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Learn with me: 2025 workshops

29 October 2024 Filed Under: Teaching, Zoom Workshops Leave a Comment

Learn with me! Bookings are now open for my 2025 workshops: three in-person classes at the Australasian Quilt Convention in Melbourne from 10-13 April 2025 and my live and interactive Zoom workshop with Quiltfest Virtual Schoolhouse #10 on 22 January 2025 (US time). As I reflect on my priorities following the death of my husband, […]

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Join Brenda for the Shape-Line-Curve Workshop Trio

16 August 2023 Filed Under: Teaching, Zoom Workshops 2 Comments

I am excited to be able to offer a Shape-Line-Curve trio of fortnightly Zoom workshops in September and early October 2023. Take one, two or grab the discount for all three. I would love for you to join me. The workshops will also be recorded and available to view for 30 days. I am directly […]

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Riffing with Repetition

16 February 2023 Filed Under: Teaching, Technique:Design, Zoom Workshops Leave a Comment

Explore the power of repetition to create unity and rhythm in abstract design using YOUR preferred techniques in a new design workshop: Riffing with Repetition with Brenda Gael Smith.

Improv Rocks! rock painting in fabric

14 February 2023 Filed Under: Teaching, Zoom Workshops Leave a Comment

Join Brenda Gael Smith for her new workshop: Improv Rocks! rock painting with fabric. Combine linear motifs with organic shapes. Learn with colour and design with digital sketches.

Learn with me in 2023! Colourful bird framed by bright geometric quilt

Learn with me in 2023! New Serendipity Workshop Schedule

1 January 2023 Filed Under: Teaching, Zoom Workshops Leave a Comment

Learn with Brenda Gael Smith in 2023! check out the Serendipity Workshop schedule.Book online by 15 January for the earlybird special.

Quiltfest Virtual Schoolhouse #3

18 September 2022 Filed Under: Teaching, Zoom Workshops Leave a Comment

Join Brenda Gael Smith in the Quiltfest Virtual Schoolhouse #3 for Geometricks and Line Dancing Zoom workshops on 4 and 5 November 2022.

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It’s happening. Pent Up is off to #quiltcon2026
It’s happening. Pent Up is off to #quiltcon2026 and so am I 😍 After many years of submitting, this is my first QuiltCon acceptance and it will be my first time attending in person. I look forward to seeing many fine quilts in the cloth, meeting friends old and new and generally revelling in the energy of this exciting event. Let me know if I will see you there too.
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My artworks Desire Lines #9: Here Comes the Sun an
My artworks Desire Lines #9: Here Comes the Sun and Desire Lines #3: Running Hot & Cold feature in Ahead of the Curve, an invitational exhibition of Australian modern quilts curated by Tara Glastonbury now showing at the @pacc_gallery Cessnock until 31 January 2026. FREE entry. Gallery hours:
* Monday to Friday | 9am – 4.30pm
* Saturday | 10am – 2.30pm

I am grateful to Tara for the prompt to create a new artwork and to put an older piece out into the world again. They glow in the gallery space. I also have some smaller textile sketches available for sale in the gift shop.

Here Comes the Sun 85x136cm 
You can’t outrun or bypass grief. Getting ahead of the curve is illusory. The only way is through. Even in the depths of loss, moments of brightness appear. These glimmers remind us that light is never fully extinguished. Darkness and radiance are not opposites but companions, entwined in the human experience. This work is both a lament and an invocation: an acknowledgment of pain, and a quiet turning toward the light that eventually breaks through. Such is the duality of grief.

Running Hot & Cold (37x75cm) explores the volatile spectrum of emotion—where passion ignites and ambivalence cools. Through shifting tones and contrasting forms, this work reveals the tension between intimacy and distance, embodying the unstable rhythm of feeling too much and not enough. 
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