A Colourful Canvas and Christmas Craft

Create a colourful canvas or choose a Christmas Craft and unwind with us at Rockhampton Museum of Art in a relaxed social art workshop that provides the night out you need!

Join friends or make new ones in a class that allows you to experiment in a time and space just for you.

This special Christmas class will include a glass or two of wine to help you unwind! This is a two-hour workshop aimed at complete beginners or those who have some drawing, painting and crafting experience. This class will teach you the practical skills and some basic techniques used in painting a colourful canvas and creating a Christmas decoration for your home or to give to someone special.

All materials supplied.

 

 

 

About the Artist Educator

Michelle Taranto is an emerging Australian artist based on Darumbal Country in Yeppoon, Central Queensland, and enjoys sharing her passion for painting through workshops. Taranto's work is colourful, joyous and energetic, ranging from abstract plant art to expressive dog portraits and sometimes whimsical combinations of both. 

Taranto is self-taught and inspired by the rainbow palette of Latin America where she travelled as a young woman and also draws inspiration for her artworks from her hundreds of tropical houseplants and cacti collection, her beloved Black Labrador, Tobi, and her Chihuahuas, Pablo, Paloma and Chiquita.

Taranto’s debut solo exhibition in 2023 at Yeppoon’s Fig Tree Galleries, Happy at Home, was a phenomenal success. In the same year, Taranto created her art business, Arco Iris Interiors, where she offers colourful original artworks and hopes to expand into fashion and interior design to cater for those who love colourful, eclectic and maximalist style and decor. 2023 also saw Taranto win first prize for the Easel Works Section of the Martin Hanson Art Awards, GRAGM, for her self-portrait titled Modern Mother.

 

Images L-R: artwork by Michelle Taranto. Michelle Taranto with artworks. Workshop Facilitated by Michelle Taranto. All images courtesy the artist. 

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