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

THRESHOLDS
3pm-5pm AEST Saturdays
11 June – 26 August 2026
Further exploration of surfaces, transitions as threshold experiences. We work with meditative verses, Steiner’s Colour lectures. Advanced watercolour. Background video: A Contemplation on Surfaces as Interfaces to the Spirit

ART AS SCHOOLING:
DEEPENING THE WORK
5.00pm-6.30pm AEST Wednesdays Ongoing
A 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. For practising artists and art students.

Lemuria and Atlantis
2pm-4pm AEST Fridays
12 June-14 August 2026
The 2nd of three courses in the Masterclass series on the origins of our spiritual and earthly existence. We visit Lemuria and Atlantis in depth. Fortnightly classes, with selected lectures and sketches by Steiner.

Working with counter images & contradictions IN THE SOUL
TBA
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
TBA
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
4pm AEST Fridays monthly
Monthly online drawing and discussion workshops on the content of the First Class Lessons and the blackboard drawings, from the School of Spiritual Science. Class members only.

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