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Date – Sunday 6 May 2018
Time – 1:30pm to 4:00 pm

Venue – Coldstream Community Centre, Kelso Street, Coldstream – Melways Map 281 B10

Demonstration – The demonstrator this month will be Cherry Manders, who will show us how to work with oils and acrylics in a contempoary style.

Cherry describes herself as “a contemporary impressionist, who works with oil on canvas capturing figure, landscape and still life.”

Her passion is for colour and movement.  Cherry’s rural river environment and the flowers from her rambling bushland garden often feature in her work.  Her passion for colour is reflected in her still life studies, landscapes and figure studies.  Her use of natural light, including in her studio, is reflected in her vibrant canvases.  Plein air landscape means she is often to be seen battling the elements.

Cherry’s portraits, still life studies and landscapes have won numerous awards in recent years.  Her works can be found in private collections across Australia, in the United States and in the United Kingdom.

This promises to be another outstanding demonstration for both beginners and more experienced artists.

Entry Fees – Members – $6 Visitors – $10

Date – Sunday 4 March 2018
Time – 1:30pm to 4:00 pm
Venue – Coldstream Community Centre, Kelso Street, Coldstream – Melways Map 281 B10

Demonstration – As this will be our Annual General Meeting, there will not be a demonstration.

Annual General Meeting – At the Annual General Meeting, reports will be given on our activities for the last 12 months, and the office-bearers and committee elected.

Entry Fees – Members – $6 Visitors – $7 (First meeting free)

Date – Sunday 4 February 2018
Time – 1:30pm to 4:00 pm

Venue – Coldstream Community Centre, Kelso Street, Coldstream – Melways Map 281 B10

Demonstration – The demonstrator this month will be Pamela Gordon. The technique Pamela will demonstrate is inks on ampersand board, with pastel drawing over the top. This will build on the demonstation in November last year by Lynette Orzlowski, with Pamela developing her own unique techniques.

As well as being a member of the Society, Pamela is a regular exhibitor in the Yarra Valley Open Studios.

This promises to be a very interesting demonstration to start the year.

Entry Fees – Members – $6 Visitors – $10

Date – Sunday 5 November 2017
Time – 1:30pm to 4:00 pm
Venue – Coldstream Community Centre, Kelso Street, Coldstream – Melways Map 281 B10

Demonstration – This month’s demonstrator will be Lynette Orzlowski, who will be showing us a range of Canson products.
Canson is one of the world’s leading suppliers of art products. As it states on the company’s website:

“Since it was founded in 1557, Canson® has always been close to artists of all ages, beginners or professionals, unknown or famous, but all with a passion for art…”

It is some time since we had a product demonstration, so Lynette is sure to share some fresh ideas on recent developments.
This will be the last demonstration for the year.

Entry Fees – Members – $6 Visitors – $10

Date – Sunday 1 October 2017
Time – 1:30pm to 4:00 pm
Venue – Coldstream Community Centre, Kelso Street, Coldstream – Melways Map 281 B10

Demonstration – This month’s demonstrator will be Christine Cafarella-Pearce, who will be showing us some of her oil painting techniques.

Christine, a local artist from Healesville, paints with a distinctive technique, pallet and sense of design. Inspired by The Heidelberg School and the French Impressionists, Christine enjoys artistic challenges and new projects are a necessary part of her artistic development.

Of her love of painting, Christine says:

“For as long as I can remember I have wanted to travel the Australian outback. I have been very blessed and have fulfilled the dream. What a joy to see firsthand, the diversity and majesty of our incredible country. Our landscape and our iconic attractions blew me away. To see them for “real” it confirmed for me that photos could not be a substitute for reality. I saw wonderful beauty everywhere I looked. Each day revealed its own special delights and encounters and these I will cherish forever. Looking at the experience through the eyes of an artist I am convinced that it doesn’t matter what part of Australia I decide to paint, my slant on the experience will add the final key dimension to the experience.”

A past winner at the Yarra Glen Art Show, Christine is passionate about supporting her local art community in many different ways. She has been an art mentor at Healesville Primary School and donates time to support workshops for students at local primary schools.

Currently Christine is experimenting with a watercolour technique using acrylic paint and stabilizer mediums to create some unique “bird in flight” paintings and intriguing landscape interpretations.

Christine’s demonstration is sure to inspire artists to experiment with new techniques, no matter what their style, preferred genre or ability.

Entry Fees – Members – $6 Visitors – $10

Date – Sunday 10 September 2017 (as Fathers’ Day is on 3 September)
Time – 1:30pm to 4:00 pm
Venue – Coldstream Community Centre, Kelso Street, Coldstream – Melways Map 281 B10

Demonstration – The demonstrator for this month will be Season Heise, who will be focussing on some further acrylic techniques.

Season is well-known to members, having recently served as President of the Society.

She is one of the many artists who live in the Yarra Valley.

Season is a painter whose long immersion in the world of French painting has yielded an oeuvre of fashionable and decorative images of modern Australian life. Her debt to the French Fauvists, particularly to Raoul Dufy, is apparent, for within her works one can draw parallels to Dufy’s Bouquet de tulips et anemones or to the Feuillages et Perroquets and especially to Le bouquet de lys.

The impressionist landscape painters, Claude Monet and Camille Pissaro have also influenced her profoundly. Her style also reflects the Classical Japanese wood prints which became popular in art circles in Paris at the end of the nineteenth century.

As you would expect from such a committed painter, Season has developed her own distinctive approach to floral arrangements with such innovations as foreshortened perspective and the use of washes of colour.
The brightness of Season’s palette envelops objects in atmosphere. She paints with colour and movement. She is a master of depicting a calm grandeur, an extraordinary unity, a subdued radiance. Her intimate studies are sympathetic, elegant and trendsetting.

It is little wonder that Season’s French influence is substantial. Her ancestry on her mother’s side goes back to the Filluel’s from Rouen in Normandy. Durand Filluel, an ancestor in the thirteenth century was the Mairie in Normandy. Season Filluel’s scrapbook is held by the Societe Jersiaise and the Societe des Antiqiaires de Normandie. Interestingly, her favourite French painter, Raoul Dufy also lived and painted in Normandy.

The Musee Saint Gregorie at Cordes-sur-Ciel is pleased to be associated with Season, whose dazzling works continue to fill collections the world over.

One of Season’s most recent awards was a Highly Commended at the 2017 Camberwell Art Show.

Season’s demonstration is sure to inspire artists to experiment with new techniques, no matter what their interests or ability.

Entry Fees – Members – $6 Visitors – $10