Upcoming Workshops
Autumn Holiday Kids -Sew your own plushie
Come and learn how to sew your own plushie and decorate your special friend with some beautiful embroidery. Ages 5-12
Autumn Holiday Kids -Resin Engraved Cutting Board
Get in quick to this VERY popular workshop. Participants will learn how to mix and pigment their resin and the various skills involved in pouring their resin to create their desired pattern. Participants will need to collect their serving tray the following day.Ages 5-12
Autumn Holiday Kids -Needle Felted Fairy Garden
Come and learn how to needle felt and create a gorgeous fairy garden full of magic. Spark your imagination by making tiny plants, insects, toadstools and fairy houses. Ages 5-12
Autumn Holiday Kids -Painted Wooden Art
Come and design and paint a pattern on your choice of wooden wall hooks.
Please specify at the checkout what shape you would like to work with.
Heart
Flower
Cat
Butterfly
Ages 5-12
Autumn Holiday Kids -Alcohol Ink Art
Come and learn how to use alcohol ink and posca paint pens to create a beautiful art work. Ages 5-12
Autumn Holiday Kids - Resin Serving Tray
Get in quick to this VERY popular workshop. Participants will learn how to mix and pigment their resin and the various skills involved in pouring their resin to create their desired pattern. Participants will need to collect their serving tray the following day. Ages 5-12
Autumn Holiday Kids -Lino Printing Tote Bag and Purse
Come and learn how to carve your own lino prints and apply them to a bag and purse. Ages 5-12
Autumn Holiday Kids -Pressed Flower Keychain
Come and make some beautiful personalised keychains with a variety of embellishments and polymer clay charm. Ages 5-12
Learning Lino - Printmaking workshop
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.
Learning Lino - Printmaking workshop
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.
Six Week Acrylic Painting Course
A Six -Week Acrylic Art Course
Get ready to unleash your creativity in a fun and relaxed six-week painting course. Whether you’re a complete beginner or an experienced artist looking to loosen up, this course will guide you through the magic of colour mixing, brushwork, and expressive painting styles inspired by Van Gogh, Monet, and beyond.
We’ll explore different techniques, play with bold colours, and experiment with styles that bring your unique artistic voice to life. This isn’t about perfection - it’s about enjoying the process, embracing happy accidents, and discovering the joy of painting in a supportive and inspiring space.
Course Details
Starts: Thursday, May 1st
Time: Thursdays, 6:30 – 8:00 pm
Cost: $275 (all materials included, just bring yourself!)
To Book email: paintwithpammie@gmail.com
Pammie is an artist who loves working intuitively and spontaneously, letting creativity lead the way. For over 25 years, I’ve been teaching both kids and adults, helping them connect with their inner artist. I’ve seen firsthand how painting can spark confidence, joy, and self-expression and I can’t wait to share that experience with you.
Intro to Watercolour with Natalie Martin
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.
Stitched Basket Workshop
In this workshop, learn how to create a stitched and coiled basket using locally gathered plant fibres.
Choose from a variety of plant fibres to form the ‘core’ of the basket, which is then ‘coiled and stitched’ together with hemp twine. Step by step guidance will be offered in material preparation, starting the coil, stitching method, shaping and finishing your basket. The day will include a wander through the park to identify suitable plants for weaving, as well as discussion on the history of traditional and contemporary basket making.
Learning Lino - Printmaking workshop
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.
Creative Journal Collage Session
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!
Follow along over at @paper_club_sc
Twined Basket Workshop
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.
source - http://www.carolinehawkins.com.au
Intro to Watercolour with Natalie Martin
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.
Contemporary Botanical Intermediate Watercolour with Natalie Martin
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)
Resilient Heart- activate your heartspace
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
instagram @sinikka_paints
Intro to Watercolour with Natalie Martin
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.
Learning Lino - Printmaking workshop
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.
Random Weave Workshop
Creative play as you learn how to form a sculptural basket with vines.
The weaving technique known as ‘random weaving’, is a process which requires a balance of manipulation of the natural materials versus acceptance of the direction the material will take you. Creative expression evolves as the individual pieces take shape through our innate need to create order out of chaos.
This workshop offers an introduction to the random weaving method and how to adapt the technique to suit a selection of plant materials and how to gather and prepare them.
Calm with Colour w/Brittany March
Take a moment for yourself to discover the soothing world of soft pastels. This workshop offers a sanctuary from the busyness—a place to unwind, rediscover yourself, and delve into your creativity while learning to craft your own soft pastel artwork. Under my guidance, you’ll learn how to capture the beauty of nature with soft pastels, step by step. No prior experience is necessary—just bring your desire to relax and explore your creative side. Join us for a few peaceful hours and leave with a beautiful piece of art and a refreshed spirit.
Materials
All materials are provided for your use on the day. You will leave the workshop with your very own soft pastel artwork.
Why Soft Pastels?
Creating with your hands can be deeply fulfilling. Soft pastels provide a rich, tactile experience that engages the senses. Their smooth, buttery texture allows for seamless blending and layering, creating a soothing process both visually and physically. As you lose yourself in the art of creating, you’ll discover a meditative flow that calms your mind and refreshes your soul.
