David Giles Art Gallery
Dream of being an artist? Want to connect with your inner creative self? Or just want to lose yourself in the joy of painting? Join David Giles for one of his 1 Day Workshops in Armadale or 6 week classes in Fremantle.
“I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed myself. It has been an extremely supportive and nurturing experience, creatively and in regards to my well-being.” Shirley, High School Art Teacher
One Day acrylic painting workshops with David Giles
Intuitive approaches to landscape painting
In Person @ ASA (Armadale Society of Artists) Studio at Armadale Arena, Townley Rd, Armadale.
5th January Mystical seascapes and landscapes using soft blended colour field techniques 10am - 4pm
2nd February Impressionistic Landscapes using lyrical, repetitive mark-making techniques 10am - 4pm
2nd March Abstract Landscapes using bold, expressive, mark making techniques 10am - 4pm
$160 Each 1 Day Workshop ($120 concession)
$360 for all three workshops ($300 concession)
BYO art materials including acrylic paints, brushes and canvas. Any size canvas is fine. I recommend 60 x 60cm or 60 x 80cm or similar. We sell exhibition quality canvases, or you can bring your own. We provide palettes, easels, jars and drop cloths.
BYO lunch (Cafes nearby)
I will start each session with a demo and do several demos to develop the work during the day. We will have a 'show and tell and review' discussion at lunch time and another at 3pm to conclude the workshop.
To book in contact David Giles 0416079204 or davidgilesartist@hotmail.com
2025 Term 1 (6 week acrylic painting class with David Giles)
Intuitive Approaches to Painting; Abstraction and Landscape
@ Studio 11, 11 Captains Lane, Fremantle WA
IN PERSON (at Studio 11, 11 Captains Lane, Fremantle)
Session Times: Saturdays 10-1 or Saturdays 1.30-4.30 You choose one session to attend each week
Dates: 22 Feb - 12 April. No sessions 15 March or 22 March - Mid Term Break
(David Giles Retrospective: "30 Years of Painting" will be showing at Atwell Gallery 14-23 March)
$330 ($270 concession)
Includes access to 60 minutes of video of me discussing and demonstrating various painting techniques and processes
BYO art materials including acrylic paints, brushes and canvas. Any size canvas is fine. I recommend 60 x 60cm or 60 x 80cm or similar. We sell exhibition quality canvases, or you can bring your own. We provide palettes, easels, jars and drop cloths.
I will start each session with a demo. We will have a friendly and supportive 'show and tell' and 'review discussion' to conclude each workshop.
ONLINE - LIVE
Session Time: Fridays 1.30-4.30
Dates: 21 Feb - 11 April. No sessions 14 March or 21 March - Mid Term Break
(David Giles Retrospective: "30 Years of Painting" will be showing at Atwell Gallery 14-23 March)
$240 ($200 concession)
Includes access to 60 minutes of video of me discussing and demonstrating various painting techniques and processes
My mission in all my painting workshops and classes is to help you learn to let go, trust your intuition and allow your inner child out to play. For me this is true spiritual soul work.
I will start each session with a short demo. We will have a 'show and tell and review' discussion to conclude the workshop.
To book please contact David Giles 0416079204 or davidgilesartist@hotmail.com
2025 Term 1 (6 week "professional arts development" seminar with David Giles)
Learn to identify and become clear why you make your art, what your message is, what you want the viewer to see, feel, think, what makes you feel happy with your work ? What makes you feel unhappy with your work and how you can change it so you love it.
Over 6 weeks we will discuss these questions and ideas and more, in a series of 6 x two-hour seminars with the aim of you feeling clarity about why you paint and what you want achieve and how to get there.
ONLINE - LIVE
Session Time: Fridays 10-12
Dates: 21 Feb - 11 April
No sessions 14 March or 21 March - Mid Term Break
(David Giles Retrospective: "30 Years of Painting" will be showing at Atwell Gallery 14-23 March)
$240 ($200 concession)
Includes access to 60 minutes of video lectures and lecture notes
Please note this is a discussion tutorial not a painting class. Painting classes are available online -live (see above)
For all bookings
Contact David Giles 0416 079 204 or davidgilesartist@hotmail.com
These workshops, classes and seminars are great opportunities to work with an experienced artist to explore your artistic voice and purpose and develop your own direction in your work.
I have been teaching painting as a creative therapy process for nearly 30 years with more than a thousand people participating in my programs over that time. Whilst many have gone on to become multi award winning artists my main goal has always been to help people use creative processes to connect with their inner creative self and learn to become more free, authentic and fulfilled in their lives. As well as running my own private programs I have trained and worked for many years as an arts worker in the mental health field, working in various “creative therapy” processes based on positive psychology and transpersonal approaches. I have given talks at numerous forums about art and mental health including the Australian National Mental Health Conference and the WA Mental Health Commission.
In these workshops and courses I bring all this experience together, along with my success as a multi award winning exhibiting artist, to support you to use art to connect more deeply with your inner self, feel the bliss of pure creativity, and learn, through painting, to open your heart, let go and embrace the divine within, embrace the mystical, the wonderful and the enigmatic, “Inner Creative Self’ and see the beauty of nature through the wonder of the inner child.
I hope you will join me on this journey of self - discovery.
