Nicole Bowller

Really excited to be teaching my new eight week course DRAWING TO PAINTING at @fitzroypainting starting April 9th weekly from 2-5pm. For beginners, or anyone interested in the rich cross-over between drawing and painting, this course explores foundational drawing techniques in charcoal, pencil and ink before introducing my favourite medium, gouache, to explore basic colour mixing and theory, paint application, brush handling, as well as controlling opacity, layering and blending. We’ll also discuss the endless possibilities of drawing, and my particular passion, how a sketch can evolve into a painting. By looking at historical and contemporary artists, as well as completing exercises in composition, value and scale, in the last two weeks participants will be led through the process of transforming their own sketch or reference photo into a gouache painting. There are still a few spots left if you would like to join. I will also be teaching a one day course INTRODUCTION TO GOUACHE on July 25th at @fitzroypainting if you would like to learn more about gouache.

This little monotype is also included in the ‘Women of the Badlands’ group exhibition at @montsalvatartscentre with @baldessinstudio The opening was buzzing on Friday night, huge congratulations to curators @amandagrant_studio and @_eleanor_j_ for bringing together over sixty female artists from across Nillumbik! Showing in the Barn Gallery at @montsalvatartscentre until March 1 ‘Wooloweyah study’, 2026 Monotype 325 x 230mm $400 This study, part of an on-going series, is a technical exploration of the fluid brush and mark-making made possible when creating a monotype, a printmaking technique in which one unique state is pulled, capturing the spontaneous pooling of the water/pigment and the clarity of the brush strokes. #workonpaper #printmaking #monotype #painting #gouache #melbourneartist #art #womenofthebadlands #montsalvat @delphiangallery #delphianopencall2026

Delighted to be showing one of these recent monotypes with Baldessin Studio in the upcoming ‘Women of the Badlands’ group exhibition at @montsalvatartscentre curated by @amandagrant_studio and @_eleanor_j_ celebrating the contemporary creative outlanders from Nillumbik’s artistic incubators. OPENING THIS FRIDAY 6-8pm 5 Feb - 1 March, Montsalvat ‘Humidity I & II’, 2026 Monotype 320 x 445mm $550 each ‘The air is dense and heavy in summer on the mid north coast of Australia. And the vibrant colours of the foliage are intoxicating, especially when contrasted with the dry, muted summer tones of Nillumbik, The Badlands.’ Printed at @baldessinstudio #art #worksonpaper #monotype #printmaking #womenofthebadlands #exhibition #montsalvat #gouache #melbourneartist #artist #australianartist @delphiangallery #delphianopencall2026

Exploring monotypes in gouache Absolutely loving the crossover of painting and printmaking with monotypes (one-off unique state prints). Such a freedom in the mark-making, and I love how all the brush marks and details are translated in the print. Thank you so much to @augustcarpenter for her printmaking expertise and guiding me through the process ❤️ Printed @baldessinstudio #gouache #monotype #printmaking #painting #worksonpaper #art #australianartist

Summer holiday painting 🌞 #gouache #worksonpaper #contemporaryart #pleinair #pleinairpainting #art

It was such a thrill and privilege to teach in @lloydgodman greenhouse in October at @baldessinstudio 💚 What better place to spend a weekend drawing! So much great work came out of it, I loved watching the artists draw and create in amongst the bromeliads. It has really fed my creative spirit and work back in my own studio, so grateful to everyone who came along, such a great group of artists. I’ll be running this workshop again in April next year, can’t wait! #drawingworkshopmelbourne #baldessinstudio #drawing #artworkshop #pleinair #ink #inkonpaper #lloydgodman #bromeliad #art 📷 myself & @augustcarpenter

Nicole Bowller's 'Slow Looking — Drawing from Place' Plein Air Workshop was held at the studio recently, and what a weekend it was! With six students in the exquisite and extraordinary greenhouse of the late Lloyd Godman, the weekend saw a series of fast and unusual drawing exercises as well as a suite of large scale collaborative drawings, which you can see us working on in this reel! We worked with pencil, graphite, ink and watercolour and Nicole awed us all with her technical knowledge, generosity and enthusiasm for the art of slowly looking and documenting our surrounds. Nicole will be back next year to run this workshop again on the 25th & 26th of April 2026 — you can book in already online! Workshop Teacher: @nicole_bowller Workshop Assistant: @augustcarpenter Drawings by @kershawkat @pamelaufrench @hails.robert @huliapril and Sharon

