#GreatNewsThursday – Flood Recovery Painting Workshops a success

1 Aug 2024
Inspiring creativity in Euroa! Our young artists, ages 10-18, are enjoying a fantastic painting workshop with the talented Philip Hickingbotham.

Strathbogie Shire hosted another two very successful painting workshops with a grant from the Disaster Recovery Funding jointly supported by the Australia and Victorian governments.

The paint workshops were held at the Third Age Club in early July.  The two sessions catered for participants 13y and above and another workshop specifically for 10y – 18 years.

Tutor and professional artist Philip Hickingbotham guaranteed each participant that they would go home with a painting of gum trees reflected in floodwaters – highlighting the profound impact that water and especially floods has had on our Strathbogie community.

This was the second series of paint workshops under Philip Hickingbotham’s tutelage.

Administrator for Strathbogie Shire Peter Stephenson said the interest in these workshops shown by our Strathbogie residents indicated that our residents like to express themselves through creative arts.

“We were so encouraged by having Philip Hickingbotham who has undertaken four fabulous painting workshops for us now.

“His guidance and his connection to aspects of water be it floods or just rivers helped our participants to create their own story,” he said.

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Celebrating artistic achievements at the Euroa Painting Workshop. Participants proudly display their final artworks, created under the guidance of artist Philip Hickingbotham.
Inspiring creativity in Euroa! Our young artists, ages 10-18, are enjoying a fantastic painting workshop with the talented Philip Hickingbotham.