Colour, Colour, Colour.

That is what this workshop is all about.  I love how colour brightens up everything it touches so in this creative workshop you will have the opportunity to select from a range of colourful ceramic pots that have matching cord already pre-measured and cut for your convenience.  I realise that not everyone enjoys bright colours so I also bring along a selection of neutral colours.  You will learn the spiral macrame knot and your completed hanger will be a beautiful addition to your home or you might choose to gift it to someone special.

Also included in the price is a yummy grazing platter, all you have to do is bring a friend if you wish, bring your favourite bottle of vino or bubbles and enjoy 2 hours of creativity.

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Resilient Heart

Science shows that the heart and mind are deeply connected, with the heart influencing our thoughts, emotions, and stress levels. By understanding this powerful connection, we can tap into the heart’s wisdom to enhance our emotional wellbeing and foster resilience. A unique workshop that combines:

• Heart-based meditation

• Introspective group conversation

• Expressing inner messages through a hand-sewn heart art project

• Exploring how concepts like Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs can nurture our hearts

Sarah Molnar, President of the non-profit organisation Art of the Minds, blends her academic background in psychology and creative arts with extensive experience in facilitation and the mental health field. She will guide you through this workshop to help you cultivate a resilient, open heart. Activate your heartspace with this unique workshop.

Session Duration: 2 hours

Cost: $40 per person

What to Bring: Any personal mementos you'd like to incorporate into your creative heart, and a journal for reflection.

Find out more - Sarah Molnar 0420 302 535

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Come and learn the traditional art of lino printing and use it to create bold, eye-catching designs. Guided through the process of carving their own lino block, they’ll then print their design onto a fabric pouch—turning a simple accessory into a one-of-a-kind, functional artwork.

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Come and create your very own mosaic mirror! In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to design, arrange, and set colourful tiles into a unique pattern that frames your mirror beautifully. Each piece will reflect your creativity, making it a functional artwork to take home and treasure.with Ellie from Beebops Art School

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Come and explore the delicate art of paper quilling. Using colourful strips of paper, they’ll learn how to roll, shape, and arrange quills into beautiful floral designs. Each piece will then be mounted onto a wooden backing board, creating a unique keepsake that’s perfect to display or gift. 

with Ellie from Beebops Art School

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Come and learn the art of scaling down images and turning them into a beautifully balanced artwork. Guided step by step, they’ll discover drawing and painting techniques that bring their work to life with realistic detail. Whether it’s fine lines, shading, or brushwork, participants will build confidence in their creative skills and walk away with an artwork they’ll be proud to display at home.

with Ellie from Beebops Art School

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Come and learn how to make a body scrub, bath bomb and lip balm. All made from non toxic and environmental kind products. 

with Ellie from Beebops Art School

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Come and learn how to make a body scrub, bath bomb and lip balm. All made from non toxic and environmental kind products. 

with Ellie from Beebops Art School

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Get creative these school holidays at a hands-on Pot Mosaic Workshop led by local artist Ellie from Beehop Designs! You'll design and decorate your own unique mosaic pot to take home – no experience needed and all materials provided!.

Held at The Light Box Torquay, this FREE workshop is open to young people aged 12–25 and offers a relaxed, welcoming space to try something new, meet others, and have some fun with art.

with Ellie from Beebops Art School supported by Surfcoast Shire Youth Development

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Discover the art of lino printmaking in this hands-on workshop designed for beginners and designed for fun! Learn the fundamentals of this versatile and rewarding technique, from designing your print to carving your lino block and printing your masterpiece.

The workshop is run by Emily Wright from Ahki Illustration who is well known locally for her bold black and white surf lino prints. She will help you to create your own ocean / nature inspired lino prints. Emily will guide you on how to break down an image into positive and negative spaces for carving, teach the process of taking drawings through to prints, and introduce easy tools and materials great for starting out and improving your skills.

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The roll top basket adds a twist to the Random weave workshop, quite literally! 

