Residents will be taken on a journey through Wagga for the Art Trail event on Saturday and Sunday to explore the city's bustling art culture.

Each artist found their way into the creative sphere, and although they may learn from each other, no two pieces are alike.

Debbie Wood picked up a brush as a way to pass the time while her knee healed from surgery, but found it connected her to a heritage she grew up without.

"My girlfriend said, 'come to art' and I said, 'I can't draw, I can't even paint, I can't go to art', but she convinced me," she said.

"It took me away from feeling, I suppose, a little bit depressed about the whole situation with the knee.

"I make all sorts of art. I do Indigenous art to weaving to mainstream art. I do landscapes, animals, it depends on whatever mood I'm in when I'm painting."

Mrs Wood was born in Moree and is a Kamilaroi woman.

"A lot of my culture I never grew up with, so it's been the last probably 20 years of finding myself and finding myself in culture and what it means," she said.

"I learned to weave when I came to Wagga about five years ago from a couple of the aunties here because I didn't even know how to weave until then.

"So Aunty Kath and Aunty Pat were an inspiration to the weaving, and it's just gone from there."

Mrs Wood finds that she often will not have an idea of what she is going to create until she starts to paint.

"I can't say to you I'm going to sit and paint a story of a river or something like that, because I don't know what I'm going to paint till I start," she said.

"Most of my weaving is done when we're travelling because my husband drives everywhere, I sit and weave."

One of Mrs Wood's pieces depicting a goanna recently won first prize in the Indigenous section at a competition in Lockhart.

"That was all about country, and what you see in the land, so to me, for the Indigenous side, the goanna is very important," she said.

Mrs Wood said when it comes to artwork, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" and would encourage people to check out the local scene this weekend.

Sylvia Bamberry's earliest memory was drawing on the walls of the family home, much to her parent's displeasure.

She said that she often would have pictures and images that crop up in her mind, inspiring her to start sketching.

"I like to make pictures about everything, and I like to paint things that will make people happy when they look at them," she said.

"I always do little drawings, little sketches of what I am thinking before I start painting, so I have little sketchbooks."

One of the highlights of her career as an artist was travelling to Europe to learn from the likes of John Lovett and Amanda Hyatt.

Mrs Bamberry said she does not constrain herself to one medium or one subject when it comes to her work.

"I go through stages and phases," she said.

"At the moment, I've been doing quite a few landscapes. If there are lots of flowers around, I might be doing flowers. I like to do interiors and nudes occasionally.

"I use pastels, oils and while I am travelling, I take watercolours."

Mrs Bamberry said although some think art comes easily to those who are "gifted", pieces do not always turn out how she wishes.

"You get a picture in your mind, and sometimes it doesn't always come out the way you think it was in your mind," she said.

"Sometimes it does, but on rare occasions."

Mrs Bamberry spends as many hours as she can painting and drawing, but added it never seems to be enough.

"It's all I can get," she said. "I get cranky about things that interrupt me and stop me getting there, but there are other things in life that I've got to do."

Carol Stewart was retrenched at 50 years old and, unable to find another job, decided to start teaching art.

Msr Stewart said she was a firm believer in everyone being able to learn art.

"I usually get everybody to do a landscape first off, because that's the easiest and I'll tell them how to paint it, and then I get them to do an upside-down painting which teaches them to do just shapes and colours," she said.

"We do a 10-minute drawing session before we start painting each time, so their drawings improved since we've been doing that, as well as their painting.

"The saying goes that 'artists aren't born, they're taught'. If you can draw, it's not necessary, but it's a bonus if you can draw. But otherwise, you teach them to draw. So it's easy."

Mrs Stewart said it is hard to describe how it feels to create a painting.

"You forget about everything else," she said.

"You get lost in your painting, and you look at things differently. You look at trees differently, and you look at clouds differently, once you start painting.

"So it gets you to appreciate things more in the world and what's out there."

Mrs Stewart and her husband started the Wagga Art Trail to give local artists the chance to showcase their work.

"Now I do oils, but I used to do everything, and I'm more of a realist impressionist," she said.

"With everybody on the Art Trial, there is no two that paint the same or do the same, and then we've got the lady in Junee, who does pottery and garden sculptures.

"A lot of people really don't know how art's done, and this is an opportunity for them to see what they are and we're all going to have a painting on the go, so they'll be actually seeing us paint."

Mrs Stewart said she hoped to see people following the trail and learning something along the way.

The Wagga Art Trail is on November 2 and 3, from 10am to 4pm. Entry is free. For a full list of addresses and artists go to www.facebook.com/waggawaggaarttrail/.