Creativity serves something within all of us. It unfolds our innate wisdom and reveals truths while relaxing our nervous system. Considered and contemporary, artist Mike Armstrong exhibits his expressive art of human experience at Mandala Studio and offers hands-on, mindful, encouraging traditional art classes.
Art practice embodies present moment awareness. A process of looking at the world, seeing what is and making art without any attachment to outcomes. This discipline, repetition and mastery of exercise uncovers psychological, physical and spiritual truths as the creative process reveals authenticity.
Join us for opening night! 6pm - 8pm Friday 30 August at The Front Gallery & Cafe, Lyneham
Open, untutored life drawing classes during your work lunch break. Practice drawing from life, techniques, and develop your mindful observation skills in our stunning art studio.
Tuesdays at 12pm.
Regular life drawing classes that are humbly wholesome casual community gatherings too. Open untutored art classes providing a forum to practice drawing from life. Whole food nibbles provided.
First Friday of the month at 5:30pm.
A monthly series of events for all veterans and their families to gather, socialise, collaborate, create, share and connect on all things art.
A wonderful opportunity to share work in progress, finished works, ideas or concepts.
Held in grateful collaboration between Mandala Studio, Michael Armstrong Art and the Australian National Veterans Arts Museum (ANVAM).
Michael (Mike) Armstrong is artist and founder of Mandala Studio. He's a benevolent figurative artist, painter and art photographer passionate about the human form and humankind. He is a highly trained professional artist with a passion for creating unique, meaningful and inspiring pieces. Mike aims to convey a deep inner expression through his work rather than only describing the external form. He creates emotive allegories based on themes of love, loss, pain, shame and hope. His contemporary works draw on real-life situations, a wealth of literary sources as well as intensely personal, psychological symbolism.
Mandala Studio is Mike's art studio-gallery. He supports his community through the studio, his collections including Voices of Veterans and through Rogue BJJ Canberra. He is a proud Australian veteran and artist-in-residence at the University of Canberra. Mandala Studio is where he makes his incredible art and exhibits it all year round. He also offers art classes, sculpting from life courses, life drawing classes and traditional art classes in his art studio-gallery.
EMBARK Ground Unit 06
253 Northbourne Avenue Lyneham
Canberra, ACT Australia
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