Past Courses and Projects
Painting masterclasses 2022-2023
Working with Steiner’s Nine Training Sketches for Painters
Working with Steiner’s Nine Training Sketches for Painters
Working with Steiner’s Colour Lectures: Image and Lustre
Working with Steiner’s Colour lectures: image and lustre colours
Working with Steiner’s Seven School Sketches: Further Training for the Artist
Working with Steiner’s Seven School Sketches – further training for the artist
Working with Steiner’s How to Know Higher Worlds through Art: Polarities, Complementaries and Counter Images
Complementaries and Counter Images: Working with Steiner’s How to Know Higher Worlds through Art
Working with Composition: Bringing Ego Organisation into Painting
Open painting workshops 2022-2023
What is lazure? And what is its purpose?
What is lazure? And what is its purpose?
What is veil painting? And why do we use it?
What is Veil Painting? And why do we use it?
Breathing through the night: a painting intensive for Winter
Artistic therapy painting wet-on-wet series over five evenings.
Breathing through the night: a painting intensive for Winter
Therapeutic painting for the 2nd half of life
Biographical work through painting
Photos from these workshops can be accessed here.
Evolving Consciousness series
Goetheanum motifs
Courses working with the motifs of the ceiling of the First Goetheanum to understand the anthroposophic approach to the spiritual history of humanity using chalk pastels.
Working with Steiner’s epoch motifs as a training for the ordering of the soul-life
Working with Steiner’s epoch motifs as a training for the ordering of the soul-life
The great Luciferic/Ahrimanic face-off series
Deepening the work of Steiner’s epochs motifs course.
The great Luciferic/Ahrimanic face-off
The great Luciferic/Ahrimanic face-off
Facing Our Shadow Self in the 6th Epoch
Facing Our Shadow Self in the 6th Epoch
The IAO Motif and the Foundation Stone Meditation
https://www.anthroposophyau.org.au/event/5577/
Phenomenology 2020-2023
Art Contemplation Series
The Two Jesus Children: A Pictorial Contemplation For Advent 2021
A reflection on the polarity in the duality of the Matthew and Luke gospels, Advent lecture for the Canberra Branch, Anthroposophical Society in Australia
The Two Marys: A Pictorial Contemplation For Advent 2021
The Empty Tomb: An Easter Contemplation, 2022
The Empty Tomb
Wonder Before the Face of God: An Advent Contemplation 2022
Wonder Before the Face of God: An Advent Contemplation
The Illumination: A Pictorial Contemplation For Easter 2023
The Illumination: A Pictorial Contemplation for Easter
Phenomenological research webinars
World Script webinars, with the Stream of Life Research Studio
Exploring the macro-, meso- and micro-dynamics of the World ether in Nature and Human Being
Reading The World Script: an introductory webinar
Reading The World Script: an introductory webinar
Enlivening The Script Within
Enlivening The Script Within
Deepening The Script In Daily Life
Deepening The Script In Daily Life
Goethean phenomenology as a cultural therapeutic
The Actuality of Rudolf Steiner: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Steiner in the 21stC
Hosted by Institute for Education and Social Innovation (ibugi), Alanus Hochschule.
Other phenomenology presentations
Goethean phenomenology as a cultural response to climate change
Breathing with the climate crisis – ecologically – socially – spiritually
A joint video presentation with Dr Fiona Campbell (Social Sciences) and Neil Anderson (Humanities, Syd Uni)
Agriculture and Youth Section
Goetheanum digital conference
11-14 February 2021
Workshopping Goethean phenomenology
Phenomenology and Climate Change: An Interdisciplinary Symposium
The Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, Sydney University
24-25 July, online
Inquiries: Ian Maxwell
Research as a path of professional and spiritual development
Lecture, St. John’s Group
19 November, Rudolf Steiner House
Where do new ideas really come from? Becoming a creative thinker
Visual presentation, Where do new ideas really come from? research project
2 October, Glenaeon School
Where do new ideas really come from? Understanding how creativity works
Presentation and workshop with experiential exercises and discussion,
Listening to our Time, Speaking to the Stars Conference
8-9 August, Emerson College, Forest Row, England
The role of the higher order thinking skills in learning development
Invited talk to the teachers for professional development
1 July, Orana School, Weston Creek, Canberra
Where do new ideas come from? Understanding how creativity works, Part 2
Invited talk to the Canberra Society, part of the Where do new ideas really come from? research project
1 May, Orana School, Weston Creek, Canberra
Where do new ideas come from? Understanding how creativity works, Part 1
Invited lecture and visual presentation
13 February, to the Canberra Society
Orana School, Weston Creek, Canberra
Cultural studies
A multimedia community project that aspires towards a contemporary envisioning of the famous medieval legend, one that recontextualises the Parsifal legend for a modern multicultural audience.
Parsifal Unpacked: Stage 1 of The Parsifal Project
Lecture/presentation course introducing the key themes of the story
Parsifal Unpacked: Stage 1 of The Parsifal Project
Parsifal Reimagined: Stage 2 of The Parsifal Project
Creative writing course using the key themes from Stage 1
Parsifal Reimagined: Stage 2 of The Parsifal Project
From the Wasteland to the Perilous Castle
Lecture and art contemplation, in The Human Journey series, a mid-Winter experience based on the story of Parzival’s struggles and encounters in life, hosted by the St John’s Group, Sydney.
From Wasteland to Grail Castle: the Soulscapes of Parzival
From Wasteland to Grail Castle: the Soulscapes of Parzival
The Quest: the soul’s search for the spirit
An artistic journey through the mythical and modern quest
Major Mural Projects
2006 Foyer Mural, 9now obsolete) Warrah Village, Dural, NSW
Foyer Mural and lazure for school hall foyer and corridors (110 sq.m.)
Warrah Village is a centre for people with disabilities.
2005 Te Ra Mural, Te Ra School, Raumati South, NZ.
Mural and Lazure for school hall and foyer (120 sq.m.)
Te Ra is a Steiner School located on the west coast of the north island.
2003-5 Residential complex, Inala Centre, Cherrybrook, NSW
Colour design and lazure, interior walls in 7 rooms, (200 sq.m.)
Inala is a centre for people with disabilities.
2004 Night and Dream-Day, Lesley Evans Hall, Inala Centre, Cherrybrook, NSW
Two murals in school hall, (28 sq.m.)
2003 Sunlit Tree Pohl Cottage, Inala, Cherrybrook, NSW
Mural and interior design (35 sq.m.)
2003 Sky and Earth Mural, Inala Administration block, Cherrybrook, NSW
Stairwell mural (46 sq.m.)
2003 Social Room, Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex St, Sydney,NSW
Lazure, two-colour chord interior, 100 sq. m)
1999 Foyer mural, Christophorus House Retirement Village, Hornsby, NSW
Colour design and lazure (30 sq. m)
1997 Chapel and Vigil Murals, Sterriwijer Hospital (now obsolete), Belgium
Altar image for hospital chapel, mural for hospital vigil room (60 sq.m total)
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