Exploring your inner artist

WITH SUSIE RAZ

Saturday 1.30pm - 4.30pm
8, 22 February, 1,15, 22 and 29 March 2025

Cost: 390 for a 6 week term
For all levels – including absolute beginners

Contact Susie on 0414 476 059 or drop an email to susie.e.raz@gmail.com
www.susieraz.com
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Exploring your inner artist - studio term course

Picasso said: “Every child is an artist. The challenge is to remain an artist once we grow up”.

This course is not about getting it right, but rather about finding your own artistic language 0through experimenting and liberating your innate creativity. The various exercises, performed in a supportive environment, invite less experienced artists to explore their untapped creativity and more experienced artists to experiment with new ways of creating. All the activities are designed to help you bypass your critical mind with the result being greater confidence in your ability to authentically express yourself.

The sessions cover a range of topics such as landscape, portraiture, collage, and more. Each session includes PPT slides that introduce artists who employ a similar approach to the topic covered in the session. The participants are then guided through a range of dynamic exercises. While the focus is always on process rather than product, the results are often very exciting.

About Susie

Susie is a self-taught artist. She began to sell her works and exhibit when she was in her 50’s. Her art evolved while spending a number of years painting in a beautiful stable repurposed as a studio in Kangaroo Ground in the Yarra Valley. In this quiet location she developed her current practice. Susie now paints from her studio in Glen Iris where she continues to explore, experiment and learn. Her repertoire includes portraiture, landscape, life drawing, and the poetic.

Susie believes that creativity is a birthright that all people can enjoy. She created the above course to help others to tap into this life force and enjoy its gifts.


Exhibitions

Feb-March 2025 Solo exhibition
Hawthorn Town Hall Gallery
On Whose Shoulders I Stand - a homage to under-recognised Australian women artists

Oct-Nov 2024 Solo exhibition
Montsalvat Artist Community – The Long Gallery
On Whose Shoulders I Stand – a homage to under-recognised Australian women artists

Oct-Nov 2022 Solo exhibition
Montsalvat Artist Community – The Long Gallery
For The One Whose Voice Was Silenced – a family’s story of surviving persecution

March-April 2022 Group exhibition
Hawthorn Town Hall Gallery
Between Worlds – Stories of migration

National competitions

Gosford Painting Prize 2023 Finalist

Gosford Painting Prize 2021 Finalist

National Capital Art Prize 2021 Finalist

Gosford Painting Prize 2020 Finalist

Percival Portrait Prize 2020 Finalist

 

Thanks, Susie for a wonderful experience in your Exploring Your Inner Artist Course. It was great to challenge my mindset and not be too precious with art making. I loved being able to experiment and have fun with new mediums and techniques, and even new techniques with familiar mediums!!!

I really enjoyed the variety of class topics over the eight weeks and the insightful discussions about other artists; works and general art practice issues. All delivered with clear instruction and practical demonstrations in a very supportive and encouraging way. I highly recommend this course to anyone who wants to expand the way they go about making art! Loved every minute! Lynn

I thoroughly enjoyed Susie’s classes. With her project based learning she did a great job in keeping her classes both participative; interactive.  By the end of the term I found many new creative skills supported with some great encouragement, tips and direction.  Costas

If you are at all unwell do not attend sessions at HAS. If you have tested positive, or feel you may have COVID-19, do not come to the studio until a week after you have recovered.