Classes

“In a world consumed by consumerism, never feel the need to justify your creativity” – Clare Nicholson

UPCOMING CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS 2025 HELD AT HABERFIELD-

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8-Week Sculpture Course:

Thursday evenings, 6:30 – 9:30pm. 31 July – 18 Sept.

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, tea or coffee
Personal shelf to store your work/materials between classes
Access to kiln for firing (at extra cost – see rates below)

Available for purchase:

Keanes white earthenware $34/10kg.
Quality sculpting & ceramic tools

Course price: $685

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

Semi-abstract Watercolour Classes:

Sunday 29 June, 10:30am – 1pm

Sunday 6 July, 10:30am – 1pm

In this engaging watercolour painting class, you’ll learn how to create stunning watercolours inspired by the landscape. Ideal for absolute beginners onward, everyone is welcome! Let me walk you through the process step-by-step, so you can proudly display your own masterpiece at home. Quality materials and equipment provided, along withlight refreshments and home-brewed chai, tea or coffee. Just come along or bring your friends and have a fun, relaxing experience.

$125 for single booking.

Bring 2 friends – $90 each

Bring 3 friends – $75 each

Special rates for custom classes by request for 4 or more guests

Contact me directly to secure your place.

Anatomical Watercolours:

Vines and Spines. Saturday 28 June, 2-4pm

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.

$125 for single booking.

Bring 2 friends – $90 each

Bring 3 friends – $75 each

Special rates for custom classes by request for 4 or more guests

All quality materials & light refreshments included.

Contact me directly to secure your place.

Skull

Heart

Pelvis

WIRE DRAWING

Dates tba.

Custom workshops for 3 or more guests by request

$265 for single booking

Bring 2 friends – $250 each

Bring 3 friends – $235 each

Special rates for custom classes by request for 4 or more 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

Being aware that art theory is often the stumbling block for many students, 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 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 and artmaking. Tuition takes place at my Haberfield studio in Sydney’s Inner West, or at the student’s home if their body of work is not easily transportable (or students prefer this option). Please don’t hesitate to contact me.

FIRING SERVICES (for enrolled students only)

$12/kg for bisque firing only.
$18/kg for full bisque to mid firing.
$165 full kiln (150L)

Glaze firing not available – Ask for contact details of alternative glazing and firing services.

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.