Perfectly Imperfect is an online course designed to uncover your visual language. Lorna Crane invites you into her studio and guides you every step of the way through the processes and techniques that have made her one of Australia’s best Contemporary Abstract Artists.
Lorna’s unique tuition will take you on a journey of discovery. Layered with a new way of thinking and feeling, in the end you’ll be able to speak confidently about your work, know who you are as an artist and where you want to go.
All course materials, including streaming videos, actionable tasks and downloadable resource guides are within an easy to use member portal.
You’ll be able to ask questions, get feedback and share your story with Lorna and fellow Perfectly Imperfect students through a private online community including live Q&A’s.
“Lorna Crane’s workshops offer an unparalleled artistic experience.
Her students will gain a wealth of information about materials and techniques, but will also greatly appreciate Lorna’s abilities to bring the spirit of play and experimentation into making compelling artworks.”
Perfect as they are, Lorna takes you beyond the brush, showing you how these utilitarian tools can open up a channel deep within you, creating a confidence and uncovering a connection with your work.
From the ceremony of the first marks to painting on cloth, your handmade brushes are just the beginning of finding your unique voice as an artist.
It’s time to be brave and push the boundaries as Lorna guides you every step of the way, let go of any expectations and simply allow the magic to happen.
From experienced artists to beginners the Perfectly Imperfect, Discovering Your Visual Language course will show you ways to free yourself from the rules and become the artist you’re meant to be!
“Lorna is a true talent to the arts!
Not only did she make me feel comfortable, she pushed me in a new direction, opened my mind to creating my own signature/style which has stayed with me thanks to her professionalism as a fabulous tutor.”
Hi, I’m Lorna and if I wasn’t an artist I would be a teacher.
I just love sharing and I’m excited to share with you what I have learnt during my 40 years as a professional artist in my first online course.
It hasn’t always been easy, in fact there are times in my life where I really doubted myself. I now realise after all of these years of working and exhibiting that, if I didn’t have those doubts and fears it wouldn’t be healthy. I love sharing those moments with people because I know what that’s like.
This course is all about finding your artistic voice, your own visual language. I’ll be guiding you through every step of the way by making your brushes, exploring your mark making and a series of projects to create objects of desire to record this time and this place.
If you’re a textile artist, you’ll probably do lots of stitching and if you’re a mixed media artist, you’ll probably use a lot of different mediums. It’ll be quite different from being in a class, but there’s a special quality about having this time of isolation of just being you and doing it at your own own pace.
Perfectly imperfect, to me is just the best compliment anybody could give me. I can’t wait to see what you create and hear your stories within our online community.
It’s going to be a time of deep discovery.
Lorna.
Lorna Crane’s ‘Perfectly Imperfect’ online workshop is an inspiring and stimulating experience. i signed up eager to learn how to make my own brushes and use them for mark making and came away discovering new aspects of my artistic voice. Crane’s generosity with her processes and her time are above and beyond what i could have anticipated. The many videos are beautifully produced and the downloads are a useful, detailed addition to my library. The facebook group is invaluable, bringing together a global group of like minded artists willing to share insights, techniques and work with the same generosity as Crane. If you have the opportunity to take this workshop, don’t hesitate.
I have long admired Lorna’s approach to art. The opportunity to engage from home, at my own pace, the freedom, under excellent tutorage has proven to be the perfect fit.
I found real enjoyment seeking materials, constructing “brushes” and then elation as the brushes wove their magic when dipped in inks and moved over various papers and fabric.
My visual language became evident as I increasingly let go and allowed the materials and my movements speak for me.
I encourage anyone who shares a little hesitancy but has the desire to create to follow in my footsteps and join any of the courses offered in such a professional and friendly format to jump in boots and all – your life will be enriched
This course has helped me feel more intimately connected with my environment through looking, listening, collecting & unravelling the secrets, stories & richness of nature’s palette….
I have played, dabbled & found myself absorbed in various processes under Lorna’s rich guidance, Playing with fabric, paper, leaves, rust, bark, inks, hand made brushes & local ochres.
I have thoroughly enjoyed making brushes from locally sourced materials. Finding surprise & mystery on different mediums through layering & turning things inside out or upside down. A rich resource of tools & prompts to discover different ways of working through playful adventure.
I absolutely adore Lornas course. She is inspirational and it has so extended my art practice. I m slowly getting through the course as I navigate through other art projects. But the bonus is we own the course forever so we can work at our own pace.
I’m also very much enjoying listening to Ang Friday night talks with renown artists. What a wonderful insight into their practice. Thank you so much for taking textiles to the next level!
Lorna teaches with her heart and soul and is the most encouraging artist I have ever had in my life, I have taken a lot of classes. Her lessons, constant encouragement and the beautifully taped class revitalized and healed my spirit. She is so knowledgeable and is so willing to share all her secrets with us, I can’t tell you how excited that made me feel. Thanks to her I have my art soul back.
I hold my creative self with a new awareness after completing this course. There’s a deeper understanding of who I am as an artist and an open vulnerability to create for the sheer joy it gives me.
