Guest Artist Demonstrations
Guest artist demonstrations are held on Saturday afternoons at the Guild studio once a month (usually the first Saturday with one or two exceptions) except in January & December. Members and the general public are welcome, and can be sure of an engrossing demonstration by a professional artist at work. The entry fee of $10.00 for members and $12 for non-members includes a delicious afternoon tea. Demonstrations run from 1:30pm to approx. 3:30pm.
2025 Artist demonstrations - 1st Saturday of the month
NEXT ARTIST DEMONSTRATION
"LANDSCAPE IN OIL" with BEN WINSPEAR
Saturday 5th April from 1.30pm - 3.30pm
Ben Winspear is a Melbourne based artist who works in both oil and watercolour. his work encapsulates a very wide range of subject matter; anything that inspires him at the time. his painting often runs the full spectrum from purely representational through to abstraction - as he seeks to develop a synthesis of both in his own unique and personal visual language to describe the world around him. his two loves though are the portrait / figure and the Australian landscape and regularly paints both from life, often painting from the back of his car en route to teach classes or a workshop. Passing on his knowledge to those who attend his classes and workshops is Ben’s other passion. he seeks to ground students solidly in the traditions of observational drawing and painting with an informed use of quality materials. he has been painting professionally for over fifteen years and has held several successful solo and joint exhibitions and been involved in numerous arts projects in the education field. Ben is also a multi-award winner including winning the Castlemaine James Farrell Self Portrait Prize, the A.M.e. Bale travelling Scholarship and Art Prize, and was nominated the 2016 Victorian Artist Society Artist of the year.
Cost $10.00 members and $12.00 non-members (including afternoon tea).
(MGoA Members Artist of the Month theme - "Landscape" in any medium)
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"Artist of the Month" Competition
This is also an opportunity for members to enter their art work each month for judging by the visiting guest artist demonstrator. See “Artist of the Year Award”. Members are encouraged to participate in the Competition by exhibiting their own art work in the Guild studio on demonstration days. The subject should relate to the theme specified for that month’s demonstration, listed above and in the Guild’s bi-monthly newsletter, Palette News. The medium, however is open, in order to encourage maximum member participation. Entries are judged by the guest artist, and points awarded that ultimately determine the prize winner of the Guild’s Artist of the Year competition.
