This workshop is for beginners, those wanting to refresh their practice of sumi-e or to progress their practice further.
Sumi-e, ink painting, is the traditional art form of Japan. In this workshop we will learn and practice the traditional method of brush stokes, posture and mindfulness necessary to produce a sumi-e painting. We shall revise and move through the “Four Gentlemen" (bamboo, orchid, plum and chrysanthemum), which give us our basic, necessary brush strokes and onto other traditionally Asian subjects.
Each person will move at their own guided pace as it is not the finished painting that is important but an understanding of technique, water and ink control, type of paper and the essential mindfulness necessary to produce, not the perfect representation of an object but the essence of it. Being able to understand the essence of a subject is vital to sumi-e.
“In sumi-e are the eloquent descriptions of the complex and infinite universe, while the blank space is equally eloquent with its silence of nothingness.” Motoi Oi in Brush Stokes of Sumi-e Painting 1963.
$240aud includes all materials and a delicious lunch
ARTISTS BIO : Stephen Carroll has been working as a visual artists, in various media, since his school days. He has exhibited as a potter, print maker
Stephen Carroll is an Australian artist working in the medium of sumi-e and Chinese brush painting. Stephen undertook training with Janet Twigg-Patterson in Canberra (Red Crane Gallery), in Japan where he met Ransui Yakata, in China with Mr Pi and continues working with with Harumi Kobayashi, director of the international Association of Sumi, Japan. Consequently; Stephen became the first Australian director of the International Chinese Calligraphic and Brush Painters Society (ICCPS) and he subsequently has exhibited in Australia, China and Japan. He curated an ICCPS exhibition of international artists for the Orange Regional Art Gallery and has been invited to exhibit in the Nippon Suibokuga Art Association Exhibition at the Hirakushi Denchu Art Museum of Art, Okayama Japan, to commemorate Sesshu, the founder of sumi-e and is an invited artist at the Art Beyond Boundaries exhibition (International Association of Sumi Japan), at the National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan. Stephen’s work is held in public and private collections and he continues to teach and exhibit on a regular basis. Stephen will be exhibiting in a joint show at The Southern Highlands Artisans Collective (SHAC) in May and June 2024.
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