Perfectly Imperfect was a perfect combination of guidance and creative freedom, and it resonated deep within me from those very first marks that spilled onto my paper. This course is special and will continue to guide me and remind me of the importance of creating from the heart.
Perfectly Imperfect is an amazing experience. Lorna’s skill and enthusiasm creates a tribe of participants who dive into the wealth of creative ideas and challenging lessons she presents and lose themselves in the joy of discovering their unique voices in mark making. It has pushed me creatively in a number of ways. I have been experimenting with asemic writing for a while now, but Perfectly Imperfect brought a breakthrough that gave me a connection with, and facility for, asemics that I hadn’t yet reached on my own. If you’re drawn to mark making, if you love fiber, crave creative adventure and enjoy being led by someone who is passionately engaged in learning and teaching, this is the course for you!
What an amazing experience joining the course was. It freed my way of seeing and creating so very much. I love Lorna’s way of working and playing, and by encouraging us to explore mark making in new ways, this has freed me to play more and experiment.
I had forgotten how much I enjoy working with fabrics, and the use of drop cloths which can then become part of future works was a revelation and has inspired my visual language ever since. I love the randomness and unexpected marks.
A truly inspirational experience, one that connects the heart and soul to nature.
For me, the most enjoyable part of this online course has been the connection between art and the natural world. Bringing elements of nature together through the use of handmade brushes, earth tones and mark making. And of course, creating the gorgeous coil pots and vessels.
This course has helped me to delve deep and discover who I am and what truly inspires me.
If recommending this course (and I have), I would say that it is “like a breath of fresh air.” Lorna’s warmth and charm shine through as she generously shares her extensive knowledge and life experiences as an artist in a relaxed and friendly environment. Loved every moment of it!
I took the Perfectly Imperfect course to let go, to learn new processes, and to incorporate into my art a feeling of the natural environment that inspires so deeply.
Lorna’s course has taken me on a journey of discovery. She took me out of my comfort zone and I gradually found I was letting go and enjoying the process, and most importantly learning to identify my own visual language.
The freedom of letting go is bliss and the journey to finding marks that resonate with me, redefines me within my own artistic compass.
I enjoyed this course with Lorna immensely. Each module not only had a written explanation of the techniques and materials needed, but also a wonderfully visual video demonstration. Lorna is so knowledgeable and passionate about her own work, and this passion and expertise shines through her personality.
Lorna has given me permission to be myself, and to embrace the unexpected results, rather than feel I have failed in what I was hoping to achieve. Her work is inspired by her natural surroundings where she lives and works, and this has again helped me to look at my own environment with new eyes, and to be inspired by the natural colours, textures and land/seascapes where I live, helping me along the path to finding my own visual language.
For anyone seeking a unique approach to their creativity, I would definitely recommend this wonderful online workshop with Lorna.
“Lorna Crane’s workshops offer an unparalleled artistic experience.
She is one of the most dedicated, talented, and gifted artists I’ve had the pleasure of knowing.
I count Lorna among the most important artists working today.
Her students will gain a wealth of information about materials and techniques, but will also greatly appreciate Lorna’s abilities to bring the spirit of play and experimentation into making compelling artworks. “
This class has been a wonderful journey of discovery. Lorna’s approach to creating and teaching art has influenced me and allowed me to experiment and explore without self-imposed restrictions or worrying about being ‘perfect’. This has made it possible for me to begin to discover my unique visual language.
Lorna has allowed me to let go of control, discover my deeper more meaningful inspiration, to cherish the found things and incorporate them by making brushes, mark making and incorporating them in works. This course has added invaluable knowledge to draw on in my future works and artistic direction.
After completing five years of arts training at the University of Wollongong in the mid eighties Lorna Crane gained an Associate Diploma of Creative Art followed by the Bachelor of Creative Arts graduating with Distinction.
Lorna has been involved with many artist run initiatives and community arts projects over many years, including Art Arena Gallery Inc, Megalo Access Arts and the ANCA Dickson studio complex in Canberra. During this time she participated in many solo and group exhibitions.
She was awarded the Sir William Keys Churchill Fellowship researching community arts and mental health in 2002. Her work has been represented in many group and selected exhibitions – regionally, nationally and internationally.
Known as The Brushmaker Lorna sources materials from her natural environment including driftwood, bamboo, organic fibres along with found objects making unique rudimental and utilitarian brushes in a variety of shapes and sizes.
Career highlights include residencies with the Bundanon Trust, Alice Springs, Broken Hill Art Exchange, Berlin, New Zealand, Venice, Italy. During September 2016 she traveled to Barcelona for a two week residency at Art Print Residence to make a series of unique prints. During February/March 2017 she was an artist in residence at Bull Bay, North Bruny Island Tasmania. Upcoming residency is at Cloudbough in Kandos, NSW March 2021.
“I have had the pleasure of being totally immersed in two of Lorna’s amazing workshops.
Lorna is able to bring out the best of each participant by respecting their approach to mark-making and encouraging risk-taking with materials and imagery.
Lorna is articulate and organized, in both planning of a workshop, and the demonstration of technique and ideas.”
