Welcome To My Students Gallery!
Here are some photos of works my students have done. Many of these students are still currently working with me and I take great pleasure in sharing their works and achievements with you.
Stephanie Muldoon
Stephanie has been with me for over a year now. Here are two of her favourite works …
Old bridge - Stephanie Muldoon
Old bridge is an oil painting – a great success for Stephanie.
The next – Dragonflies, completed in late 2011, was an experimental foray into using textured surfaces. This painting led to Stephanie’s first commission!
Dragonflies - Stephanie Muldoon
Steve Alison
Steve has been with me for about 5 years now. He is a screen printer by trade and has developed his own wonderful style during the time we have worked together. Lonely Castle was the first work we did together.
Lonely Castle - Steve Allison
When he first came to me he was working on quite small canvasses and doing pretty traditional kind of stuff. He now works exclusively with a palette knife , building up thick layers of paint and creating very magical, subtle effects .
Tree, Leaf, Pond - Steve Alison 2011©
Tree, Leaf, Pond took Steve over a year to complete and is a painstaking work completed using water soluble oils and a palette knife.
Stephanie Lewis
Stephanie stared with me last year 2009 and this is I about her 5th work with I think. She is currently working in pastels , and has copied the work from one of Richard Schmidts works. Richard is one of my favourite artists – This was a very ambitious attempt on her part for tow reasons. One it was her first portrait and two she was copying from an oil painting, a different medium which in itself presents technical challenges. She has done an excellent job.
Portrait of a Young Man: Stephanie Lewis after -Richard Schmidt
The next work is also a pastel, which she copied from a painting also. The big challenge here was that there was not a lot of detail in the source material. Stephanie however has lived and breathed horses for many years and she has an instinctive understanding of how they move and look. We can see the impact of this in the way she has represented the spirit of the horse in her work.
Wild Eyed Beauty - Stephanie Lewis
This year in August there was great excitment as Stephanie was the winner of the People’s Choice Award for 2010 in the Fabulous Fakes Art Prize.
Woman Combing Her Hair -Stephanie Lewis -after Degas
Phoebe Chung
Phoebe is a relatively new student with me and has only just completed her very first Oil Painting. This is a beautiful copy of a pastel work. Nasturtiums.
Nasturtiums - Phoebe Chung
Jo Hawkins
Jo is another watercolour gal – and has tried out several different techniques with me since beginning early last year 09. Here are some examples of her work. The first one is a copy after one of Roland Roycraft’s work from the book Fill Your Watercolors With Light and Color
In the Forest - after Roland Roycraft
Another work by Jo was inspired by Mike Ward from The New Spirit of Watercolor.
Beautiful Butterfly - after Mike Ward
And last but certainly not least is her latest work – hot off the press so to speak – and we were very excited about it because this is her first attempt at something completely on her own without me standing over her shoulder making useful comments! So well done Jo
Sunday Walk ©2010 Jo Hawkins
Susan Wilkinson
Red Tulip ©2010 Sue Wilkinson - Watercolour
Sue started with me not long ago – she was a complete beginner and has progressed with the difficult medium of water colours very quickly – have a look at what she is doing.
Deborah Lhota
Deborah has been working with me for about 18 months. Her and Stephanie are friends and began about the same time. She began with learning the fundamentals in charcoal drawing and progressed to pastels. Here are two of yer most recent works, and as you can see she has reached a high standard. This week – Aug 2010 – she began her first oil painting with me and is tackling an ambitious copy of a pointillist work.
Here are her beautiful pastel paintings.
La toilette after: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Deborah Lhota (Pastel)
Pink Tulip: Deborah Lhota 2010 (Pastel)
Deborah Lhota
At last, I have discovered art classes that suit me perfectly. Kadira Jennings is a very skilled and experienced artist and has an extraordinary ability to bring out the creative best in her students. Although I have always had an interest in art, creating a finished product I was happy with seemed to elude me.
Kadira provides personalized tuition, small classes and individual attention. This means that my artistic skills have progressed in leaps and bounds in a relatively short period of time – something I was not expecting when I started.
I am now producing art works I feel happy to frame and hang on the walls in my own home.
I thank Kadira for her special combination of artistic ability, persistence, patience and lovely personality. She has helped me to open my eyes to creativity, providing a comfortable, fun environment in which it can safely blossom.
I thoroughly recommend Kadira Jennings to anyone interested in pursuing their creative side.
Deborah Lhota
Director
Advanced Holistic Research Pty Ltd
Sue Wilkinson -31 March 2010
I have been an art student of Kadira Jennings for the past six months. I have not participated in any art form since leaving school just over 40 years ago. Kadira is teaching me to paint with watercolours. I love the soft translucent, as well as the strong colours watercolours offers. I have found the classes Kadira offers have opened my eyes to everything around me. Kadira’s love and enthusiasm for all mediums of art, shows through in her expertise of teaching.
The small friendly classes allow for a substantial amount of individual attention. Her subtle guidance is warm and friendly allowing one to feel confident to express yourself. Each time I leave class I feel as though I have achieved and learnt something new and can’t wait for the next session. I feel very confident in recommending Kadira’s art classes.
Jo Hawkins – April 2010
I have been painting with Kadira for a year now.
In that time I have gone from a complete novice to having developed a sound understanding of the colour and the techniques required for watercolour.
Kadira is a wonderful teacher, very encouraging but offering welcomed constructive criticism. Her eye for detail is incredible. Although I still have much to learn I feel that when I do pick up my brush now I do so with confidence.
I took a peak and was impressed. Your students are talented! My reason for contact is for work as Model- nude or other wise. I am in my forties and have a fuller figure, long hair and live locally. If you are at all interested please contact me for further discussions.
AM