Creative Classes and Workshops
Empowering you to draw, paint and be creative
Led by a Tasmanian artist, educator, and arts advocate Dr. Meg Walch, these creative classes and workshops are designed to carefully draw out of every participant the realisation (and satisfaction!) that you can draw, paint and be creative.
Our Hobart-based Giblin Street Studio is set in a lush, nourishing oasis, hidden behind a suburban gate. The studio and garden is an incubator where we invite you to cultivate your own creativity in its many forms.
Familiarity with manipulating messy mediums, using paint, charcoal and inks is a wonderful and impactful method for resilience training - which always transforms the material (and often the maker!).
So dress to get messy, and invest in a workshop that gives you the space to find the freedom you crave.
Our workshops are suitable for anyone who would like to explore…..
Attract, Extract, Induce
Drawing Workshop
Sunday 16 June 2024, 10am-1pm
Workshop available to 8 people, suitable for people interested in exploring the delight of drawing and exercising the brain through the hand.
To draw is to attract, extract, induce, gently pull or guide, to formulate, to perceive, to take breath, to move in a slow and steady way.
Just as the word draw has multiple meanings and applications; drawing can be used for representation, problem solving, and accessing flow states. This workshop offers a different perspective and a toolkit for drawing out the potential of both the medium and the drawer.
Dates: Sunday June 16th 10am - 1pm.
Workshop: $137, includes booking fee, resource kit, materials and fresh home made morning tea. (Please advise if you have any food intolerances or sensitivities). 8 people per workshop.
Seductive, Subjective, Sticky
Painting Workshop
26 May 2024, 9.30am-1.30pm
Workshop available to 8 people, suitable for beginner - intermediate painters or anyone interested in exploring the medium for the first time.
In this workshop we focus on select techniques and materials in painting with oils and acrylics (specialising in oils) and will include a generous dollop of Colour Theory. For beginning to intermediate painters.
Some of the topics we cover: choosing painting supports, priming, grounds, underpainting, sketching in form, blocking in form, highlights, Colour Theory & Toxicology.
Dates: Sunday May 26th 9.30 am-1.30 pm.
Workshop: $137, includes booking fee, resource kit, materials and fresh home made morning tea. (Please advise if you have any food intolerances or sensitivities). 8 people per workshop.
Workshop Feedback
“After years of artistic hibernation, it was pure delight to be reminded how rewarding it is to explore the power of drawing. I felt rejuvenated and utterly satisfied after my time with marvellous Meg. I’ll be back for more!”
— Jen, Hobart
These workshops have been just what I was looking for in exploring my creativity. Meg has helped me develop the confidence and skills to start oil painting. I am so proud of the beginner work I’ve done in her studio. I also feel like I am getting some real education about art and colour. Always lovely people there - some experienced artists as well as beginners. I highly recommend Meg’s teaching style and vibrant studio.
— Angela, Hobart
Meg's class was a gorgeous balance of experimentation, discovery, laughs and new skills. Meg is a down to earth vibrant teacher and inspired me to launch into further studies in Art Therapy. Definitely looking out for the next workshop!
— Robyn, Kingston
Why do we see colours the way we do?
How is colour used to manipulate space and how is it used to tell a story?
This workshop is a deep dive into the seductive, subjective, relational, and perceptual components of colour, together with colour theory, colour mixing, materials and a peek into the history and economics of colour.
Sunday April 7th 10am-1pm.
Limited to 8 people.
Location: 95A Giblin Street New Town:
Tickets: $137. Includes booking fee, resource kit, materials and morning tea.
Colour Workshop
Workshop Location
In 2021 painting and drawing workshops began at Meg’s Giblin Street studio. The Studio is in a renovated boat shed constructed by boat builder Ron Beltz in the 1930’s, following the Great depression.
Meg teaches workshops in her studio with a focus on drawing and painting. She hosts small groups in her private painting studio and lush garden setting.
Mr. Beltz launching his new boat Sand Deep at the Hobart Dock - 1935