Country: Australia
About me
Through 2015 and 2016 Szczepan attended workshops offered by some of Australia’s leading watercolour artists. In particular, the Melbourne workshops led by Alvaro Castagnet and more recent workshops in Mt Tamborine with Herman Pekel gave him the confidence to move beyond the rigid confines of his professional training - of technical details and straight lines and into a world abound in fluidity of forms, from the “literal” towards an expression of the essence of “form”, “mood” and “light”.
He is particularly interested in painting en-plein-air and pursues every opportunity to paint outdoors, to paint spontaneously and be challenged by the elements. In 2018 he started teaching watercolour classes to beginners and advanced students and continues to offer workshops in a variety of broad and specialist subjects.
He was in 2018 and 2020 also selected as one of Australia’s representatives to the FabrianoinAcquarello Festival in Fabriano, Italy. 2020 was a turning point. Szczepan took the opportunity to transform his watercolour engagement from local beginnings to International projects. In June 2020, he launched and delivered a significant milestone in ONLINE watercolour communication and collaboration. A very successful “GO WITH THE FLOW – A GLOBAL WATERCOLOUR CONVERSATION” saw the coming together of over 100 of the world’s leading watercolour artists to discuss and chat about their experiences and projects for a 24-hour marathon event to an audience of thousands of LIVE online viewers.
He continues to deliver ONLINE watercolour classes, courses, tutorials and workshops that are engaging with ever-growing online audience.
