Paint the Feeling Workshop with Leona DeBolt

Saturday 18 October 2025

11am - 1.30pm | Grafton Regional Gallery

Cost: $35 + booking fee
FoGG Member: $30 + booking fee

Join exhibiting artist, Leona DeBolt, for Paint the Feeling, an intuitive painting workshop that invites you to let go of perfection and connect with emotion through colour, gesture, and play. Guided by the belief that feeling is more important than form, this workshop encourages participants to move beyond traditional techniques and instead trust their instincts. This isn’t about getting it right, it’s about being honest, brave, and curious.

Leona's solo exhibition Ken Done is My Dolly Parton, is showing at Grafton Regional Gallery until late September. Leona DeBolt both admires and is inspired by Ken Done, the way many fans worship cultural icon Dolly Parton. While in residency at Grafton Regional Gallery, DeBolt studied the Ken Done works held in the Gallery’s collection, and went on to spend time with Done in his Sydney studio. Beginning as a love letter to her art idol, this exhibition quickly became an immersion in the complexities of influence and creative identity.

The paintings in Ken Done Is My Dolly Parton represent a turning point in DeBolt’s practice. They carry the tension between reverence and risk, and looking up to someone while standing on your own. What started in admiration has led to a clearer sense of direction, one that’s still unfolding but feels unmistakably the artist’s own.

*Cancellation policy: If ticketholder cancels prior to the workshop, the Gallery will retain 25% of the ticket price as an administration fee*

Grafton Regional Gallery is wheelchair & mobility aid accessible

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Image: Courtesy of Leona DeBolt.