Advanced courses
Advanced courses and masterclasses for professional practice or the Schooling course, second year.

Working with counter images & contradictions IN THE SOUL
Enrolments closed for 2025
Next course: Term Two 2026
A Schooling course based on Steiner’s How to Know Higher Worlds, focusing on the sun, moon and plant motifs. Wet-on-dry painting, archetypal polarities, and meditation.

ART AS Path of SCHOOLING:
DEEPENING THE WORK
5pm-6.30pm AEST Wednesday
11 June-20 August 2025
A Schooling study group on approaches and techniques for deepening the soul/spiritual aspects of art in light of Steiner’s vision for a new artistic impulse. Textual study and drawing.

The MIchaelIC mystery
2pm-4pm AEST Fridays
12 September-21 November
Working with themes from Rudolf Steiner’s Michael lectures, particularly Michaelmas, with painting and pastel drawing. A Masterclass course for people with anthroposophic and painting background.

Lucifer and AHRIMAN – AND THE CHRIST BETWEEN
2pm-4pm AEST Fridays
13 June-22 August 2025
Masterclass painting course working with Steiner’s different motifs of Lucifer and Ahriman and their meaning for our times. Watercolour and pastel with textual study.

Working with composition:
THE ‘I’ AS ORGANISER
13 September-6 December 2025
An exploration of the role of composition in painting in relation to the ego or “I”as the organiser of our soul life, through painting, drawing and art history observation. The health-giving effects of working consciously with the principles of the fourfold human being underpins this final Schooling course.

THE INNER NATURE OF COLOUR
Enrolments closed for 2025
Next course: Term One 2026
This painting course introduces Steiner’s 7 image and lustre colours from his Colour lectures. Knowledge of Goethe’s Theory of Colour or equivalent and watercolour skills recommended. A Schooling course.

Working with thresholds
Coming June 2026
Our human life moves and breathes between thresholds: macrocosm and microcosm, waking and sleeping, birth and death. This masterclass works with the thresholds in our lives and in nature, through polarities and the breathing impulse.

Working ARTISTICALLY with
the FIRST Class Lessons
8am or 4pm Fridays monthly
Monthly online drawing and discussion workshops on the content of the First Class Lessons, particularly the blackboard drawings, from the School of Spiritual Science. For Class members only.

Exploring our spiritual history through drawing
Coming 2026
A unique journey through our spiritual history using pastel drawing. From our primeval beginnings to today, we capture something of the ‘quiver’ of past consciousness with Steiner’s epoch motifs.