Watercolour on Yupo Paper and Clayboard

Name: Watercolour on Yupo Paper and Clayboard
Start: 2023-07-28T09:00:00+1000
End: 2023-07-28T13:00:00+1000
Location: Libby Derham Art - Studio and Workshop Space

Fri, 28 Jul 2023, 9am - 1pm AEST

Libby Derham Art - Studio and Workshop Space

Coolum Beach QLD, Australia

Libby Derham

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Join award-winning artist, Libby Derham in her Coolum studio, where she will introduce you to the wonderful surface of Clayboard. This surface offers exciting possibilities for working with watercolour without the need for glass framing. Unlike any other substrate, 'Ampersand Claybord' is super smooth and works beautifully with the transparent medium of watercolour. In this workshop you will use Yupo paper as the closest surface, to experiment and practice working on. Then, using your panel of Clayboard, you will work to create a finished piece.

All materials are supplied. Please wear old clothes or bring an apron. BYO morning tea.

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An appreciation for the natural world informs Libby Derham's practice. The work seeks to capture her sensory experience within it and the immersive qualities of plein air. Libby transcribes birdsong to line and captures peaceful yet rich encounters with the natural world, she creates loose and expressive contemporary landscape and flora paintings in watercolour and ink.

An award-winning artist, Libby is a fourth-generation water-colourist, passionate at pushing the medium into the contemporary space. She won the Annie Tan Memorial Watercolour Award - Queensland Regional Art Awards (2021) and has been a finalist in multiple local and international awards including Fabriano In Acquarello (2024), Splash: McClelland Contemporary Watercolour Award (2021), QAA (2020), Local Artist Local Content (2022/2021/2020) and Du Ritz Art Awards (2021/2020). Further career highlights have included being recipient of Sunshine Coast Arts Foundation 'Gifted Program' and involvement in Sunshine Coast Council's project 'The Keeper'. She completed art training at Surrey Institute of Art and Design in the UK (1996-1998), before migrating to Australia in 2000 where she studied Teaching and Visual Art at Monash University (2000-2004). Libby has been a full-time artist since 2021.

Libby’s long experience in arts education has provided a solid foundation to support students of all ages and abilities, she teaches workshops and classes at her studio in Palmwoods along with facilitating workshops in partnerships with organisations and art groups across the state.