Date: Saturday 7th February 2025, 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Venue: The Gallery at Green & Stone
Tickets: £55
‘Bold Horizons’
Initiate your practice in the expressive medium of Oil pastel this winter, with expert guidance from Luana Asiata, to discover the power of bold colour, expressive mark-making, and textured layers in this intensive workshop. Over three creative hours, you’ll learn how to transform real or imagined landscapes into vibrant abstract works on paper. Step-by-step, Luana will guide you through composition, colour and value choices, and my signature techniques for building depth, movement, and emotion with oil pastels.
No experience is needed — just curiosity, a love for colour, and a willingness to explore your own creative voice.
Walk away with a finished artwork, new skills, and the confidence to continue your abstract landscape journey.
Your Ticket includes an introductory set of Van Gogh Oil Pastels, so that you may continue your practice!
All levels are welcome.
All art materials are provided by Green & Stone.
About Luana Asiata
Originally from New Zealand, London-based artist Luana Asiata embarked on a remarkable journey back to her artistic roots amidst the tumultuous landscape of the 2020 pandemic. After dedicating precious years to nurturing her young family, Asiata rekindled her passion for art, unveiling a debut collection of fine art prints inspired by nature at Design Led trade show ‘Top Drawer’ in 2020 where she won runner-up in the New Designer to Watch category. She was shortlisted twice for the prestigious Royal Academy London Summer Exhibition in 2021 and 2022, respectively. The year 2023 earned her accolades such as being shortlisted for the Women in Art prize and winning the Merit Award at the esteemed Hampstead Summer Art Fair.
Luana Asiata works primarily in a semi abstract expressionist style, she employs gestural brushstrokes, utilising oils and acrylics to convey her innermost emotions onto the canvas, taking inspiration from nature, architecture, travels and memories of her home in New Zealand.
Beyond the realm of traditional exhibitions, Luana’s artistic vision extends to collaborative endeavours with interior designers. Notably, she was commissioned by the esteemed interior and design studio Johnson Naylor to create 17 bespoke works for their client ‘Lendlease’ at the ‘Hawksbury Heights’ Elephant & Castle Residential Development. She works from her home studio in South London.
To learn more about Luana, please visit her website here.
