ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Libby Derham

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An award-winning, full-time artist, Libby Derham is a fourth-generation watercolourist. She won the Annie Tan Memorial Watercolour Award (Queensland Regional Art Awards) (2021) and has been a finalist in multiple local and national awards. She completed art training at Surrey Institute of Art and Design in the UK (1996-1998). 

Pushing traditional into experimental watercolour, Libby looks for new ways of working with the medium’s dynamic fluidity and transparent qualities, mixing with pigment. An appreciation for the natural world informs Libby's practice. The work seeks to capture her sensory experience within it and the immersive qualities of En plein air. 

Growing up with a forest for a backyard, Libby was drawn to the avian world from a young age. Through her unique use of colours and mark-making of the birds’ layered sounds and movements, Libby works to transcribe birdsong to line and makes commentary on habitat loss and diversity decline.

Be inspired by nature and use this as the starting point for each new technique.

• Dates: 3 - 4 February 2024
  
• Days and Time: Sat/Sun 9.30am - 4.30pm
  
• Venue (Studio and Field):  Ginger Factory, Sunshine Coast

Watercolour Two (Intensive) This course continues the exploration of painting with watercolour looking at harmony in colour and combination of techniques. Students will learn how to stretch paper and will complete a series of exercises and projects based on themes from nature. 

• Dates: 2 - 3 March 2024
  
• Days and Time: Sat/Sun 9.30am - 4.30pm
  
• Venue (Studio and Field):  The Ginger Factory