{"id":104,"date":"2011-07-25T13:04:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T03:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/?p=104"},"modified":"2011-07-25T13:05:20","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T03:05:20","slug":"acclaimed-aussie-artist-christopher-hogan-at-laguna-phuket-summer-family-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"Acclaimed Aussie Artist Christopher Hogan at Laguna Phuket Summer Family Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Acclaimed Aussie Artist Christopher Hogan at Laguna Phuket Summer Family Festival<\/p>\n

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Internationally renowned Australian artist Christopher Hogan will again be Artist-in-Residence at this year\u2019s Laguna Phuket Summer Family Festival with a programme of daily art classes and tutorials.<\/p>\n

Christopher, a specialist in marine-themed abstract paintings, will hold morning and afternoon art classes for children and adults from 18 July until 27 August at the Festival site in Canal Village Shopping Centre, and is scheduled to hold tutorials around the resort\u2019s luxury hotel properties.<\/p>\n

He\u2019ll also exhibit his acclaimed abstract paintings, inspired by fish skin patterns and underwater scenes gleaned from scuba diving experiences on the Great Barrier Reef near his home on Australia\u2019s Gold Coast.
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Christopher\u2019s appearance at this year\u2019s Laguna Phuket Summer Family Festival follows the success of his 2010 debut as Festival Artist-in-Residence.<\/p>\n

The Howland family, who took one of his Festival classes, wrote of their experience: \u201cThe couple of hours we spent painting with you were a genuine highlight of our holiday. We were all really pleased with how well our pictures turned out under your expert tuition.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore importantly, it was wonderful to do something calm, reflective and creative together as a family \u2013 we will treasure our novice art works as a unique reminder of our fabulous holiday.”
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As well as holding his popular classes for hotel guests and local residents last year, Christopher also launched a creative art course for teachers and pupils of a Phang Nga provincial school supported by Laguna Phuket\u2019s Developing Sustainable Schools programme – and helped raise THB100, 000 (US$3,300) for the school with a charity \u201cArt Party\u201d and raffle of paintings.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year at Laguna Phuket was an amazing experience and I\u2019m really excited about being there again for another Summer Family Festival to add to the appeal of the overall event,\u201d said Christopher. I hope to repeat the success of my classes and develop my relationship with hotel guests and the local community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Christopher\u2019s Summer Family Festival art classes, held Monday-Saturday 10.00-12.00pm and 2.30-4.30pm, cost THB 2,000 nett for adults and THB 1,000 nett for children (4-14 years). Private lessons are available by appointment.<\/p>\n

The Laguna Phuket Summer Family Festival runs from 25 June until 31October with benefits that include free dining for kids aged 12 and under at all seven Laguna Phuket hotels; free kids golf when playing with a full-paying adult; free speedboat tours for kids to Naka and Khai islands; daily Kidz Fun Zone activities (until 22 August) with the first session free; free evening Kidz Lounges at all hotels, open 6-10pm; free tennis for in-house guests; and free extra bed for kids aged 12 and under.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Acclaimed Aussie Artist Christopher Hogan at Laguna Phuket Summer Family Festival Internationally renowned Australian artist Christopher Hogan will again be Artist-in-Residence at this year\u2019s Laguna Phuket Summer Family Festival with a programme of daily art classes and tutorials. Christopher, a specialist in marine-themed abstract paintings, will hold morning and afternoon art classes for children and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}