Teen & Adult Workshop: Capturing the Beauty of Natural Landscapes in Pure Watercolour with Martin Necas (Workshop Code MNWC01)

Name: Teen & Adult Workshop: Capturing the Beauty of Natural Landscapes in Pure Watercolour with Martin Necas (Workshop Code MNWC01)
Start: 2025-03-22T13:00:00+1300
End: 2025-03-22T16:00:00+1300
Location: Ōtorohanga Museum

Sat, 22 Mar, 1pm - 4pm NZDT

Ōtorohanga Museum

Otorohanga, New Zealand

Ōtorohanga Creative Conduit

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Teen/Adult Workshop: Capturing the Beauty of Natural Landscapes in Pure Watercolour

Join Martin Necas for a workshop in ‘fast and loose’, watercolour and learn the secrets of creating beautiful, expressive, captivating and visually rich watercolour paintings with a minimum of time and effort. The workshop is suitable for all skill levels from beginners to accomplished watercolour artists. You will be amazed at what you can accomplish.

Martin is a Hamilton-based watercolour artist. He gravitates toward bold and expressive impressionist natural landscapes that capture the raw beauty of New Zealand in its grandeur, wonder, mystery and beauty. Martin’s painting style is characterised by confident brush-strokes and high-intensity colour palettes.

Martin has run numerous popular watercolour workshops (approximately 6 per year) across the North Island with excellent feedback. His aim is not only to educate participants but to inspire them.

"Amazing class, I loved every bit of it and I’m so glad I have some work to take home and put on the wall - that actually looks better than I thought it was going to, is quite satisfying " - First time watercolour painter

BYO snacks and drink bottle. A materials list will be supplied after booking.

Workshop is $69 per person (+ booking fee of $2.75) - Running 1-4pm Saturday 22nd March. Doors open at 12:45 for a 1pm start. Workshop will take place at the Ōtorohanga Museum, 15 Kakamutu Street, Ōtorohanga.

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Bringing creativity to our community via creative workshops, holiday workshops and special events, any profits made go back into subsidising future workshops. So support this local project by signing up to a workshop, liking/following the Ōtorohanga Creative Conduit Facebook page where you can tag/comment/share workshop posts or follow this host page to be notified about future workshops.

We are currently running workshops at either the Ōtorohanga Museum, 15 Kakamutu Road, Ōtorohanga or the Referee Rooms at the end of Rangipere Street Ōtorohanga.

In 2023 the Waipa Creative Conduit was piloted for 3 months in Te Awamutu, this lead to the formation of the Ōtorohanga Creative Conduit (ŌCC) which was established in 2024 and had a successful year operating under the umbrella of the Ōtorohanga District Development Board/Elevate until October 2024.

During that time the Ōtorohanga Creative Conduit offered 13 kids workshops including 2 clay workshops, tee printing, abstract art, creating a secret money box, led jar, watercolour artworks, felt tip creations, collage, silhouette art etc.

We ran 13 Adult/Teen classes ranging from 3 hours to 8 weeks. Workshops offered included photography, mahi raranga Maori weaving, pastel art, clay/pottery x 3, abstract art, movement therapy in Spanish, Tai Chi & art, vision boarding, drawing, pressed flowers, animation and life drawing.

Now in 2025 and going forward, the Ōtorohanga Creative Conduit is continuing to bring creativity to the community via workshops, events and exhibitions as a non-profit organization still run by Ōtorohanga artist and teacher, Rebecca Dowman-Ngapo.

The kaupapa of the Ōtorohanga Creative Conduit is to connect communities together, specifically the creative community with the larger community to build constructive relationships for creative people and create pathways to creativity for the community.

We believe creatives should be paid fairly for their skills so the workshops are priced to cover their hours, materials and venue and any extra made is then put back into the kete to reduce the costs of future workshops, to provide free places in some workshops or to put on free events for the community

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Aroha nui

Rebecca - Creative Coordinator - Ōtorohanga Creative Conduit