Abstract Landscape Process, Play & Intuitive Painting with Zoe Sernack
Saturday 28 & Sunday 29 November 2026
10am - 4pm
Venue : View Street, Woollahra
Close to Bondi Junction train/bus terminus. Free street parking if arriving by car.
Overview
Working on two works at once encourages experimentation and allows ideas to develop naturally. With a focus on process rather than perfection this workshop celebrates curiosity, play and personal expression. Individual guidance is given throughout, together with demonstrations and group discussions.
You are encouraged to develop artworks reflecting your unique visual language.
$595 (2 days)
If you cancel, a full refund will be given after a replacement registration is received.
About Zoe
Zoe Sernack is a Sydney based artist and experienced tutor known for her layered landscape paintings. Through intuitive mark making, she reimagines nature as a space of memory, rhythm and connection. Zoe holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the National Art School and has exhibited for over 28 years, with numerous solo and group shows. She has been a finalist in many well known art prizes, including Wynne, Salon de Refusè, Hawkesbury Art Prize and Lethbridge Landscape Prize.
DAY 1 / Saturday 28 Nov / 10am - 4pm
This workshop invites you to explore and expand your painting practice through a contemporary approach to abstract landscape.
Designed to encourage experimentation and creative freedom, the workshop begins with a series of simple mark-making exercises to help you loosen up, build confidence and discover new ways for creating movement, rhythm and energy within your work.
Drawing inspiration from the surrounding environment as well as your personal reference images, you will develop sketches and visual studies exploring composition, texture, colour and form. Collage techniques on card are introduced as a valuable tool for investigating layering, balance and surface relationships. Through cutting, arranging and reworking materials you will create exploratory studies informing your transition to painting on wooden boards.
DAY 2 / Sunday 29 Nov / 10am - 4pm
Painting on wooden boards you are are encouraged to work intuitively, allowing shapes, colours and marks to guide your creative process.
Stencilling techniques are introduced to build depth and visual complexity, while optional wood-burning tools may be used to introduce expressive line work and texture directly into the surface.
Materials
Materials you need to bring:
4 Faber-Castell Pitt Artist black pens
1x3m&1x5m white Posca pen
scissors and/or Stanley knife & small cutting mat IF you own one
approx 6 printouts of inspirational landscape or botanical images you personally like, alternatively bring images on your phone .
Included in workshop price:
2 x 30cm birch boards - square and rectangle
acrylic paint - flow & impasto
warm &cool yellow, red, blue; white, pewter, ghostgum, paynes grey, hookers green, burnt sienna, burnt umber
10xA3 card to cut out shapes or stencil work as well as base card for collage
a range of ‘hard working’ acrylic brushes - fine to 8cm
A3 size flat palette - eg piece of hard plastic such as melamine plate
cleaning rags
PVA glue • spatula for paint mixing
masking (frog) tape - 36mm wide
water holder to clean brushes
8-10 sheets of A4 paper 125gsm