With Caroline Hawkins you’ll be forming a sculptural basket with vines, by commencing with a traditional wreath, which we then allow to expand out into a random weave basket.
The weaving technique known as ‘random weaving’, is a method which requires a balance of manipulation of the natural materials versus acceptance of the direction the material will take you.
The difference with the roll top version of random weaving is that it provides you with a specific starting point.

This workshop offers an introduction to the rolltop random weaving method and how to adapt the technique to suit a selection of plant materials and how to gather and prepare them.

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Discover the art of lino printmaking in this hands-on workshop designed for beginners and designed for fun! Learn the fundamentals of this versatile and rewarding technique, from designing your print to carving your lino block and printing your masterpiece.

The workshop is run by Emily Wright from Ahki Illustration who is well known locally for her bold black and white surf lino prints. She will help you to create your own ocean / nature inspired lino prints. Emily will guide you on how to break down an image into positive and negative spaces for carving, teach the process of taking drawings through to prints, and introduce easy tools and materials great for starting out and improving your skills.

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Join Caroline Hawkins to tap into your creative side and stimulate the imagination whilst playing with sticks to make a sculptural artwork. Do you have a quirky shaped vine waiting to be brought to life as a sculpture? Now is its moment!
In this workshop the shape of a collection of sticks or a small branch is used as a frame, across which sections can be 'twined' to emphasize the natural shape inherent in the sticks to create a sculpture.  'Twining' is a basket weaving method using a pair of fibres to weave around a frame. We will explore how to use this method to hold the sticks together in a three-dimensional form, filling in areas or weaving to create space within the form. 

Typical programme for this six hour workshop:  

• Spend the morning making samples to learn some basic basketry methods, such as cordage, twining and random weaving, to utilize as techniques.

• Guidance in developing a sculptural form and choice of materials.

• The afternoon provides the opportunity to create your own sculpture.

• Completion of works: the workshop focus is on learning techniques, students choosing to work on larger sculptural works may not necessarily finish their pieces within the time frame of this workshop.

An abundance of materials will be available to play with: sticks, vines, prepared plant fibres for twining, as well as colourful threads, strings and fabrics

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This workshop is all about building confidence painting botanicals. With seasonal flowers as our subject, we will learn how to break them down to achieve expressive paintings full of life. Best suited to students with experience in watercolour, there will be a focus on looseness, play and experimentation.

Skill level: Beginner - Intermediate (some watercolour experience advised)

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Discover the art of lino printmaking in this hands-on workshop designed for beginners and designed for fun! Learn the fundamentals of this versatile and rewarding technique, from designing your print to carving your lino block and printing your masterpiece.

The workshop is run by Emily Wright from Ahki Illustration who is well known locally for her bold black and white surf lino prints. She will help you to create your own ocean / nature inspired lino prints. Emily will guide you on how to break down an image into positive and negative spaces for carving, teach the process of taking drawings through to prints, and introduce easy tools and materials great for starting out and improving your skills.

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Spend the morning with Natalie learning the joys of loose, contemporary watercolour painting. Suitable for total beginners, you’ll learn some watercolour techniques and tricks, have a play and find your feet in the medium. After a refuel with some morning tea we will then work towards a floral inspired piece to take home.

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In this guided landscape painting workshop, you’ll learn how to paint skies, trees, hills and more using techniques such as blending as well as various paint strokes

Ages 6-12

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In this fun workshop, you’ll design a pattern or picture and paint your very own tote bag using fabric paints, textures and stencils. 

