Artist’s blog
Drawn to paint
Art and Community: Building Connections Through Creativity
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from years of drawing and sharing creative spaces—it’s that art has the power to bring people together. It doesn’t matter where you’re from or what stage you’re at; when you’re side by side, charcoal in hand, something shifts. You become part of something bigger.
That’s exactly what sparked the idea for the Underground Sketch Club—a life drawing community right here on Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
Why the Northern Beaches are the Perfect Muse for Artists
There’s a quiet kind of magic here—the kind that seeps into your bones and finds its way into your brushstrokes. The Northern Beaches isn’t just a beautiful backdrop; for me, it’s a muse. The sea, the breeze, the way the light cracks through the cloud cover—it’s all part of the language I draw from when I create.
Northern Beaches Life Drawing - Top 10 Tips
Discover local Northern Beaches Artist Holly Mahoney’s top ten tips for life drawing. Holly founded the Underground Sketch Club in 2024. Join her and a budding community of creatives for life drawing sessions with a relaxed setting.
Meet a Northern Beaches Artist: The Coastal Inspiration Behind My Work
Daydreams translated in paint - that’s a good description of the artistic process! I often gaze at the sky and out to sea to try to imagine what colour paints I would crack open or mix together for the perfect blend to interpret the landscape and with what technique or brushstrokes I'd emply to layer to honour those colours in front of me and amazingly found in nature.
Living and painting on the Northern Beaches, I'm endlessly inspired by…