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Glass etching, knife making and the Japanese art of repairing ceramics with gold leaf are just a few of the diverse crafts and skills being taught at this year’s Creative Matakana, a week of workshops and courses in the second week of May.
There are 17 activities on offer, all taught by experts in their field, ranging from one-day art and architecture tours up to a week-long course on making a wooden Windsor chair from scratch.
There are 10 five-day courses, including iron sculpture with Jeff Thomson, writing with Joe Bennett, watercolour painting with Bernadette Parsons, painting and drawing with Mandy Thomsett-Taylor, wood sculpture with Louise McRae, non-toxic printmaking with Mark Graver, glass etching and vitreographs with Elizabeth McClure and oral history with Judith Fyfe.
There are also three one-day workshops devoted to Japanese craft and culture this year, including kintsugi (repairing pottery with gold leaf), furoshiki (creative fabric wrapping), sogetsu ikebana (floral arrangement) and shibori (indigo dyeing).
Creative Matakana was established three years ago by Jo Connor and Vivienne Kerr, and it is modelled on a long-running art school in Wanaka.
Information and bookings for all activities is available online at creativematakana.nz
Mandy Thomsett-Taylor incorporates colourful stitching in her multimedia painting and drawing.
Painting al fresco will be on the cards with watercolour tutor Bernadette Parsons.
