ART WORKSHOPS

2025

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WORKSHOPS IN JUNE

‘WILD GARDEN’

Watercolour and ink Painting Workshop & Botanical Collage Workshop

Wattle painting by Lesley Kendall & Wendy in the ‘Plants in ink’ workshop

’WILD GARDEN’

Paten Park Native Plant Nursery

PAINTING WITH WATERCOLOUR AND INK

Explore your creativity and learn about beautiful Australian native plants from the friendly and helpful nursery staff.

Drawing  inspiration from a wide selection of native plants we will explore painting with watercolours and inks. I will guide you showing you techniques I use in my own work.

Small class. Beginners are welcome.


SUNDAY, 22 JUNE,2025

9.30 am - 12 noon (2 1/2 hours)

There is 1 space open

$85.00 - includes art materials, tea and cake
Paten Park Nursery, 57 Paten Road, The Gap

BOOKINGS: Please press on the link below . If you have any problems please email me from the ‘çontact’ page of the website

Grevillea by Evie, Callistemon by Maureen, Grevillea by Emma - Paper collages made in the ‘Bush Flower ‘ workshop in May

’WILD GARDEN’

Paten Park Native Plant Nursery

BOTANICAL COLLAGE

with paper, watercolour and ink

Celebrate the Winter Solstice today surrounded by plants.

Explore your creativity and learn about Australian native plants from the friendly and helpful nursery staff. .

 Drawing  inspiration from a wide selection of native plants we will explore making botanical collages using paper, watercolour and ink . I will guide you showing you techniques I use in my own work.

Everyone made beautiful paper botanicals in the ‘Bush Flowers’ workshop last month. Looking forward to seeing what this class makes.

Each class is small and friendly. Beginners are welcome.


SATURDAY, 21 JUNE

10.00 am - 1.30pm (3 1/2 hours)

There are 3 spaces open

$85.00 - includes art materials, tea and cake
Paten Park Nursery, 57 Paten Road, The Gap

BOOKINGS: Please press on the link below. If you have any problems with booking please email me from the ‘çontact’ page of the website.

paper flowers on either side of Violet made by participants in the workshop.

Paper Callistemon created by Maureen and Paper Hoya by Jen

‘BUSH FLOWERS’

Paten Park Native Plant Nursery

BOTANICAL COLLAGE

Painting with paper

Spend time at the nursery exploring your creativity and learning about beautiful Australian native plants. 

We will be creating botanical collages of native flowers working with watercolours ,inks, paper, scissors and glue. I will guide you showing you techniques I use in my own work.

Each class is small. Beginners are welcome.


SATURDAY, 10 MAY

10.00 am - 1.00pm (3 hours)

or

SUNDAY, 11 MAY

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF SUNDAY TIMES*
9.30 am -12.30 pm (3 hours) 

$85.00 - includes art materials, tea and cake
Paten Park Nursery, 57 Paten Road, The Gap

BOOKINGS: Please press on the links below or go to the 'workshop' page on my website lesleykendall.com

Examples of botanical collage using paper - Lesley Kendall and purple fruit created by Nyah in the workshop

Paten Park Native Plant Nursery
ART WORKSHOP

‘PLANTS and BUTTERFLIES’

SATURDAY, 22 MARCH, 2025

and

SUNDAY 23, MARCH,2025

Spend time at Paten Park Native Nursery painting and learning about Australian native plants.

Local artist, Lesley Kendall, will guide you through a series of easy exercises with watercolour and ink showing techniques she uses in her own work. You will then get to do your own drawings and paintings with Lesley’s guidance.

The class is small and limited to 8 people.  Beginners are welcome to come along.

A volunteer from the nursery will talk to us about butterflies and their host native plants in our gardens - this will be the inspiration for our workshop.

SATURDAY Morning Session 9.30 am – 12 noon (class is FULL)

SATURDAY Afternoon Session 1 p.m. - 3.30p.m (class is FULL)

SUNDAY Morning Session 10a.m - 12.30p.m (class is FULL)

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$85.00 – includes art materials and tea and cake
Paten Park Native Nursery, 57 Paten Road, The Gap, Brisbane

Please wear old clothes or bring an apron. 
We will be sitting around the big table where the volunteers meet . It is a covered area but it is open to the nursery so please bring along something warm to wear, in case its cool. It is lovely to look out onto all the plants. If it is raining we can move inside.

Paten Park Native Nursery is a not-for-profit community nursery located in the Gap, Brisbane. It stocks over 50 000 native plants. It is a tranquil, natural hide-away where informed volunteers can provide technical advice about South East Queensland native vegetation. website: ppnn.org.au

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