Create a Colourful Canvas - Rockhampton Museum of Art

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Thu 17 Oct 2024 - Thu 05 Dec 2024

Create a colourful canvas and unwind with Michelle Taranto at Rockhampton Museum of Art, 220 Quay Street, Rockhampton, in a relaxed social art workshop that provides the night out you need. Join friends or make new ones in a class that allows you to unwind and experiment in a time and space just for you.

Book here and come to this two-hour workshop, that starts at 6 pm until 8 pm, that suit for complete beginners or those who have some drawing and painting experience. This class will teach you the practical skills and some basic techniques used in painting a colourful canvas. A $55 fee for general admissions and $49.50 for RMOA members, all materials supplied.

Michelle Taranto is an emerging Australian artist based on Darumbal Country in Yeppoon, Central Queensland, and enjoys sharing her passion for painting through workshops. Taranto's work is colourful, joyous and energetic, ranging from abstract plant art to expressive dog portraits and sometimes whimsical combinations of both. 

Taranto is self-taught and inspired by the rainbow palette of Latin America where she travelled as a young woman and also draws inspiration for her artworks from her hundreds of tropical houseplants and cacti collection, her beloved Black Labrador, Tobi, and her Chihuahuas, Pablo, Paloma and Chiquita.

Taranto’s debut solo exhibition in 2023 at Yeppoon’s Fig Tree Galleries, Happy at Home, was a phenomenal success. In the same year, Taranto created her art business, Arco Iris Interiors, where she offers colourful original artworks and hopes to expand into fashion and interior design to cater for those who love colourful, eclectic and maximalist style and decor. 2023 also saw Taranto win first prize for the Easel Works Section of the Martin Hanson Art Awards, GRAGM, for her self-portrait titled Modern Mother.

This event will be on Thursday, 17 October 2024 and Thursday, 5 December 2024. For more information about this event, please contact Rockhampton Museum of Art at the telephone number (07) 4936 8248 or email at [email protected].


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