By NICOLE VALICEK
A NEW event will encourage artists to utilise the natural environment in Hobsons Bay as inspiration to create their work.
“Draw and Explore – Pathways into Nature” will be held on Sunday 15 December at the Jawbone Marine Sanctuary in Williamstown.
Local artists Chris Rockley and Nancy Land will lead participants in a day of observation and drawing from afar and up close.
The event is an initiative of One Million Steps and Transition Hobsons Bay.
Transition Hobsons Bay initiating group member John Lawrence said the event would hopefully be the birth of a larger environmental art program.
“The aim of the program is to build a greater awareness of the local environments and how we should value and protect them,”
He said this would be achieved “by using the arts as a way of exploring a particular local natural site to gauge that understanding by getting people to look more carefully, to think more deeply, to understand the local environment and what a treasure it is.”
Mr Lawrence said the first event is open to anyone and everyone, regardless of artistic ability.
“It’s a great opportunity for local people from the Hobsons Bay area to learn more about their local natural environment, to enjoy an arts activity with two leading local artists and to have a lot of fun too.”
Artists Nancy Lang makes her work across several mediums and has exhibited her work around Melbourne.
She will take participants on a walk down the sanctuary boardwalk and guide them through the basics of drawing from nature.
Chris Rockely is a practising natural history artists and tutor specialising in marine life and botany.
Chris will help artists draw some of the smaller things you see on the boardwalk.
For booking and more info email Nancy Lang at fromherstudio@gmail.com
