Demonstrations
Upcoming Demos - for any further information please contact: Helga Kelly 0412320793
July 17
Hiren Patel
Born in India, now based in Sydney, Hiren depicts emotionally charged urban and rural landscapes saturated with light and atmosphere. Highly influenced by Australian impressionists and modern painters, Hiren’s recent urban vistas are intensely personal renditions of the places he wandered in Australia and India, utilising field sketches, photographs and memory he transforms everyday mundane subjects into visual poetries by richly layering colours and instinctive paint application. Emphasising his painting process, Hiren initiates each painting with idea of light and mood; he develops composition by exploiting various characteristics of oil paint medium for mark making. Through constantly searching, finding and destroying the forms, colours and edges Hiren discovers painterly visions. Hiren is Associate of Royal Art Society and has been winner of many juried show and awarded multiple first prizes such as Lloyd Rees, Joshua Smith and best in categories in recent years in Sydney.
Demonstration Overview
Title: At the Harbour
- creating design and composition for representational painting.
- Creating expressive painting using bold brushwork
- Importance of Under-painting, and beginning of painting
- keeping the colours clean
- Creating depth in painting by intensifying the basic elements of painting
TONE/TEXTURE/SHAPE/COLOUR/EDGES and various tools for oil painting.
- Painting quick and loose
- How to observe, create, choose various elements such as buildings, harbour water, Sydney ferry,
Hiren Patel
Born in India, now based in Sydney, Hiren depicts emotionally charged urban and rural landscapes saturated with light and atmosphere. Highly influenced by Australian impressionists and modern painters, Hiren’s recent urban vistas are intensely personal renditions of the places he wandered in Australia and India, utilising field sketches, photographs and memory he transforms everyday mundane subjects into visual poetries by richly layering colours and instinctive paint application. Emphasising his painting process, Hiren initiates each painting with idea of light and mood; he develops composition by exploiting various characteristics of oil paint medium for mark making. Through constantly searching, finding and destroying the forms, colours and edges Hiren discovers painterly visions. Hiren is Associate of Royal Art Society and has been winner of many juried show and awarded multiple first prizes such as Lloyd Rees, Joshua Smith and best in categories in recent years in Sydney.
Demonstration Overview
Title: At the Harbour
- creating design and composition for representational painting.
- Creating expressive painting using bold brushwork
- Importance of Under-painting, and beginning of painting
- keeping the colours clean
- Creating depth in painting by intensifying the basic elements of painting
TONE/TEXTURE/SHAPE/COLOUR/EDGES and various tools for oil painting.
- Painting quick and loose
- How to observe, create, choose various elements such as buildings, harbour water, Sydney ferry,
The Parramatta Art Society offers regular demonstrations by local artists in a range of subjects and media.
Unless indicated demonstrations are held in the Society's Studio at 6 / 4 - 14, Hunter Street, Parramatta,
on the third Saturday of the month from 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm
The price to attend the demo is $ 10 and includes a light afternoon tea
Any queries contact the Secretary-Trish Keating 0410603023 -
We have a new email address: cpas@parramattaartsociety.org
Unless indicated demonstrations are held in the Society's Studio at 6 / 4 - 14, Hunter Street, Parramatta,
on the third Saturday of the month from 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm
The price to attend the demo is $ 10 and includes a light afternoon tea
Any queries contact the Secretary-Trish Keating 0410603023 -
We have a new email address: cpas@parramattaartsociety.org
