Gourmet Escape... a culinary experience
Come and experience the Good Life where local & interstate chefs whip up wonderful culinary experiences using Martin's gorgeous outdoor kitchen... indulge in a vino or two whilst taking in the spectacular views, and listening to birdsong.
The Orchard... a wonderful melange of fruit from native & exotic trees. Imagine lychees, longans, kumquats pomegranates and grapes, savour the fragrance of cloves, cinnamon, bay and kaffir lime leaves; ever wondered what tea, coffee and carob plants look like? Take a stroll through our orchard!
The Herb and Vegetable Garden... terraced on the slope with ocean and rainforest views, one can sit amongst a veritable feast of salad ingredients, edible flowers and herbs - smell, taste and harvest for lunch.
Upcoming Classes
Our Classes are held 9.30am to 4.30pm.
Classes include: an unforgettable life experience, apron, cowboy hat, lunch, vino, hands on cooking class from $295.00 per person
French Feast (Wednesday July 28)... Bruno Loubet from Bistro Bruno is out from London and will be cooking up a storm and teaching you some of his favourite French dishes. More info.
$295.00 per person
Limited spaces available
A Taste of the Middle East (Monday 30th August) Make preserved lemons, mezze and a tagine or two with TV show "Ready, Steady Cook" chef Matt Golinski. More info.
History of Bread (September) Travel through the wonderful world of bread. Explore sourdough, starters and basic bread baking with artisan breadmaker Richard Cotton. More info.
Desserts to Die For (September) Martin whips up some of the Freestyle classics with you! More info.
Rustic Italian... (November) There's more to Martin Boetz from Longrain than his famed Thai food; his other passion is Italian. Join him and cook up an Italian feast, sit down and indulge with stories from his travels... Buon appetito! More info.
Build Your Own Wood Fired Oven... ever wanted a pizza oven in your backyard ? This course is for you, come and build one with us...
Woodfired Pizza, Roasts and Desserts...Master the perfect pizza crust, roast your favourite meats and bake some yummo desserts
Old Fashioned Jams, Relishes and Chutneys... here you will pick the fruit and bring back to kitchen and make old classics with love...
The Italian Larder... learn what to have on hand in your pantry for producing pasta... so you can be both creative and spontaneous
The Whole Beast... nose to tail - what do we do with it?
Paddock to Plate... this is a foodie trail of some of our Sunshine Coast's best producers, bring it back and cook up a feast...
Tarts and More... Martin's favourite pastry chef shows us what she is made of...
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Freestyle Escape Experience
Should you want to do something extraordinary with a group of special friends or team building with your colleagues from work, we can help plan your Escape experience whether it is a day, a week or a weekend away with art classes, sculpture workshops, beauty treatments, yoga or cooking demonstrations.
The fully-equipped outdoor kitchen with rustic wooden table that seats 20 people is perfect for art and sculpture classes, staff team-building and professional development courses for teachers where our Freestyle Escape tutors teach sculptural and/or painting techniques that can be taken back and used in school classrooms....
Consider Escape for a fun alternative hen's party where you can enjoy the company of your special girlfriends and have a great day or weekend away.
With our experienced tutors and beauty therapists, we can organize one of the following activities or a combination tailor made for you and your friends. Consider below:
- Art Workshops - all materials supplied,you dont have to worry about anything...
- Sculpture Workshops - clay and tools supplied
- Pamper Packages - Ripple Massage provide sensational tratments
- Tea and Tarot - Annie our resident psychic provides a fun enlightening afternoon
- Life Coaching - our life coaches on hand to help create change in your life
- Executive Coaching - tailored to your group
- Team Building - tailored to your group
- Qijong & Yoga
- Identify and select fresh herbs and produce from the herb garden and orchard
- Cooking Demonstration with celebrity local or interstate chef followed by a fab lunch
- Photography
- Writing workshops
- Cooking class at the Spirithouse
- Lunch or Dinner at the Spirithouse
Freestyle Escape Art Workshops
Our art classes are held outdoors, undercover on our idyllic acreage amongst rainforest and are available for groups of 10+ people per tutor.
Your group can enjoy fun and exciting classes where all materials are provided - great for those who want to have a dabble in art before buying all the paints and brushes.
Be inspired by rainforest, farmland & ocean views as you create your masterpiece and take time out to enjoy delicious meals alfresco.
Freestyle Escape Art classes offer an experienced Art tutor where class is tailored to the skills of your group
all materials are supplied: apron, brushes, paint, easel and artist palette supplied for painting classes
Classes are offered in the following mediums:
Watercolours - paints ,paper and canvas supplied
Oils - paints and canvas supplied
Acrylics - paints and canvas supplied
Sculpture - clay and tools supplied
Figurative Drawing - charcoals,pencils and paper supplied
Portraits - paints, paper and canvas supplied
Mixed Media - paints, paper and canvas supplied (client to bring their favourite fabric or magazine)
Found ochres and natural pigments - pigments and canvas supplied
Charcoals - charcoal,paper supplied
Workshop Information
Weekday and Weekend workshops are available with all materials from $250.00 per person per day
Our 1 day workshops can include morning tea, a gourmet lunch and afternoon tea
Our 2 day workshops can include morning tea, a gourmet lunch and afternoon tea and breakfast on the last day.
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Freestyle tutors available for part-day, full day or weekend for your groupbooking:
Sussanne Morton
Sussanne has been teaching Acrylic and Oil painting for the past ten years. Her work is held in private and public collections throughout Brisbane, the Sunshine Coast and interstate. More recently Sussanne’s floral portraits have been selling to private collectors in Denmark.