This workshop is ideal for you if you want to:
Learn the basics of creating with soft pastels
Explore your creativity in a relaxed, supportive atmosphere
Deepen your connection with nature
Gain a new perspective through an artist’s eyes
Get your hands dusty with a fun, tactile medium
Take home your own soft pastel landscape artwork
info source: brittanymarch.com.au
Intro to Watercolour with Natalie Martin
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.
Colourful Macrame Planthanger
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. - Anita
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 - 3 hours of creativity.
source: knotsbyanita.com
Bush Animal
Hand-build with hay to create a colourful, sculptural animal. The simplicity of wrapping wool around hay requires no tools and few materials and great results can be achieved with just a sense of fun and imagination.
In this workshop you will be guided in
*creating a base form with hay appropriate to your chosen animal
*divide the straw into the main features
*techniques in wrapping with wool
*finishing the details of your animal
The method of making a ‘bush toy’ is an indigenous art form and was taught to Caroline by Gunditjmara master weaver Bronwyn Razem, who has given me permission to teach and share this art form.
source http://www.carolinehawkins.com.au
Calm with Colour w/Brittany March
Take a moment for yourself to discover the soothing world of soft pastels. This workshop offers a sanctuary from the busyness—a place to unwind, rediscover yourself, and delve into your creativity while learning to craft your own soft pastel artwork. Under my guidance, you’ll learn how to capture the beauty of nature with soft pastels, step by step. No prior experience is necessary—just bring your desire to relax and explore your creative side. Join us for a few peaceful hours and leave with a beautiful piece of art and a refreshed spirit.
Materials
All materials are provided for your use on the day. You will leave the workshop with your very own soft pastel artwork.
Why Soft Pastels?
Creating with your hands can be deeply fulfilling. Soft pastels provide a rich, tactile experience that engages the senses. Their smooth, buttery texture allows for seamless blending and layering, creating a soothing process both visually and physically. As you lose yourself in the art of creating, you’ll discover a meditative flow that calms your mind and refreshes your soul.
This workshop is ideal for you if you want to:
Learn the basics of creating with soft pastels
Explore your creativity in a relaxed, supportive atmosphere
Deepen your connection with nature
Gain a new perspective through an artist’s eyes
Get your hands dusty with a fun, tactile medium
Take home your own soft pastel landscape artwork
info source: brittanymarch.com.au
What is Love Exhibition opening
Join us to launch the What Is Love Exhibition of works by artists and friends of The Light Box.
Learning Lino - Printmaking workshop
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.
Intro to Watercolour with Natalie Martin
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.
Creative Journal Collage Session
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 poetry or creating a dream journal 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
An array of image resources, magazines, and collage sheets (to keep)
Tips and tricks for collage composition and hand lettering
Drawing materials 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.
Come and enjoy an afternoon of connection and creative journaling!
A$110.00
Follow along over at @sc_collage_club
Summer Holiday Kids -Resin Pouring and Etching
Design a picture and then learn how to use tools to engrave your design into a wooden chopping board. You will then learn how to mix, work and pour resin to compete your board.
Workshop is appropriate for 9yrs+
Summer Holiday Kids -Watercolour
Come and learn some beautiful watercolour painting techniques. In this marine inspired workshop, you will paint along with the teacher and gain some wonderful skills that will bring your art work to life. Ages 5-12
Summer Holiday Kids -Fairy Lights
Come and make you very own fairy light garland. Using a variety of materials, create some beautiful paper that will be made into pyramid lanterns, surrounding a string of fairy lights.
Summer Holiday Kids - Terrariums
Come and learn how to build your very own terrarium and also make some gorgeous polymer clay woodland figurines that bring your terrarium to life! Ages 5-12
Summer Holiday Kids - Alcohol Ink Art
Using alcohol inks and other mediums, you will create a wonderful collage that you will be proud to hang on a wall. Ages 5-12
Summer Holiday Kids -Polymer Clay Pens
Using polymer clay, you will learn how to make various canes as well as marbling techniques to make decorative pens. Ages 5-12
Summer Holiday Kids -Macrame Water Bottle Holder
In this workshop, you will learn knotting techniques that will help you make a macrame water bottle holder.
Summer Holiday Kids -Mosaic Trinket Box
Come and learn the art of mosaics, you'll be taken through the process from creating a design to learning how to adhere the tiles to your very own trinket box.
Summer Holiday Kids - Dream Catcher Weaving
Learn how to weave a traditional dream catcher. You will begin by wrapping your ring and then weaving the catcher. You will learn how to finish your dream catcher with decorative tassels and ribbons.
Summer Holiday Kids -Layered Paper Art
Using multiple layers of paper, you will create a 3D piece of art. The layers are placed on top of each other, each layer creating depth and developing the background, middle ground and then foreground.
wreath making
Come and join in the Christmas spirit - as we make beautiful floral wreaths together. You will learn how to make a wreath
using native flowers and foliage - which will last when dried also.
