Author: Fern Smith

Fern Smith owns and manages FernArtz website since 1999. The website includes a family of artists: Joy Hester, Gray Smith, Peregrine Smith and myself. Fern Smith is a contemporary artist with her shop front art studio in Merlynston a small hamlet in Coburg North, Melbourne Australia 3058.
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moving landscape

“moving landscape” (circa 2008) by Fern Smith will be displayed at Coburg Town Hall foyer 90 Bell Street Coburg 3058  9am-5pm from he 3rd -30th March, celebrating IWD. “moving landscape”   is a ten panelled work 1 metre high and 7.6 metres wide. Below is one panel.

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Drawing Meditation Workshops for 2015

Fern-Smith-2009-FP“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”(Marcel Proust)
Drawing meditation workshops: The drawing meditation workshops is an opportunity to focus on and build on your art and conceptual ideas through giving space to sketch, draw in a contemplative and collective atmosphere of silence.
Four workshops
Eventbrite - Drawing Meditation
For annual
Eventbrite - Drawing Meditation Workshops

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Puppet Workshops “In search of lost time”

Fernartz_Pop_Up eventsThe workshops are an opportunity to explore with a artist, Fern Smith, the world of puppetry from shadow puppets to marionettes. Learning the art of puppet making brings together the art of craft, character development and art practice. The puppet maker will  make puppets from  Shadow puppet, to Marionettes. Bookings essential:Eventbrite - Puppet Making Workshops Class size: Up to six persons
Skill level: To be able to take instruction, work with sharp implements and when required work on your own.
Dates of workshops :Thursday 4.30 -5.30 pm on the days of:

Jan.
No classes		 Feb.
19th &  26th		 Mar.
5th, 12th & 26th		 Apr.
24th  &  30th		 May
7th, 21st & 28th		 Jun.
4th, 11th, 18th  & 25th
Jul.
16th, 23rd &  30th		 Aug.
6th & 13th		 Sept.
3rd   17th & 24th		 Oct.
8th , 15th, 22nd & 29th		 Nov.
5th 12th		 Dec.
No classes
Masters exhibition will be held in November on  Thursday 15th through to 23rd

Workshop pricing:
Four consecutive classes$60 ($15 per class)
Eight consecutive classes$120.00; ($15 per class and the opportunity to display your puppet at the end of year Masters exhibition in FernArtz studio)
Annual 28 classes: $280.00 ($10.00 per class and the opportunity display your puppet and put on a puppet show in the Masters exhibition at the end of the year.)

Materials: will be supplied. What to bring: A box or something suitable (like a hard suitcase) to take your work to and from the workshops.
 

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