Ages 6-12

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Learn how to make beautiful, scented candles from scratch! In this fun workshop, you’ll mix wax, choose fragrances, and create your very own personalised candles to take home.   Ages 6-12

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Come and learn how to print using a gel plate, you’ll learn how to:
✨ Use a gel plate and acrylic paints to create beautiful layered prints
✨ Explore exciting textures with stencils, stamps, and everyday objects
✨ Experiment with colour mixing and ghost printing techniques
✨ Make unique prints perfect for journaling, cards, collage, or wall art Ages 6-12

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In this fun workshop, you’ll learn how to design and create your very own mosaic pot using various coloured, textured tiles.  Ages 6-12

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Unleash your creativity with a burst of colour! In this fun, hands-on workshop, you’ll paint your own textured papers and transform them into a vibrant rainbow collage.  Ages 6-12

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Enjoy the relaxing art of weaving and create your own beautiful wall hanging. This workshop teaches the basics of loom weaving, textures, and colour play.  Ages 6-12

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Learn how to craft a beautiful, glowing lantern decorated in a beautiful design using tissue paper. 

• Ages 6-12

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Create a personalised resin keychain using dry flowers set into resin as well as a decorative sculpted polymer clay pieces.  Ages 6-12

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Painting the Deep: Learn to Capture the Magic Beneath the Waves. Learn how to:

• use light, colour, and layering to paint realistic underwater scenes

• Techniques for blending water effects, painting coral reefs, fish and more

• Composition skills to create depth and flow

  Ages 6-12

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Discover the art of lino printmaking in this hands-on workshop designed for beginners and designed for fun! Learn the fundamentals of this versatile and rewarding technique, from designing your print to carving your lino block and printing your masterpiece.

The workshop is run by Emily Wright from Ahki Illustration who is well known locally for her bold black and white surf lino prints. She will help you to create your own ocean / nature inspired lino prints. Emily will guide you on how to break down an image into positive and negative spaces for carving, teach the process of taking drawings through to prints, and introduce easy tools and materials great for starting out and improving your skills.

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Tap into our intuitive knowledge of handling natural fibres and one of the oldest known crafts in human civilization in this Twined Basket weaving workshop.
Once learnt, the technique of ‘twining’ a pair of fibres around a frame can be used to create rigid frame baskets with a handle to flexible framed bags and bowls.

In this workshop, create your own small ‘twined’ basket over a flexible frame with a mix of locally harvested plant fibres, such as flax, red hot poker, cordyline, bulrush and tall spike rush. The workshop includes instruction in material preparation, setting up your frame, how to ‘twine’ around the frame and detailed steps in finishing the rim of your basket. The day will include a wander nearby to identify suitable weaving plants, as well as discussion on the history of traditional and contemporary basket making.
Twined basket making has its challenges and whilst not essential, is ideally suited to those with existing craft skills or those who have already attended the Stitched and Coiled basket making workshop.

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CREATIVE JOURNAL COLLAGE SESSION

Unleash your creativity and dive into the world of mixed-media journaling. Join Andrea Shaw for a Creative Journal Collage Session, where a brown kraft notebook will become your vessel for combining collage, hand lettering, and drawing techniques to create a personalised journal full of inspiration and self-expression. It’s a great way to get off the tech and connect to your creative self.

Explore a range of themes, experiment with composition, and enjoy the freedom to make your journal authentically your own. Whether you’re keen to explore working purely with images and collage, writing poems or painting patterns, all ideas and styles are welcome and encouraged to explore.

This session is LGBTQ+ friendly and open to participants aged 12+. If under 16, we encourage adults to attend alongside their child for an afternoon of creativity and connection.

What’s included:

• Brown A5 kraft notebook to work in and take home. Option to make an A4 artwork if preferred.

• An awesome array of image resources, vintage books and magazines, and collage sheets

• Tips and tricks for collage composition and hand lettering

• Drawing materials, stamps, stickers and glue tape (yours to keep!)

Collage journaling is a fun and accessible way to explore art, personal expression and storytelling, and it’s easy to continue at home. By the end of the session, you’ll have your own unique journal and plenty of inspiration to keep creating.

Andrea has extensive experience working with diverse groups and facilitating arts workshops. She holds a current WWC and Police Check. Workshops are capped to 12 participants. Some light refreshments will be provided.

Cost: $110

Come and enjoy an afternoon of connection and creative journaling!

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