Maxine Wade (B.Arts. Dip.Ed.)

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 Maxine Wade has always had an interest in creativity and trained as an Art teacher at Melbourne University, going on to teach in a variety of secondary colleges for 27 years. She then operated a picture framing business for 5 years, before beginning tutoring adults in watercolour, drawing, life drawing and mixed media at many art societies in Melbourne. She was a signatory member of the Australian Guild of Realist Artists (AGRA) for 15 years (2 of those serving as a councillor there, as Professional development Officer) and a member of the Watercolour Society of Victoria for 20 years. Maxine has won many awards for her work, most recently Highly Commended Kenneth Jack Memorial Award, Montsalvat 2010  and Best Watercolour at the 2009 Castlemaine Art Show, and her work is held in many collections. She has held many solo and joint exhibitions over 35 years and is currently tutoring at Victorian Artists' Society (watercolour), Brighton Art Society (watercolour & mixed media), Glen Eira Cheltenham Art Group (watercolour),  Beaumaris Art Group (painting & drawing), life drawing at Ashburton Community Centre, and life drawing at McClelland Guild of Artists. She was Artist in Residence for 2 years, teaching watercolour at Camberwell Grammar School.  She also teaches workshops and demonstrates at many Melbourne and regional art societies throughout the year. Maxine also judges art shows in metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria. She operates paintED. Tours to Italy (2011), France (2013), Italy (2015) and Italy (2017) (Venice & Santa Margherita)....... where painting & sketching on-site is combined with gallery visits and a lecture by Maxine on the artist in focus for the tour.

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paintED.tours had very successful tours to Italy in 2011, then France in 2013, and then in 2015 to VENICE & RADDA in CHIANTI .....
Next tour was again to Italy 2017 to Venice & Santa Margherita on the Italian Riviera,......I returned on October 8th after a wonderful tour with sunny days (except one!) All 11 of my students had a great time...though Venice was very crowded...difficult to find large enough painting sites for all of us!! Santa Margherita was stunning.....next planned tour is in 2019...TO FRANCE!!  NICE as our city location and a small mediaeval French village nearby in Provence for our regional location.......as of June I am still researching villages not too far distant from Nice......many I have looked at don't have larger hotels close to the town centre - only small B&B's and guest houses, where the whole group won't fit! So, my search goes on.....currently, considering ST. REMY DU PROVENCE orBONNIEUX?
2019 prices come out towards the end oj JULY, so my travel agant has recommended that I wait until then to make a decision........SO STAY TUNED FOR AN ANNOUNCEMENT THEN......


UPDATE APRIL 2018.....currently I have my solo exhibition "FRAGMENTS" still on at BEAUMARIS ART  GROUP, RESERVE RD, BEAUMARIS, next to the library. Opening night was Friday 20th April, attended by over 60 people and opened by Dr. Max Darby, Art Education lecturer and teacher.
It was a wonderful night, attended by many of my students, friends and family. 6 paintings were sold
from the catalogue, and 7 more unframed works. This exhibition resulted in 3 new students enrolling in my Watercolour class at Beaumaris!