Phillip Edwards Workshop is supported by Winsor & Newton you are welcome to browse and buy your materials with - up to 60% discount - thanks to Eckersley's Art and Craft!

Sketch and Flow Landscape

'.............I’m in love with how a painting can engage a viewer with just enough information for it to be read as a landscape.

Flows of watercolour washes overlayed with saturated mark making, pools over masked highlights all interwoven with drawn additions.

I’ve coined my style “scratchy technique”. This could be defined as a loose range of mark making techniques that add to create a painterly finished artwork.  Although a realist painter, accurate reproduction is not my main aim……enjoying the painting process with new approaches is. I say to students, “we aim for essence” of the imagery. So come and enjoy a new watercolour approach that aims for personal exploration and expressive freedom.

List of Materials and Paper - to Bring

** Please note | we will have the Art Suppliers with us - with their Trade Tables - so you will be able to buy materials at 'The Court House Cairns' and you won't have to carry them all as luggage!

As expected, please bring the watercolours paints that you own and any other addition colours specific to imagery will be made available.

• A wide range of brushes is great but please include a mid-size calligraphy brush and 1 inch basting brush. A spare size 10 round - soft bristle brush is required for modification. 
• Pencils: 2B/B Pencil mechanical pencil larger lead pencils like a builder’s pencil.
• Ink: Black Indian ink and fine nib pen/s
• Paper: Archers 300gsm hot pressed smooth x 2 A1 sheets

Board: MDF Smooth Surface 900mm x 600mm for Full Sheet If possible

Other: Towel, Masking tape 18mm/24mm, Water Pot, Paper towel, Spray Bottle, masking fluid.  

Phillip Edwards

Phillip Edwards is a Victorian artist who studied Fine arts painting (Oils) at the Victorian College of the Arts in the early 90’s. Over the past 6 years he has taken up watercolour, producing large scale majestic landscapes of Mt Buffalo (central Victoria) and currently southern Tasmania.

He was awarded the Trustees watercolour prize at the 2018 Wynne Prize and has since been made a member of the AWI Australian watercolour Institute.

He has been a finalist in many Australian art prizes including The Calleen, Flow and the Lester portrait prize at the Gallery of WA. Exhibiting Mt Buffalo paintings ‘The mountains quiet heart’ was his first public institution show via Benella Art gallery in 2020.   With 30 years art practice with multiple solo shows and group exhibitions he continues to refine both his painting and sculptural practice.  He has had 2 solo exhibitions in 2023 with Sydney (Art Atrium) in February and his first solo show with Australian Galleries in Melbourne in July. He also has a dedicated gallery at Bullarto (Bullarto Gallery) between Daylesford and Trentham in Victoria’s spa country.

Phillip is dedicated to the refinements of his watercolour technique and aims to lift the stature of the medium within the fine art world.

Refund Policy |

You can book your Workshop with confidence - knowing that we will refund the Workshop Fee - less $AUD10.00 Booking fee to cover bank and admin charges - provided we are notified in writing via our CONTACT FORM - dated one week prior to the commencement of the Australian Watercolour Muster Biennale - 2023 i.e. 30th August 2023.

Cancellations after this date will be refunded at 50% of the Booking Fee, and at the discretion of the Curator of the Australian Watercolour Muster - Wyn Vogel - depending on the critical circumstances and again notified in writing via our CONTACT FORM - with your phone number and details of the Workshop / Event you are wishing to cancel. A booking fee of $AUD10.00 will be applied to these late cancellations.