Sussanne specialises in both representational and contemporary abstract art. Her subject matter ranges from landscapes, flowers, and underwater scenes to abstract expressionism.
Her realistic paintings are a snapshot of something natural and beautiful, often embellished ‘larger than life’, creating a wonderful visual impact. Things of nature are portrayed on her canvas, such as flowers, leaves, still – life, landscapes, underwater scenes or close up views of an organic form.
Executed in either oils or acrylics or both, Sussanne’s abstracts are mostly unplanned; Influenced by her surroundings, they are simply an expression of an idea, or inspiration, and coloured with emotion.
She revels in the sense freedom in the creation of an abstract. There are no limitations as such and she is not bound to explain each piece. They are open to interpretation and speak the audience of their own accord.
Terry Bouton: 'The Oil Portrait Oils'
Participants will produce a number of small sketches and an oil portrait painting.
As a warm up we will draw a series of quick faces to examine the elements of proportion and the viewpoints possible in portraiture. Over a cup of tea we will discuss the proportions and compositions found in a number of well known portraits. After some initial planning we will begin our own portrait painting using some of the following techniques: grisaille, under painting, alla prima, glazing and other techniques common to oil painting.
Demonstrations will be given throughout the workshop and participants will produce their own portrait.
Penelope Gilbert-NG
'People'
Penelope believes a good portrait not only captures a physical likeness; it must have the feel of that person’s personality as well.
'Landscapes'
Penelope is an experienced workshop teacher in drawing, painting with oils, pastels and water colours.
http://www.penelopegilbertng.com/
Cernak: 'Landscape/Country as Metaphor'
Cernak is from a non-Indigenous first generation migrant background, born in the Glass House Bay region (Moreton Bay) who has already lived and worked through three major art periods in Modernism, Post-Modernism and the eclecticism we refer to as “Contemporary”.
When you work with her through two days of exploring the metaphor of the landscape/country as body/Earth, your painting expression will open inwards and outwards into realms you had simply not imagined. And you will have reached this pathway yourself. It will be unique. And it, like you, your painting will have a real sense of belonging.
www.visualartistinfo/cernakcernak
Kate French: Sculpture
Clay & tools supplied
During the course we hand build the carcass of the sculpture, proportion the basic shape, model facial features, hair, clothing, position the sculpture into a posture that reflects its subject character and finally texture the sculpture to bring it up to a beautiful finish. You can expect to take a sculpture home at the end of the two days that is ready for drying and firing, plus the skills you will need to modify this technique for any hand building project. The course is packed full of simple, informative and easy demonstrations. You will need to bring a camera, notebook, a big cushion or beanbag to carry your work home on and some photos to use as a reference.
Noel Miller 'Painting from the Ground'
Recommended: For painters with some experience
Participants will use found ochres and natural pigments, mixing their own paints and learning to discern and mix colour. All styles from traditional to abstract will enjoy learning to use these traditional materials, as well as learning to paint in the wet-on-wet method. We will paint en plein air and take the opportunity to apply paint directly to the surface without using drawing/drafting marks. Although ochres and pigments will be the main media used, participants will be encouraged to use a variety of media in their work. There will be an emphasis on experimentation in use of media and construction of the work.
The first half day, we will prepare cartoons on paper that we will then translate into a series of canvasses. Participants will finish at least two canvasses in the two days.
"This is not a workshop for the obsessive compulsive person needing to go into great detail. Be prepared to move outside the square. Be prepared to possibly be challenged. Come along ready to paint physically and be exhausted at the end of the day. On the final day, I will ask every participant to work on a large scale work that they complete that day."
Some time at the workshop will be set aside to compare art practices or talk with beginners about building a body of work and finding a space to exhibit.
Dianne Cannon: 'Indoor/Outdoor Large Clay Sculptures'
Clay & tools supplied
In my workshops I teach people the form to make large sculptures approx. 2-3 blocks of clay. All sculptures are hollow and after firing can be put inside or outside. You do not need to have any experience at all to do my workshop as the form I teach is very simple and I take you through every step. All students I have taught have all been amazed at the work they have produced at the end of the workshop and all feel very inspired to continue to play with clay. All my students sign up many times to come back as a strong bond forms in the workshops with lots of networking. All sculptures are approx. 75cm high. To see some of my work go to my website. I love inspiring people to find the artist within, teaching people to sculpt is a passion, I love it.
Leigh Camilleri 'The Process of Drawing'
Charcoal, pencils & canvas supplied
This workshop is a dry medium drawing workshop focusing on still life as a starting point. I will be encouraging participants to push their own personal working styles while using processes that will concentrate on space, composition and colour. At the end of each day a group review will be held to support and encourage personal ways of working. I teach by demonstration and encourage group involvement. With a view to rigorous observation is just the beginning of the process of inspiration.
http://web.mac.com/leighcamilleri/leigh_camilleri/Leigh_Camilleri.html
Testimonial
Hello Martin
Thank you for the memorable art day my daughter Jane and I spent at “Freestyle Escape”.
My experience was so far beyond my expectation. The venue is breathtaking and sitting down to the delicious lunch with the teachers and others was most enjoyable.
I didn’t believe I would come home after a one day lesson with a charcoal portrait when the best I have ever achieved is a stick man or two circles with ears resembling a cat. I am so proud of my charcoal I am framing it.
Jane’s schulpture is sitting in pride of place in the living room and every visitor to our home has put in an order for one.
We assure our visitors that they too should partake in a Freestyle Escape Art experience and come away with their own creations….it is so fulfilling.
Warm regards
Bronwyn Tobin
