What a fabulous day and what a great venue to hold our Pressed Floral Art Workshop at the Dutch Marketplace amongst the beautiful flowers in the nursery. It was a relaxing day where students learnt about different flowers from the delightful Lis Moon. She offered an array of pressed flowers and leaves and taught everyone how to arrange and glue these delicate flowers on cards. Lots of patience required but even mistakes or tears where easily rectified. Nothing was wasted a truly eco friendly...

We had our first workshop this year and invited the 'force of nature' that is Deana our excellent art teacher back to do a landscape painting workshop in Acrylics. We had some beginners and more experienced artists but we all learnt something new. Check out the wonderful masterpieces we all produced! We started with plonking the paint on the canvas that eventually became the background. Then we added the tree and flowers. Acrylics is always a tad messy but we enjoyed a relaxing few hours in...

Our last workshop of the year was a resounding success! From five star reviews for our teacher to five star reviews for our lunch, our students were really pleased with their experience today! Our inspirational tutor Deana Kim Page came up trumps again, drawing amazing results from both beginners and the experienced as we played with masking fluid and wet on wet techniques to create a set of six unique Christmas cards each. Messy, crazy fun!