Artist Basia Zielinska invites participants to create their own artist book. Participants will be exploring mark making techniques and will create and take home their own unique art book.

This workshops is open to all levels of expertise, however no previous art experience is necessary. This workshop is only suitable for participants over the age of 16.

Come and discover with Basia’s guidance your unique, painterly “handwriting” as you venture into an intuitive, abstract painting experience.

Most of Basia’s expressive, abstract paintings begin with a wide range of marks, using a variety of mark making tools on her canvas or artist paper.

Basia will demonstrate how to make these marks, trust your unique, “artist handwriting” on a full size quality sheet of Fabriano artist paper.

You may choose to use pencils, graphite pens, felt tip pens, brushes and acrylic paints to make intuitive marks. Basia will talk about a monochromatic palette and a complementary colour palette.

When you have painted your sheet of paper, Basia will demonstrate how to fold it, and cut it, creating a gorgeous artist book from a single sheet of paper.

After folding you may choose to make some more marks, or “paint out” some areas.

Artist books are an absolute joy to create and you may leave them just as they are or perhaps write in your favourite inspirational sayings or perhaps poems.

Basia Zielinska (b. 1947 Leer) is a Sydney-based abstract artist of Polish heritage. Her body of work responds intuitively and emotionally to fragments of memories, as well as images of internal and external landscapes. Basia has exhibited in numerous group exhibitions, and in 2017 held her first solo exhibition at the ME Art Gallery. She was invited by the Polish Consulate in Sydney to exhibit her oeuvre. Basia has been a finalist and recipient of multiple Art Prizes, and her works can be found in many private collections internationally. 

26 April 2025, 10:00am

Amber Private Dining Room

Polish Club Ashfield 182 Liverpool Road Ashfield NSW 2131