About

Watercolours & Acrylics

This is my Art and Travel Journal ( or Journey ). Join me as I explore the ups and downs of creating & teaching Art. You will see the process and hear how my paintings, drawings and sketches come to life.

I am a professional Artist and Sketch tutor, who after leaving the advertising industry in 1986, went to The Julian Ashton Art School and completed a 4 year diploma in Fine Arts.

I had my own Art Gallery for 10 years, painting and selling watercolours of the local area and further afield. Also showing were my French Italian and Greek Isles works.

My former Art School is now the North Shore School of Art.  I now have ‘The Art of Travel Sketching‘  weekly art classes based in the Studio in Manly.

I’ve been exhibiting and selling regularly with commissioned and Gallery works since 1985. I now have  my paintings exhibited in the Studio where I paint. Exhibitions at Bathers’ Pavilion in Balmoral are every 2 years, with other shows planned with other galleries. Dates to be advised.

My work has mainly been watercolour though after recent travels in Italy, I am now using acrylic, which adds another dimension to my work. You can view Watercolours, Sketches, Acrylic and Decorative acrylics.

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These days I travel, paint and sketch on location more. I have an on-going commission for a client in Trausse Minervois, South of France. Each year we produce a Christmas/ New year card from a new painting, for clients who have visited their stone cottages in this delightful village.

I’ll be taking a regular Travel Sketch Art Tour each year. This year we go In September.

This is my ‘Travel Sketching in France’ 2 week Art Tour. Details are in the Menu Bar above, and you are invited to contact me to enquire about places. Contact me soon as it’s a small group.

I like to be in contact with other artists, With a group of painting friends, we regularly travel and explore new techniques and ideas, in Greece, France and Italy. We then keep in touch and continue our dialogue when back in our own studios.

I value enormously the global connection one has by keeping a journal such as this. You are suddenly talking with other like-minded people, and it’s incredibly inspiring to hear about their art journeys. I am much more focussed because of it.

I am  a member of the Sydney Sketch Club, and International SketchCrawl, and this keeps me in touch with other local artists as well. It fascinates me to see how totally differently we each approach the same subject. Many of these sketches are available in the Studio, others stay in my sketch book as inspiration.

I also belong to  Survive France Network to be in touch with the Trausse Minervois region and keep up with what’s happening in the art world there,

Original paintings are for sale so please feel free to ask about sketches or paintings you see here.

If you’d like to email me,  erin@erinhill.com.au

Bruno Cordati’s Studio Barga Italy