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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 me, David Giles for one of my 1 Day Workshops at Studio 11 in Fremantle (or on line) or join one of my 5 Day Retreats at the Greenhills Art Centre near York.

“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 painting workshops with David Giles (In Person)
"Mystical Seascapes using blended Colour Field Techniques"
 
 
Date: Saturday 12th July 2025
Venue: Atwell House & Gallery, 586 Canning Highway, Alfred Cove 
Time: 10-4
Cost: $160
 
To book in phone or text me, David Giles on 0416 079 204 or email davidgilesartist@hotmail.com
 
"Impressionistic Landscapes using repetitive mark making techniques"
 
Date: Saturday 19th July 2025
Venue: Atwell House & Gallery, 586 Canning Highway, Alfred Cove 
Time: 10-4
Cost: $160
 
To book in phone or text me, David Giles on 0416 079 204 or email davidgilesartist@hotmail
6 week class with David Giles (In person or on line)
 “Painting as Therapy:
A personal approach to landscape painting”
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Dates: 16/23/30 August 6/13/20 September 2025
In Person Venue: Atwell House & Gallery, 586 Canning Highway, Alfred Cove
Day / Times: Saturdays 2-5
Cost: $330 
On line using Zoom 
Day/Times: Fridays 10-1 or 2-5 Perth Time
Cost; $240​
In this class we will use three different techniques to create three different types of landscapes.
Weeks 1 and 2 we will use blended colour field techniques to create mystical seascapes.
Weeks 3 and 4 we will use repetitive/lyrical mark-making techniques to create impressionistic landscapes.
Weeks 5 and 6 we will use gestural expressive mark-making techniques to create abstract / expressive landscapes.  
 
 To book in phone or text me, David Giles on 0416 079 204 or email davidgilesartist@hotmail.com
    
General info about workshops and classes and David Giles 
BYO art materials including acrylic paints, brushes and a canvas to paint on. any size is fine.
 
Exhibiting for 30 years I have 20 art awards and 55 solo exhibitions to my name. I have been teaching for more than 20 years.
 
​I will start each session with a demo> for 1 Day workshops I will do another demo after lunch. We will have a 'show and tell and review' discussion at the end of each class and at lunch time and end of the workshop to conclude 1 Day workshops.​
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​​My mission in all my painting workshops and retreats 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.
 
These classes and workshops 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.

 
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