Colours Of Emotion invites participants to explore how feeling can take form through structure, balance and material presence. This expressive palette knife painting workshop draws inspiration from the relationship between inner experience and visual composition, investigating how texture, weight and spatial tension can convey emotional depth.

Guided by Melbourne-based artist Angelina Mirabito, PhD, this immersive session combines intuitive art-making with the tactile, sculptural qualities of palette knife painting. Through layering, compression and gesture, participants will construct surfaces that echo architectural principles such as stability, rhythm and containment, while allowing emotion to move freely within the composition.

The workshop encourages exploration of contrast between density and openness, control and spontaneity, structure and flow. As materials are built, shifted and refined, each work develops as a personal structure shaped by sensation, memory and perception.

Suitable for all experience levels, Colours Of Emotion offers a reflective and supportive environment to investigate contemporary abstract painting through the interplay of structure, texture and feeling.

What to Expect

• Introduction to palette knife techniques for building texture and movement

• Guided prompts to inspire depth, contrast, and tonal layering

• Completion of a bold 40 × 50 cm expressive artwork

You’ll Walk Away With

• A finished textured painting

• Greater confidence using palette knives

• A deeper awareness of colour relationships and seasonal tones

• A calm, grounding creative experience

What’s Included

• All art materials (canvas, paints, palette knives)

• A glass of wine and light refreshments

• Your completed 40 × 50 cm painting to take home

• Supportive facilitation by Angelina Mirabito

• Intimate group setting (maximum 12 participants)

Cost

$80 per person

Limited to 12 participants
20% OFF for Gladstone residents
10% OFF for family and friends of Gladstone residents

Please email contact@romulusfolio.com.au for coupon codes or enquire at The Gladstone front desk.

Spaces are limited, and recent palette knife workshops have sold out. Early bookings are strongly recommended.

For more information, contact contact@romulusfolio.com.au

Let go, explore, and create—experience the power of expressive painting with palette knives.

About the Artist

Angelina Mirabito is a Melbourne-based artist with a PhD in Creative Writing and deep roots in intuitive, expressive artmaking. Her painting practice explores the body’s relationship to texture, movement, and emotion, using unconventional tools like palette knives, sticks, and her hands to build tactile, layered works. Her workshops invite others to step into this playful and powerful space of creative expression.

The exhibition and all events are designed to be inclusive and welcoming to all visitors.

• Wheelchair accessible

• Low-sensory / relaxed environment

• Seating available

• Accessible bathroom

 

You’ll find the ROMULUS Folio Gallery on the ground floor, next to Lobby B at The Gladstone, located at 15-85 Gladstone Street, South Melbourne, 3205.