Council is offering an exclusive range of art classes for adults in April and May 2025.

Learn new skills or improve your current talents from printing to landscapes and watercolours. Each class is guided by an expert in the field.

Exploring your artistic nature is a wonderful way to improve brain power and capacity. What better way to do this but with an expert in a fun, small class environment.

From beginners to well-practiced artists, all are welcome to joy our fascinating art classes.

Be quick as classes are filling up.  

Schedule:
Class:      Cyanotype Printing with Bella La Spina
Dates:     4 & 11 April 2025 
Time:     10.30am to 1.30pm each day
Location:    Avalon Creative Space
32 Old Barrenjoey Road, Avalon
Price:     $150 per person

Join contemporary printmaker Bella La Spina for a two-part workshop exploring cyanotypes - camera-less photographic printmaking.

Cyanotype uses sunlight to create images with botanicals and photo negatives on paper and fabric.

Masterclass 2025:    Plein air drawing with Noel Thurgate
Dates:             28 April        
Time:            10am to 3pm
Location:            Manly Art Gallery & Museum
1A West Esplanade, Manly NSW 2095
Price:            $185 per person

For our 2025 Masterclass series three contemporary artists will each present a session interpreting the harbour foreshore landscape in the outdoors.

Join Noel Thurgate for a one-day workshop that will offer unique insights from the artist as he shares his knowledge, skills and different approaches to seeing and perceiving the landscape.

Class:      Travel sketching in Watercolour with Tanya Baily 
Dates:     29 & 30 May 2025 
Time:     10.30am to 1.30pm each day
Location:    Avalon Creative Space
32 Old Barrenjoey Road, Avalon
Price:     $150 per person

Join contemporary watercolour artist, Tanya Baily for 2 fun and fast sessions, giving you the tools and confidence to record your travel memories with watercolour. Learn to capture light, mood and the essence of a subject in a minimum of time.

Art classes for children are also available with details on our website.

For more information visit our website