PRINT RELEASE ‘Let my gardens speak for me when I am gone (I-XI)’, 2025 Reduction linocut 300gsm Somerset paper 225 x 225 / 333 x 395mm $250 each (unframed) For more details please see my website (link in bio) This set of works on paper, part of my larger series ‘Avant Gardener’, takes it’s title from the stunning lyrics/poetry of @emoryhall While processing grief and loss as I created in the greenhouse of my late friend, the ecological artist @lloydgodman , I deeply pondered legacy - what do we each leave behind? What a gift to the world to leave a garden, a living, breathing entity.

Lloyd’s greenhouse is such a special place, especially to draw, paint and be inspired in. And you can join me there this October! I am thrilled to be running an immersive weekend drawing workshop at @baldessinstudio in the ethereal greenhouse of the late @lloydgodman SLOW LOOKING – DRAWING FROM PLACE A TWO-DAY ‘EN-PLEIN AIR’ WORKSHOP OCTOBER 18-19, 10am - 4pm, $650 In this workshop we will explore the practice of working en-plein air, closely observing nature through a series of drawing and painting exercises and experiments recording our impressions of light, colour, form and place. Over the weekend we will build a rich set of personal recordings and observations and discuss the ways in which these can be used to create a body of work after the weekend. I can’t wait! For more information, click the link in my bio or visit .au #baldessinstudio #workshop #drawingworkshop #melbourneart #contemporaryart #drawing #art #tillandsia #slowlooking #greenhouse #bromeliad

I’ve been putting the finishing touches on the last works in my series ‘Avant Gardener’; a collection of reduction lino cuts printed on the beautiful Albion Press at @baldessinstudio For first access to these new prints and news of my upcoming drawing workshop please subscribe to my mailing list - see link in bio or simply DM me your email. I can’t wait to release this little collection online, I loved exploring a multitude of colour combinations with a limited palette on the press. 📷 Images 1, 4, 5 captured by @augustcarpenter #printmaking #linocut #reductionlinocut #worksonpaper #australianart #contemporaryart #artist #art #melbourneart #studio #drawingworkshop #tillandsia #greenhouse #albionpress

The doors are open and we are so excited to welcome you to our studio this weekend! Baldessin Studio Open Weekend — May 24th & 25th 2025 As part of Melbourne Design Week 2025, join us this weekend in St Andrews for a weekend of printmaking demos, tours, exhibitions and behind-the-scenes access to our bushland studio! What's on: • Guided tours of the Baldessin Studio and Artists Accommodation • Technical showcases & demonstrations by studio artists (etching, photogravure, relief & mokulito) • Explore our workshop programme • An exhibition of artist books • An exhibition of reflective work in the remarkable tillandsia greenhouse of the late Lloyd Godman Experience traditional and contemporary printmaking in action, connect with our creative community and discover the history behind the Baldessin Studio. For more information, and to explore the weekends program in full, please visit our website or through the link in our bio. Melbourne Design Week is an initiative of the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria. #MelbourneDesignWeek #NGV @ngvmelbourne

I’ve been getting quite the workout pulling a series of reduction linocuts on the beautiful Albion Press at @baldessinstudio over the past few weeks. I’m loving the immediacy of being able to test a multitude of colour combinations and compositions through the reduction linocut process, exploring the filtered light of the greenhouse contrasted with delicate lines of the Tillandsia. These prints will be on display this weekend at @baldessinstudio as part of @ngvmelbourne #melbournedesignweek Come and visit 10am - 5pm to see the studio in action with a series of talks and demonstrations across the weekend. @leaflovinart and I will be working in @lloydgodman greenhouse, with an opening celebration in the greenhouse on Sat 24th at 4pm. I will also be doing a demonstration pulling a number of prints from this series at 12noon on Sunday. Hope to see you there! #linocut #printmaking #reductionlinocut #melbournedesignweek #openstudio #melbourneart #contemporaryart #art #tillandsia #greenhouse #ink #worksonpaper #baldessinstudio