Expressive Floral Painting:Movement & Energy
9 Week Class | Registration opens 2026-02-10 12:00 PM
This course invites students to explore flowers through expressive, dynamic painting approaches. Rather than focusing on botanical accuracy, the emphasis is on movement, rhythm, and emotional response.
Working from fresh floral arrangements and references, students will experiment with colour, gesture, layering, and abstraction to develop vibrant, energetic compositions
Note: Previous painting experience is recommended for this course.
Base Tuition: $442+ Material Fee: $10 = $452 Total
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- What You Will Learn:
- Expressive approaches to painting flowers
- Gesture, movement, and rhythm in floral compositions
- Color theory and bold colour relationshipsLayering, transparency, and texture techniques
- Balancing abstraction and representation
- Developing a personal visual language through floral painting
Leila Refahi
Leila is an experienced art teacher and researcher with a demonstrated history of working in Visual Art. She has taught painting and drawing in different art schools and universities in Canada, Finland, Germany and Iran since 2011. Leila works with painting, installation and digital media to create participatory art experiences. Her work mainly focuses on environmental issues, climate change and endangered animals. She is interested in socially engaged art and its impact on raising and transforming environmental knowledge in communities. She has presented six solo exhibitions and participated in over 60 national & international group exhibitions and festivals.