Art Tasters workshop series

Next date: Saturday, 17 October 2026 | 10:30 AM to 01:30 PM

Are you are interested in learning new art techniques? We have workshops for you!

Join us in the Art Tasters workshop series to learn different art mediums and techniques with an artist each month.

Cost $25 - bookings essential. These inclusive workshops have all materials provided.

Caboolture Regional Art Gallery is open from Tuesday to Saturday, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM.

Saturday 17 October | Exploring collage with Amanda Gardner

Join artist Amanda Gardner in a relaxed, hands-on workshop that plays with images, observation, and cut-and-paste. Using the landscape as a starting point, create collages that respond to what you see and how to interpret it.

Through a range of landscape images, participants will explore elements of design, discovering unexpected details and visual connections. Working with paper, participants will build layered compositions, experimenting with cutting, tearing, arranging, and reworking. The focus is on exploration, experimentation, discovery, and seeing how simple choices can change the visual composition.

About the artist

Amanda Gardner’s collage evolves through experimentation, observation, and a direct response to the ideas and relationships suggested by her source materials.

She creates collages using original photographs and found papers. Her work is process-driven, dependent on the resources she discovers, the simple act of cutting and pasting, and the unhurried contemplation of the visual elements within a composition. Central to her practice is the mindful use of essential materials that are, where possible, non-toxic and biodegradable.

Saturday 14 November | Intro to acrylics and glazing with Rachel South

Join 2026 Moreton Bay Art Prize winner Rachel South in a relaxed, hands-on workshop that introduces the fundamentals of acrylic painting – from mixing colours to loading a brush – while creating your own small flower painting.

Working from a beautiful arrangement of fresh flowers, explore simple glazing techniques to build soft, luminous colour and give your painting depth. Bring your curiosity and leave with a finished piece and new skills to keep painting at home.

About the artist

Rachel South is a Queensland-based painter working across hyperreal painting, portraiture and installation, best known for her large-format Beautifully Tangled series, which magnifies hair into landscape – terrain, memory, something you want to reach out and touch

In 2026 she was awarded first place in the Moreton Bay Art Prize for Sun-Kissed Chestnut, adding to a growing list of finalist placings and awards across the Moreton Bay Regional Art Awards, Flying Arts QRAA and the Brisbane Portrait Prize.

Rachel holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting and Printmaking) from Griffith University, Queensland College of Art. When she isn’t in the studio, she can be found on a flower farm, hands in the soil – a love of nature and botanicals that flows directly into her practice and into workshops like this one.