HOTA Gallery presents an exclusive series of Oil Painting Masterclasses to extend your Italian Renaissance Alive experience. Each session will be facilitated by a prominent artist in our region, showcasing foundational techniques and Renaissance influences relevant to the lead artist’s practice. 

Join us for a day of skilled yet informal instruction, learning and fun artmaking in a relaxed setting, all abilities are welcome. All painting materials will be supplied for use on the day and a light lunch will be provided. Don’t wait to secure your ticket, masterclass spots are strictly limited to 15 seats per session, with the special early bird price live for one week only! 

In this session, artist René Bolten will guide participants through a workshop exploring still life and the loaded object. Participants are asked to bring an object that has special meaning for them to the workshop. René will engage participants in the process of painting two representations of their chosen object as a diptych. The first as a still life painting of the object, exploring its simple visual qualities, and the second a painting representing the participant’s loaded memories, feelings and experiences of their object. 

René will also introduce his art practice and show a selection of some of his recent and past still life works and talk to some of the paintings from the Italian Renaissance Alive exhibition, reflective of the themes of his workshop.