Live Demo - Insights into the Creative Practice | Herman Pekel

About this event

This is a rare opportunity to come and enjoy two hours at this live oil painting demonstration with one of the world’s best landscape master painters. You will meet and be entertained by a great artist sharing his knowledge and talent with you.

Who is this workshop suitable for?

Everyone is welcome! This is a seated event with strictly limited numbers.

What do I need to bring?

Nothing at all. But you're welcome to bring a notepad and any questions for the artist!

What is provided?

• A glass of wine on arrival
• A friendly, supportive and encouraging learning environment
• Connection to the Bienarté art community

Meet Herman Pekel

Herman Pekel was born to Dutch parents in Melbourne, Victoria in 1956. Herman was the winner of the Camberwell Rotary Watercolour prize in 1993 and was previously three times a finalist in Camberwell’s Travel Scholarship Award, winner of the 1989 Camberwell Watercolour Prize and also the Travel Study Scholarship in 1989. He has also won many other awards, including the Camberwell Rotary Art Show’s Best Oil in 2004, the Camberwell Rotary Watercolour prize in 1989, 1993, 1995 and 2006, the Camberwell Rotary Travel Scholarship in 1989, and in 1989 and 1993 he won the Alice Bale Award. In 1994 the National Taiwan Art Institute asked Herman to participate in a book and travelling exhibition with selected artists from Australia, USA and Taiwan.

Herman exhibits his work regularly in the USA.

His works are featured in the books “Australian Impressionist and Realist Artists” which features Australian Artists and was compiled by Tom Roberts, “120 Years of Watercolourists”, by the Australian Realist Artists, “Artists and Galleries of Australia and New Zealand” by Max Germaine and “Profile on Contemporary Watercolours”.