Hi there… here is the hive teaching schedule has just been added to … now all workshops are posted until the end of MAY 2012!  Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions: andrea – 519-323-3437.  The hive is in the Alton Mill Creative Arts Centre, near Orangeville, ON  www.altonmill.ca Workshops include full day, two day, [...]

 It is so great teaching at the hive in Alton, that we’ve extended our lease until the end of the year… so now the new schedule is up and there are some new classes!  Check out Encaustic 4 and 5! To check out the Alton Mill: www.altonmill.ca – adult and child half-day workshop – half-day introduction [...]

 Home again home again but there is part of me that is still riding my bike through the dunes, wandering the halls of the Hotel Fair (great work!), and taking in so much learning over the three days that the Conference was on.   This is the 5th Annual Conference organized by Joanne Mattera, this year [...]

 Home from the 5th Annual Encaustic Conference and ready to talk about it on the radio tomorrow in an interview!  www.toginet.com and click on ‘listen live’ to find out about encaustic painting, the wonderful contemporary artists that use this luscious medium and how much I love it… interview takes place on Wed. June 8th at [...]

Join us this weekend, and next (April 30, May 1st, 7th and 8th @ the Alton Mill (www.altonmill.ca) for Spring Awakenings, their yearly celebration of this time of year… there will be hands-on ‘Give it a Whirl!’s  in the hive (studio 201)… with me at 11am, noon, 1pm and 3 pm each day.  I will give [...]

Spring has delayed coming with this recent snow storm… but there is lots of new growth at the hive in Alton, ON!  Workshops that have never existed before are available for all levels of experience.  I’m so excited to be offering Encaustic 3 and 4 now… with many advanced techniques.  There is still room in the [...]

 New Schedule with exciting, never-before-offered workshops and courses!   In response to the demand, there is now an Encaustic 4  and half-day introductory courses to encaustic, a parent/child workshop and the usual Encaustic 1, 2 & 3.  Phew!  Looks like it’s gearing up to be a busy and interesting year… please contact me if you have any [...]

Here is a detail of one of our new ‘composite  series’: contemplation… we did this series in collaboration, ”we” would be Daniel Beirne and  Andrea Bird.  Hours:  Open every weekend from 11am til 5pm until the end of Feb. (excluding Feb. 20/11)  or by appointment: 519-323-3437 or 519-323-7611 (cell).  Image of wall: the four new pieces [...]

  On Thanksgiving weekend, the second workshop took place at the hive, and it was another wonderful day of exploration.  We have so much to be thankful for: the community of artists at the Mill, the beautiful surroundings and river rushing by, the colours of the trees this year, and our warm, vibrant new teaching [...]

Five-day workshops at Wellington County Museum &  The Southampton School of Art: Plans underway for Summer 2011… July 4-8 @ Wellington County Museum, and in August @ Southampton!  (Dates to be announced.)  Just added… workshops at Meta4 Gallery/art school in March 2011, in Port Perry, ON. See workshops coming up this autumn at The Alton [...]