This workshop will focus on the design, construction, and carving of traditional Waka Hoe or wooden paddles using both hand and power tools.

*This Workshop is now Fully Booked*
Take your writing to the next level with award-winning novelist Paula Morris. Develop the skills you need to write stories, novels, personal essays or memoirs – from point of view and narrative structure to character, setting and dialogue.

*This Workshop is now Fully Booked*
Discover the captivating art of glass casting in this fun and intensive 5 day workshop. Working with wax, clay and a variety of other materials, participants will gain an understanding of mould making and the lost wax method with the goal of creating a beautiful and unique piece of glasswork.

Over 5 days, filmmaker Paul Janman will be guiding participants through the fundamentals of making a creative short (2 min) documentary film and equipping them with the skills to tell their own impactful audio-visual stories.

Learn about etching with specialist Jan Philip Raath of Auckland Print Studio. It would be entirely possible to create a finalised etching or a small edition of prints, but the focus of this workshop is to develop methodologies and a strong skill set that will help participants to achieve consistent, repeatable results using the etching techniques of hard ground and aquatint.

Based on the principles of Japanese woodblock carving and printing (mokuhanga), this creative workshop will introduce the extensive possibilities of this low tech printing method. At the end of this 5 day workshop, participants will possess a vital toolkit of printmaking techniques that can be easily built upon or added to their individualised art practice.

Take part in this 5 day exploratory oil painting workshop, creating sketchbook content and building a body of work inspired by the heritage architecture and natural landscape of Corban Estate Arts Centre.

This ever-popular term class explores abstract painting concepts and techniques utilising acrylic paints, gels and additives.

What would you like to shape in clay - something functional or ornamental? This class offers the opportunity to experiment with a variety of modelling techniques to discover handling this material.

This intense one day workshop will cover approximately 12 different types of stitching used in embroidery, one of the oldest crafts, currently making a huge revival.

In this workshop participants will explore some of the core encaustic techniques such as layering, fusing, blending, embedding, incising and image transfer.

Art journaling is a fabulous way of getting creative for all those with limited time or space. Working in an A4 sketchbook we will create page after page of amazing miniature artworks.