Introduction to En Plein Air: Painting in the landscape

As a part of the RQAS Workshop Festival, we invite you to learn more about en plein air painting with Richard Blundell. 

Plein air painting traditions give significant opportunity for visual, physical and conceptual responses to all that is observable. The environs of Petrie Terrace provide unique opportunities to explore questions of landscape and tangible cultural heritage using practical working methods of painting in the outdoors directly from life in oil paints.

The workshop’s practical working methods encourage an efficient and managed approach to picture making. In response to significant visual forms of the Petrie Terrace, the en plein air painting tradition provides a platform for artists to address ideas about: the physical observable world; issues of culture, folklore, traditions, visual language, local knowledge; and the development of visual thinking.

This workshop will be directed at the needs of participants with no prior knowledge of either painting, en plein air techniques or the use of oil paints while participants will prior painting experience will be encouraged to build upon their existing creative practices. This workshop will foster technical and conceptual understandings. Participants will be encouraged to respond to important links between the tangible visual experience of Petrie Terrace (including cultural heritage) to meet their own artistic goals.

When: Saturday, 12th of April, 9am to 2pm

Ticket price: $100 per session

Materials: All art materials will be provided by the tutor

Location: Meet at Petrie Terrace Gallery. Workshop will be held in Hardgrave Park (across Petrie Terrace from the Gallery). Wet weather plan will be advised if necessary.

Make sure to purchase tickets soon as spaces are limited!