central Tablelands of NSW.
THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULLY BOOKED
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.