Classes

Factory 114 Artmakers Hub

Are you a painter, sculptor, printmaker, textile, collage, or drawing artist looking for inspiration, encouragement, or professional support to take your work further?

Bring along your current project (or talk to me about something you’ve wanted to create) and settle into the welcoming atmosphere of Factory 114—a beautiful historic warehouse art studio in the heart of Annandale, purposefully equipped for a wide range of creative pursuits.

This relaxed fortnightly gathering is about more than making art. It’s an opportunity to connect with like-minded creatives on a regular basis to share ideas, brainstorm, experiment, be inspired, and build friendships while enjoying the pleasure of working alongside others who share your passion.

With professional teaching and individual guidance for your unique project, you’ll receive practical support and fresh perspectives to extend your skills and ideas.

Come for the art, stay for the friendship, inspiration, and wonderfully relaxed creative atmosphere.

This is a creative escape repeated each fortnight starting 4 September 2026, with short breaks now and then (so I can make my own work or head to the hills) for artists of all levels. Bring your project and let the ideas and laughter flow!

10am – 12pm

$95 per session

5-Week Sculpture Course:

Thursday evenings, 630-930pm

20 Aug – 17 Sept 2026

1 Oct – 29 Oct 2026

Come and learn from an internationally exhibiting sculptor in a beautiful and highly supportive professional art studio. Whether you’re a complete beginner or experienced at sculpting but would like to take your sculptural skills, material or technical understanding further, come and join this class! Select your own project or, if you’re new to sculpting, let me know what you envisage and I’ll collaboratively design a unique project with you to spark your creativity.

Price includes:

Small classes for optimum tuition and individual attention.
Use of excellent range of quality studio tools and equipment
Vegetarian refreshments and home-brewed chai
Personal shelf to store your work/materials between classes

Course price $465

Please don’t hesitate to Contact me with any questions or to secure your place.

Semi-abstract Landscape Watercolour Classes

In this engaging watercolour painting class, you’ll learn how to create stunning landscapes. Ideal for beginners onward, everyone is welcome! Let me walk you though the process so you can proudly display your unique artwork at home. Quality materials and equipment provided, along with light refreshments and home-brewed chai. Bring a friend and have a wonderfully relaxing and fun experience.

Next Class: Sat 29 Aug, 2-4pm

$120 single booking

$110 for 3 guests booking together

Special rates for custom bookings for 4-24 guests.

Contact me to secure your place

Anatomical Watercolours

Next class: Vines and Spines, 30 Aug 2026 2-4:30pm

Finding the usual watercolour subjects of flowers and fruit bowls a bit ho-hum? Then come and learn new techniques while you paint this edgy image of the human vertebrae with entangled plants. Suitable for absolute beginners to the more experienced, let me give you step-by-step guidance to build your confidence, skills and enjoyment with watercolour painting.

$120 for single booking.

$110 each for 3 guests booking together

Special rates for custom classes by request for 4 – 24 guests

All quality materials & light refreshments included.

Contact me directly to secure your place.

Vines and Spines

Skull

Heart

Pelvis

WIRE DRAWING FULL DAY WORKSHOP

Next Full Day Workshop: 3 Oct 2026. 10am – 4pm

$240 for single booking

$220 each for 2 + guests booking together

Special rates for custom classes by request for 4 – 12 guests

All quality materials & light refreshments included to create 2 wire sculptures mounted on wood block

Contact me to request a workshop

One-on-one tuition

Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you require support with:

Sculpting
Drawing
Painting
Critique of your work
HSC art theory
Moulding (porosity, silicone, latex)

HSC STUDENTS

Having taught in rural and remote high schools, I am aware that art theory is often the stumbling block for many students, so I have designed art theory educational resources that have been implemented in various NSW high schools as highly affective teaching tools. These resources enable students to deconstruct the visual image, whilst teaching ‘The Frames’ as defined within the HSC curriculum. They have become invaluable towards learning how to deconstruct and discuss images- including communicating student intentions in their own artwork.

Students extend their practical artmaking skills and conceptual art theory criticism in order that they excel in the HSC. With an emphasis on curriculum objectives, outcomes and the need to apply higher order critical thinking to art, I foster an exploration of the conceptualisation of ideas – and the representation of those ideas through artwork.

Tuition is delivered within an extremely supportive learning environment, where students are encouraged to explore the intellectualisation of ideas in visual art. Tuition takes place at Factory 114 in Annandale or at the student’s home if their body of work is not easily transportable (or if students prefer this option). Please don’t hesitate to contact me.

TESTIMONIALS:

Residential Sculpture & Mouldmaking workshop:

As a New Caledonian based artist with no teaching facilities available, I was thrilled to find Clare and do a 10-day residential immersive sculpture & mould making workshop in her studio . We covered some serious technical, methodological and material ground! The cherry on the cake was the great ambiance, food, gardens and Billy, the dog. Clare really put in the effort to make me welcome. Thank you Clare for giving me that whip-lash learning pace in such a great environment … INTENSIVE & GREAT !! Biz SG

8-week Sculpture & Mouldmaking course:

Clare is an extremely gifted teacher and talented artist. I had the privilege of attending two of Clare’s courses and can’t recommend them highly enough. Student’s worked at various artistic levels, independently under her tutelage. They sculpted in clay and made moulds in plaster, latex and silicon for casting in slip, wax, gypsum, aluminium and concrete. I learnt to work with wax and also made a 12-part plaster mould for slip for a postgraduate research project. Would I attend more workshops with Clare? Absolutely, YES! MG

Anatomical Watercolour class

I had such a great time taking Clare’s class . She is so didactic, encouraging and has established such a great rapport with us students 🙂 I’m not very artistic but Clare has really encouraged me to connect with my creativity and to develop my art work in my own pace and form. Thank you, Clare. MS.