PHOTOS 2025

Enjoy browsing through the photos of the various joyful events held at Maria Kaye's Art Studio112.
Events for 2025 are listed on the DATES page.

"Blossoms & Bees" Spring Watercolour Workshop (3 hours)
6 and 20 September 2025

Two watercolour workshops were held (one on the 6th and one on the 20th of September) at my Libradene art studio. In keeping with the theme, sparkling transparent layers of Daniel Smith watercolours were used to capture the delicate, fresh spirit of Spring.  Enjoy browsing through photos of the workshops and reading the feedback below.

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"Thank you once again for a most enjoyable session today!! Loved the 'Spring' title of your painting class!! Looking forward to the next class. (Rita)

"Mixing colours for just the correct shade and using little drops to drag, forming petals. Interesting!" (Deliana)

"An amazing, relaxing and joyful experience as always. Thank you Maria for letting us experiance such joy and for pushing our own boundaries xxx" (Marisa)

"Hi Maria, what a great privilege to be in an art class with you. Thank you for your patience and excellent teaching! I look forward to attending again in the new year!" (Joan)

"Maria, thank you for Saturday's class. We enjoyed it very much!" (Magda & Lianie)

"The Spring flower workshop was the best paint class of the year as I loved the colours!" (Carol)

"Winter in the City" Watercolour Workshop (3 hours)
2 August 2025

The lively “Winter in the City” workshop on 2 August was so much fun, despite a wide-spread day-long power outage affecting most of Boksburg. I introduced some interesting, non-traditional techniques that kept the participants on their toes!   Enjoy browsing through photos of the workshop and reading the feedback below.

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"Thank you for your lovely class this morning, Maria! I really like that technique! And always enjoy your classes." (Marijke)

"Maria, you are so professional and caring. It's a treat to attend your workshops." (Barbara)

"A new challenge and different to all our other classes, yet very inspirational and fascinationg to learn more on how the watercolour paints react. Always a surprise and lots of fun." (Carol)

"I enjoyed the Winter in the City workshop. Only the second one I attended but I have learnt so much and have been encouraged to explore watercolour painting more." (Min)

"A different class, new techniques and focus on light and shade in a gloomy wintery street. Interesting!" (Deliana)

Open Studio Weekend
21 &22 June 2025

The Open Studio weekend (21 & 22 June 2025) was a wonderful, joyful occasion, with a steady trickle of friends popping in to browse, eat, drink, chat, view and purchase art, and buy raffle tickets, coasters, licence disc stickers and loaves of delicious fresh ciabatta bread. Enjoy looking through photos of the event below.  

"Autumn Landscape" Watercolour Workshop 2 (3 hours)
26 April 2025
"And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul" (John Muir)

Seven lovely people got in the Autumn mood with "colours red and gold", and yellow, purple, orange and a mixture of them all to paint an impressionistic leafy forest. We used the side of the paintbrush to create interesting leaf textures by twisting and dragging the brush across the page. Dappled light-and-shade patterns were achieved with transparent layers of various colours and splattering. It was a rather messy lesson, which only added to the fun of the day!  

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"Today's class was great. Each time I come for a class I learn more about techniques. Your classes are such fun, even when my picture is not going the way I want it to!" (Natalie)

"Thank you, Maria, for another excellent, enjoyable workshop. You guided us to create a beautiful autumn forest landscape while we learned exciting techniques. I love the texture that we created in our painting. Your workshops are always so relaxing and fun." (Ronel) 

"I had an enjoyable and fruitful day at the workshop and looking forward to the next one." (Stephen)

"Thanks Maria. I enjoyed the morning and learnt a lot." (Min) 

"Thanks Maria, for the class this morning ...loved it and yet another new technique ...amazing! beautiful colours too! (Marijke) 

"Autumn Landscape" Watercolour Workshop 1 (3 hours)
12 April 2025
A fantastic group of people got in the Autumn mood with "colours red and gold", and yellow, purple, orange and a mixture of them all to paint an impressionistic leafy forest. We used the side of the paintbrush to create interesting leaf textures by twisting and dragging the brush across the page. Dappled light-and-shade patterns were achieved with transparent layers of various colours and splattering. It was a rather messy lesson, which only added to the fun of the day!  

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"Thank you Maria, we really love your classes." (Carol)

"I thoroughly enjoyed class today. I learnt a lot. Can't wait for the next lesson. The best part was being able to relax and just be myself. Thank you for that." (Juanitta) 

"Thank you so much. Your Workshop was wonderful. You lifted so many spirits today. Bless you." (Barbara)

"Thanks so much Maria. A morning of painting at your studio definitely relaxed the mind and the body. Learning how to use the paint brush to achieve different effects was really useful." (Bev)

"Thank you for such an amazing morning and class, a wonderful escape from reality and thank you for sharing your knowledge with so much passion and patience. I'm already looking forward to the next one! (Lianie)

"Summer Fruits" Watercolour Workshop 1 (3 hours)
11 January 2025
Phthalo Blue, Carmine, Permanent Red, Lemon Yellow, New Gamboge Yellow and Mayan Dark Blue, all conjure up the fresh colours of Summer. Three glorious hours to create forms using 6 colours and wet-into-wet painting. Well done everyone!

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“As always such a pleasure to attend a session with Maria. It was so informative, interesting and inspiring. Hope we have many more.” (Barbara)

“I enjoyed our workshop today immensely. Maria is a patient and gifted art teacher. When she explains something, it is doable! Although I made a picture that I really like, the best of the day was the easy, non-judgemental atmosphere coming from Maria that spilled over to all of us. We enjoyed each other and the art.” (Ronel)

“I always love spending time in Maria’s studio! And I particularly love learning more and practising my beginner watercolour techniques. Thank you Maria!” (Jacqui)

“My 6th water paint class was a huge breakthrough for me. I can see my creativeness is more free-flowing, extravagant and relaxed. Your workshops are very therapeutic to my mind and soul. A big thank you for your patience too.” (Carol)

“Everything was well organised and done professionally. I really enjoyed the workshop and would certainly join you next time Maria!” (Magda)

“Thank you again for our class on Saturday, I thoroughly enjoyed it and learned so much.” (Lianie)

"Summer Fruits" Watercolour Workshop 2 (3 hours)
18 January 2025
Sparkling transparent Daniel Smith watercolour paints, jars of water, and Arches water colour paper make for fresh Summer fruit paintings! Add to the mix cups of hot coffee, fresh muffins and home-made biscuits, and you have a winner every time! Three glorious hours to create forms using 6 colours and wet-into-wet painting. Well done everyone!

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“Once again, the workshop was very fun and very relaxing. I really enjoyed painting different fruits and learning about shading. I’m really happy with my results and can’t wait to do it again. (Chloé)

“Thank you for yet again an amazing fun and relaxing morning. You slow the rush of life with these art classes.” (Marlene)

“Hi Maria, thank you once again for the fun workshop! As always I enjoyed it so much! It’s just like you forget about the world around you for a while. Really therapeutic. I’m looking forward to the April one already!” (Marijke)

“It was very much a ‘trust-the-process’ project but at the end it really came together. I really enjoyed it. Thank you so much!” (Brianna)

“Relaxing way to learn the basics of form, shades and to wait for it to dry a bit before adding more shades of paint, but to let it flow when necessary! Just like life …” (Deliana)