Painting With Natural Materials |  Emily Imeson

Saturday 26 - Sunday 27 April 2025

Time: 9.00am - 3.00pm both dates
Where: Ignite Studios - 60 Crane Street Ballina
Age: 18+
Cost: $280 (incl GST) - tools and materials provided

What environmental impact do we have as artists? Can we step lightly on the earth in our practice? Explore the fundamentals of painting with a focus on natural pigments, non-toxic, plastic free mediums, and an ecologically sensitive approach to art making with exhibiting artist Emily Imeson.

In this two-day workshop Emily will take participants through the fundamentals of preparing surfaces to work on, and making paints from natural pigments, followed by guided drawing exercises, and painting demonstrations, both abstract and landscape based. The workshop will then move into experimental mark-making and an exploration of the materials, with a final focus on the creation of two small compositions. At the end of the workshop participants will have two small, completed works to take home with them.

Landscape painting is the foundation of Emily’s practice, and her teaching will draw on this background, as well as focusing on abstract play and explorative mark-making.

As an artist Emily has dedicated herself to exploring ecologically considerate materials and mediums in her work, and this workshop will consider some of the questions she finds herself grappling with in the journey to develop accountability for waste and consumption within her practice.

This workshop is ticketed and has a limited capacity. Tools and materials are provided, and there will be a short break for lunch. Bring water and food or enjoy the Gallery Café next door.

Bookings available below.

Emily Imeson is a Northern Rivers artist exploring ideas of care, bush regeneration, recycling, and the macro/micro to expand understandings of landscape and painting. She holds an Honours in Visual Arts from Southern Cross University Lismore and has been supported by multiple scholarships to develop her practice. From 2018 to 2020 Imeson travelled Australia, living and working from the road, and in 2019 was awarded the Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize for the work ‘Alive in the Dead of Night’. In 2020, she received the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship and in 2022 her work ‘When the Mud Dries (Lismore)’ won the Paddington Art Prize.

Emily’s exhibition Worlds Within Worlds is on show at the Northern Rivers Community Gallery from 6 March to 27 April 2025.

The Northern Rivers Community Gallery is a wheelchair accessible venue. Please contact us ahead of time if you have accessibility needs you would like us to be aware of.

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 Image credits: Emily Imeson, Works in Progress, natural ground pigment on canvas, 2025; Emily Imeson, Red Mountain, natural ground pigment on canvas, 2025; Emily Imeson, Blue Mountain, natural ground pigment on canvas, 2025;