2 Day Pastel Workshop for artists with at least some pastel experience

Soft Pastels - Discover the Art of Shadows in the Landscape with Caroline Reid
Ever struggled with shadows in your landscape paintings? This workshop is designed to build both understanding and technique in rendering convincing, expressive shadows using soft pastels.

Shadows play a vital role in landscape art — they ground the image, create depth and perspective, and define the form and structure of the land. More than that, they carry the emotional tone of a scene, helping to reveal the story the artist wants to tell.
Over two days, we’ll explore the theory of light and the different types of shadows as they relate to artistic practice. Through demonstration and guided exercises, you’ll learn how to apply these principles in pastel — developing a luminous summer landscape using layering and underpainting techniques.
By the end of the weekend, students will have gained both a scientific and artistic understanding of how shadows bring light, atmosphere, and meaning to the landscape.

Course Overview:
Learn how to make your landscapes come alive through the power of light and shadow. Discover how shadows ground a scene, create depth and perspective, and reveal the story within the land.

Over two days, explore the theory of light and practise layering and underpainting techniques to create your own luminous summer pastel filled with atmosphere and movement. Over the two days we expect to create two landscapes with shadows.

🎨 Join us in this summer workshop — for intermediate level artists with their own pastel set!

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Who should enrol?

This course is suitable for all artist who have some level of experience in using soft pastels

About the Tutor:

Caroline Reid is a contemporary landscape artist who lives and works in Canberra, on Ngunnawal country, a rugged semi-alpine area hemmed in by mountain ranges to the west and east, and the Snowy Mountains to the south. Although a practising artist all her life, her career in science and industry policy left little time for a professional art career until she experienced career burnout. She turned to plein air painting at first as a means to recover physically and psychologically from an intensity of care for the natural world that left her overwhelmed with grief.
Caroline is most passionate about painting the Snowy Mountains, Kosciusko National Park and the wilderness areas of the Namadji National Park near her home. The flow of water as a life-giving resource is a source of understanding of the landscapes she paints.
Her art is now in a number of private collections. She has received numerous art awards including the 2022 USA Boldbrush Abstract Painting Award. Her art has been shown in many solo and group exhibitions.
Caroline completed an artist residency at Venezia Contemporaine in Venice in October 2022 and the Chateau Orquevaux residency in France in May 2023. She recently completed a 6-week residency in Kavala, Greece, in late 2024.
Caroline exhibited her Venice residency paintings at the Brick Lane Gallery, London, in June 2023.
Caroline is a winner in the 2024 Artavita online competition SEE HERE and was a finalist in the 13th ‘All Women’ show at Light Space Time Gallery
She has recently been long-form interviewed for a glossy art magazine article here: and has been interviewed on Australian radio arts programs several times.
Caroline has recently been featured in Contemporary Art Curator Magazine. https://www.contemporaryartcuratormagazine.com/online-exhibition-parallel-worlds/caroline-reid