The Australian: John Olsen Zooms in to draw on experience

The Australian: John Olsen Zooms in to draw on experience

Article by Jane Albert

Much like our current students, NAS alumnus John Olsen is utilising Zoom to continue teaching his painting classes.

“Why should we stop just because of the corona­virus?” he said. It didn’t take long for him to adapt to teaching over Zoom instead, and the classes ­resumed. “We’ve continued in that kind of way and that’s been rather nice — it’s a long time since I’ve taught.”

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Image: Artist John Olsen, with his daughter Louise, in his NSW southern highlands studio provides drawing classes to local artists on a monthly basis. Picture: Ken Redpath.

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