Upcoming Events

Join me in the Boathouse for a weekend of discovery and painting advancement. Take home a lifetime of memories." Robert McAffee We are at Geneva Park YMCA Conference Centre and hotel. This will be our fourth retreat and they just keep getting more and more awesome. The accommodations are excellent. Spacious Hotel rooms with facing Lake Couchiching. Fully staffed facility with its own restaurant and chef. Canoes and kayaks and hiking trails await you. We are painting in a huge…

We are so excited to have Marianne Morris joining our Workshop Instructor Team! With years of experience as a professional artist coupled with a love of encouraging people in the arts you are guaranteed a Feel Good Kinda Day. With Marianne you will be guided to step beyond your experiences and to get in touch with your own creative flow. You will practice mark making, play with colour contrasts, and create abstract pieces that actually mean something to you...but could…

Shibori is a Japanese dyeing technique that typically involved folding, twisting or bunching cloth and binding it, then dyeing it in Indigo. Whatever is used to bind the fabric will resist the dye, resulting in areas of the cloth that take the distinctive blue dye in patterns. Welcome to Gwen Sedman's Shibori workshop! Join us pattern making and creating with cotton cloths. You'll fall in love with this experience and Gwen is simply fabulous! Save your Seat!

Felting! Felt is a textile material that is produced by matting, condensing and pressing fibres together with either water or with a special tool known as a felting needle. Felt can be made of natural fibres such as wool or animal fur, or from synthetic fibres such as petroleum based acrylic or acrylonitrile or wood pulp based rayon. Blended fibres are also common. In this workshop you will learn step by step how to create simple landscapes and florals with…

Join Brigitte Granton in her next Canadiana Landscape workshop in Waterbased Oil! Brigitte will demo one of her popular pieces. (which is massively generous of her right?) You will be guided step by step with samples and demonstrations. You'll learn composition and some very basic perspective techniques and take home a finished painting at the end of the day. Brigitte loves to see people learning to paint and experienced artists getting newly inspired. If you missed the last workshop don't…