Abstract Rhythms - Painting with Jacqueline Scotcher
Where: Ignite Studios - 60 Crane Street Ballina
Date: Sat 28 February 2026
Time: 9.30am - 1.00pm
Age: 16+
Cost: $180 (incl GST) tools and materials included
This workshop by exhibiting artist Jacqueline Scotcher will guide you through abstract drawing and acrylic painting techniques to create small experimental artworks on canvas. Using natural rhythms such as tides, local hinterland landscapes and daybreak as inspiration, you will explore how to take sensations into paint. Working in a way that lets a process unfold, rather than following a set plan, Jacqueline will demonstrate layering paint and colour, as she shares how ideas are generated in her practice.
Commencing with a gallery tour of Jacqueline’s NRCG exhibition Boundary Rider, this will be a friendly and inspiring workshop that leaves participants with practical skills and fresh inspiration to begin their own painting journey, or to incorporate into an existing practice.
Suitable for beginners and experienced painters alike. Please bring an apron or old shirt to wear.
Jacqueline Scotcher is a local artist whose studio practice is primarily abstract painting, working on themed series based around time, place and movement. She has presented solo exhibitions at Logan Art Gallery, Revival Art Gallery, Newstead Studios, Kick Arts Contemporary Arts Cairns, and Cairns Art Gallery, been selected as a finalist in the Wollumbin Art Prize, Lethbridge Landscape Prize, Byron Arts Magazine BAM Art Prize, and has commissioned work for Crystalbrook Art Series Hotel Cairns. Her art practice is studied as part of the QLD senior visual arts curriculum, and she holds a Doctorate in Philosophy (Creative Arts), Hons. Creative Industries and a Bachelor of Visual Arts.
Jacqueline Scotcher and Dane Scotcher’s exhibition Boundary Rider is on display at the Northern Rivers Community Gallery from 7 January to 1 March 2026.
For more information contact the Gallery on 02 6681 0530.
NRCG is a wheelchair accessible venue. Please contact us ahead of time if you have accessibility needs you would like us to be aware of.
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Image: NRCG Creative Workshop, 2023, image by Elise Derwin