Expressive oil painting with Cristina Metelli
Three-session block to continue practising expressive oil painting techniques from the experienced artist and tutor, Cristina Metelli. This course is designed to support participants to develop skills and confidence in painting plants, flowers, and objects from life with oil paint with loose and expressive feel using the "Alla Prima" technique from life, or from photographs. The objective of these sessions is to develop your skills in gestural paint application to help you to connect to your personal response to what you see and express this through texture and colour.
It is a course requirement to have attended Cristina Metelli's Expressive Oil Painting course or the Fundamentals of Expressive Oil Painting workshop prior to booking this block. Further introductory workshops will be scheduled later in the year.
Dates: 25th May and 1st and 8th June 2024
Cristina Metelli
Having spent her childhood in Italy, Cristina moved to Australia as a young adult. She is a multi-award winning South Australian artist and gained a First Class Honours Degree from Adelaide's premiere art school, Adelaide Central School of Art in 2018. Cristina has been practising art making for 40 years, and teaching expressive painting for four years.
'Inspired by the diversity and beauty of nature, Cristina Metelli’s work investigates the depth to which human lives are entwined and connected to the natural environment through subjects of belonging, spirit of place and nature’s vulnerability.
Her investigations draw upon her interest in the fields of both natural sciences and psychology, and the way in which people can be positively affected by their interaction with nature. Her abstract paintings mark the space between nature and human perceptions. Each painting depicts a moment in time, a unique experience of the natural landscape through a sensorial and emotional response. With a bold use of colours and paint application techniques, Cristina seeks to evoke in the viewer their own memories and emotions.' Cristina Metelli's bio
