This workshop is now SOLD OUT - check out Stephens next workshop with us on 16th June - seperate listing
Sumi-e is a centuries old art form originally dating from China. In its fundamental quality it is not a representational art but one of “essences ”. In this approach no brush stroke is to be taken without first having an understanding of what one is painting. The artists strives to capture the essence of the subject with minimal strokes and only black ink. Nothing extraneous must be in the composition, which will only distract from the subject. Sumi-e is the art of meditation and contemplation brought to bear upon a subject to be rendered in a painting.
All sumi painters begin with practising “The Four Gentleman" and return to these regularly. These compositions of bamboo, plum, orchid and chrysanthemum contain all the brush stokes needed to paint anything in the world or your immagination.
In this class we will begin with “The Four Gentleman" and through this understand the nature of materials that are used:
· Ink
· Ink stones
· Brushes
· Paper types
This will be a hands on/practical class that will allow you to begin to see your own style in this ancient art form.
All your materials will be supplied.
Lunch and Morning tea will be provided
$240aud
About your teacher - Stephen Carroll..
Stephen Carroll has been working as a visual artists, in various media, since his school days. He has exhibited as a potter, print maker and painter.
In the year 2000 he changed his focus to work in the medium of sumi-e and Chinese brush painting. Stephen undertook training with Janet Twigg-Patterson in Canberra (Red Crane Gallery), in Japan with Ransui Yakata, in China with Mr Pi and continues a regular collaboration with Harumi Kobayashi, director of the international Association of Sumi, Japan. Consequently; Stephen became the 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 currently has work exhibiting 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 (October/November 2023) and is an invited artist at the Art Beyond Boundaries exhibition (International Association of Sumi Japan), at the National Art Center, Tokyo Japan in 2024.
Sumi-e is a centuries old art form originally dating from China. In its fundamental quality it is not a representational art but one of “essences ”. In this approach no brush stroke is to be taken without first having an understanding of what one is painting. The artists strives to capture the essence of the subject with minimal strokes and only black ink. Nothing extraneous must be in the composition, which will only distract from the subject. Sumi-e is the art of meditation and contemplation brought to bear upon a subject to be rendered in a painting.
