The Fine Arts Workshop is both a destination and a beginning
for the appreciation and practice of art
The Fine Arts Workshop (formally the Beeline Art Studio) was founded in 1997 by Taryn Millar. She studied Fine Arts at The University of The Witwatersrand from 1994 to 1998 and in 2006 took part in an Art Teacher’s Training Course in Florence, Italy with Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky (collectively known as Rosenclaire). Taryn has collaborated with like-minded art teachers running courses in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Italy and online. She is also a practicing artist exhibiting annually.
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Taryn Millar Biography
Taryn Millar is an interdisciplinary artist and teacher who lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa. She received her B.A. (Fine Arts) from the University of The Witwatersrand followed by a two year apprenticeship with photographer, Jurgen Schadeberg. Over the past 20 years, she has continued independent studies under mentors and artists Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky (known collectively as Rosenclaire) taking part in annual residencies, workshops and courses in Cape Town and Florence (Italy). She has taught fine arts and photography for twenty years at various institutions including the Artists’ Proof Studio in Newtown, the Wits Architecture Department and the Creative Inner City Initiative in Hillbrow.
Taryn has participated in numerous exhibitions over the past eighteen years. The most recent being Re-vision at The AVA Gallery in Cape Town, Conversations with Irma at the Irma Stern Museum and A Ripple Effect at The AVA Gallery in Cape Town. Millar is the founding member of A Still Life, an art and environmental activist collective whose current project was commissioned by the Institute for Creative Arts (UCT) for (Un)Infecting The City 2021 and was awarded The Social Impact Art Prize which culminated in an exhibition at the Rupert Museum in Stellenbosch in 2022. Her work is part of private and corporate collections.
