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Developing your Practice – a hands-on workshop series for painters
Developing your Practice – a hands-on workshop series for painters
led by Charlotte Ivey + Lana Daubermann
7 June – 18 August 2026
times: fortnightly Sundays, 10 am – 1pm
admission: $175 per session
materials provided
Led by Charlotte Ivey (abstract artist) and Lana Daubermann (landscape artist), these workshops are designed to inspire painters from beginners to those with more experience. This series of six fortnightly workshops can be booked individually, or as a complete set. All materials are supplied, so all you need to do is turn up (in clothing you don’t mind getting paint on!), and be ready to explore.
| Workshop 1: Composition | 7 June, 10am – 1pm | This workshop focuses on composition in painting, and how you can use it to create harmony, tension, balance, mood and interest in your work. We’ll talk through some basic compositional ‘rules’ then we’ll take you through a series of practical exercises that encourage you to explore compositional ideas for yourself – working within or without the ‘rules’. |
| Workshop 2: Subject matter | 21 June, 10am – 1pm | What do you want to paint? What do you want your work to communicate? This workshop helps you to unpack these questions, exploring connection to your work as an artist. It could be a starting point for you, a deep dive into existing themes that have appeared in your work, or perhaps a change in direction. Expect self-reflection, group discussions, inspiration, and practical exercises to help you build a personalised visual diary of your practice. |
| Workshop 3: Colour choices | 5 July, 10am – 1pm | This session explores colour, providing ideas and tools to give you more confidence with using colour in your work. We’ll discuss colour as a standalone presence, colour combinations, the art of manipulating colour through pairings, and the use of colour in historical and current contexts. We’ll do some simple colour selection and mixing exercises to launch your own colour wheel collection, creating a solid colour reference for your practice, and some fresh inspiration. |
| Workshop 4: Mark-making | 19 July, 10am – 1pm | Mark-making, brushwork, texture… these all work together to create depth, energy and movement in a painting. This session gives you the chance to expand your mark-making vocabulary as we consider how the marks we make record our own experience as well as impact the viewers experience of our work. |
| Workshop 5: Strengthening your voice | 2 August, 10am – 1pm | This workshop is more of an open discussion around our work and how we can strengthen our voice and the direction of our practice. Participants are required to bring in some of their own work to talk about. The session will be mostly discussion based, with one painting exercise included. |
| Workshop 6: Building your practice | 16 August, 10am – 1pm | This session will involve open discussions about the challenges of surviving as a practicing artist. We’ll give you some practical advice, helpful templates and real life answers to all of your questions. We’ll have a mini play session creating a pop up exhibition where you’ll be encouraged to talk about your impromptu work in a relaxed and supportive environment. Whether you want to dip your toe into the world of galleries, connect with other painters, or break through personal roadblocks, this session will build confidence and independence in whatever steps you choose to take next as an artist. |
Charlotte Ivey
Charlotte Ivey is a visual artist born in Aotearoa/New Zealand where she studied Philosophy of Art at University of Canterbury. She now resides in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.
Largely focussed on oil painting, Charlotte’s work is led by the impulses of the body – exploring the illusory nature of psychological states, and how they dictate our experience of external environments. She charts a territory somewhere between the traditionally ‘beautiful’ and ‘distasteful’.
https://www.charlotteivey.com/
Lana Daubermann
Lana Daubermann is a landscape and still life painter living near Melbourne’s Merri Creek. She has painted since she was a child, slowly sidestepping her way out of a career in advertising to becoming a full-time artist.
Lana primarily works in oils and enjoys the immersive qualities of paint and its endless possibilities in mark-making. Painting en plein air and direct from life is an important part of her practice as she explores the process of painting and drawing and the unique way it can connect us to the world. With a traditional background in tonalism, her attention over the years has shifted more towards intuition and colour.
She exhibits and teaches regularly, and loves to share her passion for painting with others.