All funds raised will go towards Compassion International - which helps to fight global poverty. Did you know - over 355 million children are trapped in poverty? You can sponsor a child through compassion on the day, but all all funds raised from our wreath making will go toward providing clean and sanitary water and to the unsponsored
children’s fund.
Light Christmas snacks and drinks will be provided. Invite a friend!
wreath making
Come and join in the Christmas spirit - as we make beautiful floral wreaths together. You will learn how to make a wreath
using native flowers and foliage - which will last when dried also.
All funds raised will go towards Compassion International - which helps to fight global poverty. Did you know - over 355 million children are trapped in poverty? You can sponsor a child through compassion on the day, but all all funds raised from our wreath making will go toward providing clean and sanitary water and to the unsponsored
children’s fund.
Light Christmas snacks and drinks will be provided. Invite a friend!
https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1318941
Blanket Stitch for Basketry
Blanket Stitch for Basketry
First nations people use blanket stitch to make baskets; with pandunus in the north and in our part of the world traditionally with a very common plant: Lomandra. Once the stitch is mastered it can be adapted to use with a variety of materials for neckalce pendants to sturdy functional basket
This workshop commences with the foundational skills in Blanket Stitch and how to start a coiled disc using raffia.
Start your coil
Choose between using your raffia disc as a pendant with matching earrings, sister basket or small basket.
Have a go at developing the skill with lomandra. Caroline will have lomandra on hand will demonstrate how to prepare it for basketweaving.
The afternoon will include discussion of the traditional and contemporary craft of basketry and acknowledge the skills of first nations people who made baskets using similar methods and certainly would have known how to use lomandra for basketweaving.
I pay my respects to indigenous weaver Aunty Bronwyn Razem who passed on the knowledge of how to use the method to make sister baskets
Chunky Sisal Macrame Pot Holder
Create your own Chunky Sisal Pothanger (wooden pot included)- $95
You will create an awesome chunky Sisal Plant Hanger that will become a statement piece in your home. You will learn the macrame knot needed to make this awesome textural hanger. You can choose to create your hanger in the brown jute sisal cord or the cream boho cord, both cords are thick and chunky. A beautiful large wooden pot is included.
The Art Of Collage
The Art Of Collage with Lizzie and Bronwyn
For beginners and beyond.
Learn a variety of techniques to make a beautifully finished work including pasting, colour theory and the elements of design. Most materials supplied, Just bring your sharp paper scissors.
In The Mix At Six with Martine Oderio
Hoop Gallery would like to welcome you to our (freshly named) ‘In The Mix at Six’ creative conversations as we passionately believe in empowering the artist’s voice on the Surf Coast.
We are thrilled to announce that Martine Oderio from The Ligh Box Torquay is teaming up with Hoop Gallery Without Walls to share her unique story and creative journey as our guest at ‘In The Mix at Six’.
'My work celebrates creative exploration, and making art accessible to all. Inspired by love for the Torquay and Surf Coast community, my most recent series of work recreates local trees and scenery as clay sculptures, painted with acrylics. With each piece, I acknowledge a life, a form, or colours that enrich my daily lived experience walking to early morning dips, taking the dogs to the beach, or driving my family around town. Recognisable to locals, the trees evoke stories and memories and feelings that engage audiences of all ages and interests. Through my studio, The Light Box Torquay, I encourage others to unleash their creativity via workshops and studio practice, reminding us of the beauty in play. '
Get ready for an inspiring evening filled with art, stories, and a celebration of creativity!
Random Weave Workshop
Creative play as you learn how to form a sculptural basket with vines.
The weaving technique known as ‘random weaving’, is a process which requires a balance of manipulation of the natural materials versus acceptance of the direction the material will take you. Creative expression evolves as the individual pieces take shape through our innate need to create order out of chaos.
This workshop offers an introduction to the random weaving method and how to adapt the technique to suit a selection of plant materials and how to gather and prepare them.
Soft Pastels w/Brittany March
Take a moment for yourself to discover the soothing world of soft pastels. This workshop offers a sanctuary from the busyness—a place to unwind, rediscover yourself, and delve into your creativity while learning to craft your own soft pastel artwork. Under my guidance, you’ll learn how to capture the beauty of nature with soft pastels, step by step. No prior experience is necessary—just bring your desire to relax and explore your creative side. Join us for a few peaceful hours and leave with a beautiful piece of art and a refreshed spirit.
Materials
All materials are provided for your use on the day. You will leave the workshop with your very own soft pastel artwork.
Why Soft Pastels?
Creating with your hands can be deeply fulfilling. Soft pastels provide a rich, tactile experience that engages the senses. Their smooth, buttery texture allows for seamless blending and layering, creating a soothing process both visually and physically. As you lose yourself in the art of creating, you’ll discover a meditative flow that calms your mind and refreshes your soul.
This workshop is ideal for you if you want to:
Learn the basics of creating with soft pastels
Explore your creativity in a relaxed, supportive atmosphere
Deepen your connection with nature
Gain a new perspective through an artist’s eyes
Get your hands dusty with a fun, tactile medium
Take home your own soft pastel landscape artwork
info source: brittanymarch.com.au