Workshop: Two ways with watercolour with Leah Bullen

Join contemporary artist, Leah Bullen in this 3-hr workshop and discover two approaches to watercolour - direct watercolour painting (including traditional watercolour effects and colour mixing) and watercolour monotypes.

Monotypes are a hybrid process that combines the techniques and materials of drawing, printing and painting. The images are created by drawing or painting with water-based media onto a smooth surface. This image is then transferred to paper using a press. Unlike other printmaking techniques the resulting image is a 'one off' that cannot be repeated. Participants will prepare a plate, build an image with watercolour and run the plate through the press to create a print.

Leah Bullen will be exhibiting as part of our exhibition, The Water Understands, 13 Dec 2024 – 16 Feb 2025.

No prior painting or printmaking experience necessary and all materials are included. Please bring your own refreshments and apron.

About Leah Bullen

Leah Bullen’s painting practice is centred around the representation and mediation of the natural world. Bullen has worked extensively in arts education as a lecturer at the ANU School of Art & Design in the Painting Workshop and currently facilitates public art programs at NERAM (New England Regional Art Museum) in Armidale. She has been a finalist in many art prizes including the Wynne Prize and was the winner of the Stanthorpe Art Prize and the Pring Memorial Prize (Wynne Prize) in 2021, and the Trustees’ Watercolour Prize (Wynne Prize) in 2016.