Transformative drawing workshops that enable students to connect with nature through drawing.
Kinship is a small drawing school with open-air weekend drawing workshops in the Ruapehu District and one-day sessions in the Eastbourne Bays Regional Park, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington.
Join a drawing community and make work in the open-air. This is an untutored event. You are responsible for your own art materials and yourself.
This Walking-Drawing experience is FREE.
Untutored Open-air Drawing Event
Date: 9.30 to 11.30am Saturday 17th. of May.
Venue: Zealandia, End of Waiapu Road, Karori, Wellington.
Cost: Zealandia Entry Fee
Meeting point: Zealandia Cafe
Bring: Art Materials, all weather clothing, footwear etc
To enquire: Email
Feedback…
“The whole experience of working with you has clarified and identified what I need for my own work. The lunch you provided-fabulous.”
Jude G – December 2024
Tutored Open-air Drawing and Studio
Explore a range of sensory embodied drawing processes in the open-air.
Cost: $110
Date: Friday 16th May 10am – 1pm
*Art Materials and Morning Tea provided.
Summer Drawing 2025
Friday Drawing Projects, Whiorau Studio, Eastbourne, Wellington. Play and Explore Process: Create your own abstract visual language. 28th February – 21st March 2025, 10am – 1pm. The series of four Friday workshops are held in my bays studio. We will play with multiple drawing processes over the first three weeks. The aim is to take steps toward a unique abstract visual language. In the last week students will create a final work. Materials are supplied. Cost $275 Note: this course requires a minimum of 3 participants to run.
Ruapehu Drawing Retreat Weekend. 21st – 23rd February. A weekend of drawing in the open-air. Connect with nature through drawing. Accommodation and vegetarian meals included. The Raetihi Drawing Retreat is held in the Central Plateau. Participants will experience drawing in the open-air. I will share my own embodied-sensory process (PhD research) along with others. Materials are supplied. Friday 2pm – Sunday noon. Cost $490 Minimum of three participants required.
To enquire: Email
Feedback…
“Maria’s method of drawing is approachable, joyful and meditative. I would recommend these workshops to everyone, at any level of drawing experience.
The house and surroundings in Raetihi are beautiful, and the weekend gave a rare opportunity to tune into my surroundings and myself. I left my weekend with renewed enthusiasm for my drawing practice.”
Connah Podmore
Te Whanganui a Tara
June 2023
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