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

Surfaces as Interfaces to the Spirit
3pm-5pm AEDT Saturdays
7 March – 2 May
An advanced watercolour course working with surfaces and transitions as a portals to the spiritual world. We work closely with Steiner’s Colour lectures and training sketches.

ART AS A Path:
DEEPENING THE WORK
5pm-6.30pm AEST Wednesday
11 June-20 August
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.

From Cosmos to Earth
2pm-4pm AEDT Fridays
13 February- 8 May
The first of three courses in the Masterclass series on the origins of our spiritual and earthly existence. We begin with Old Saturn, end at Lemuria. Seven fortnightly sessions, accompanied by selected lectures and sketches by Steiner.

Working with counter images & contradictions IN THE SOUL
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.

Working with composition:
THE ‘I’ AS ORGANISER
Coming September 2026
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
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 September 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.