Painting with Elena Parashko
Last week Elena Parashko lead a group of artists at Daku Resort. Karen (attending her second art and painting retreat at Daku) writes below: “This is my second time to Daku Resort to combine some...
View ArticleBotanical Art Workshop
Last week artist Leonie Norton led a group of artists in a botanical art and holiday sketching retreat. The week was spent at a slow and leisurely pace, painting, sketching and drawing in various...
View ArticleFlower Power and Snail Trails
Time to mark some recent successes for two of our art teachers. Botanical art teacher Leonie Norton has just seen her marvellous book Women of Flowers: Botanical Art in Australia from the 1830s to the...
View ArticleBeing Kind to Yourself
Elena Parashko, who comes to Daku to teach a week of Seascape painting in August, is a regular contributor to a number of art magazines. In this article she reflects on the need to sometimes step back...
View ArticleAll-Weather Watercolours
It was a definite irony that the watercolour painting group (24 June – 1 July) spent their first two days surrounded by more rain than we had seen for a month. However, they hardly seemed to notice;...
View ArticleFlowering Talent : Botanical Artists
The delicacy and detail of botanical paintings is astonishing. With six days at their disposal, the artists still claimed they were pressed to finish by the end of the week – but their artwork was of a...
View ArticleEver Changing Times
“A picture tells a thousand words”, but which words do they speak? Elena Parashko’s haunting painting of a marooned ship in a drought-devastated landscape was recently selected as a finalist in ANL...
View ArticleThe Joy of Painting
In September, Kerrie Lester was at Daku for her second workshop. One of her students, Christine Leaming, writes about the week and what she learnt. It was a week was filled with painting, new...
View ArticleWater is for washing brushes only!
Kerrie on the deck at her villa in Daku Resort Kerrie Lester’s third painting retreat at Daku was her busiest to date. There was a difference this year in that much of the painting took place on the...
View ArticleEndless inspiration in the waters of the island
Mark Waller is above all a lover of water, and in Fiji he found endless excitement and inspiration in the waters of the island – the shapes and shadows of the coral reefs below the surface of the...
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