Every artwork begins with curiosity. Join Fi in the studio and discover where your own creative expedition begins.

Studio Sessions with Fi

Small-group, Creative Reset Intensives 8:30 - 10am, 13th - 15th September (before Margaret River Region Open Studios, open for the day).

Held exclusively  during MRROS or by appointment for small private groups.

Ever wondered how artists develop their ideas, solve creative problems or build rich, layered artwork?

Join Fi for a series of energetic, hands-on 90-minute studio sessions where she shares the thinking, techniques and creative processes behind her work. These are practical, small-group workshops designed to build confidence, spark new ideas and give you skills you can continue using long after the session ends.

Whether you're just beginning your creative journey or looking for fresh inspiration, you'll leave with new knowledge, practical experience and a project to continue exploring at home.

Each session is limited to 6 participants, creating plenty of opportunity for individual guidance and discussion - You'll have access to Fi's brain -These aren't boring old beginner art classes—they're 're-set' sessions  in creative exploration and process.

$250 per session

or

Attend all three sessions for $650 (save $100 + $25 gift voucher to use in the studio).

Every participant also receives:

•  delicious morning tea at the end of the session

   session notes

• all materials supplied

• a take-home project and creative prompts

Choose your focus:

Session 1. 

Seeing Like an Artist

Interpreting Australian Botanicals

Learn how to move beyond copying what you see and begin interpreting Australian plants in your own unique way.

We'll explore observation, simplification, composition and storytelling while discussing what makes a subject interesting and how artists make creative decisions.

Bring a favourite botanical specimen or photograph (and your sketchbook if you have one). Through guided exercises you'll develop new ways of observing and communicating the beauty of Australian flora.

Session 2. 

Colour with Confidence

• Lets ask and answer the commone problems around colour -
• How do I develop my own colour style?
• Mix it Up - How do I avoid muddy colours?
  
• How do I choose colours that work together?
• How do I stop buying paint I never use?
  
• Learn about personal colour diaries and take home your own recipe book to keep working with.

Session 3.

Layers, Texture & Creative Play

Build Beautiful Surfaces

Hands on exploring - using gelli plates to create beautiful colours, intriguing patterns and textures and a range of papers to take away to use and develop. Discover and learn some great tips for constructing your unique surfaces, using a variety of mark making materials  and mediums - and lets talk about how to know when to stop. 

Testimonial:

"Fi removes the fear many beginners experience, replacing it with confidence, curiosity and a genuine desire to keep creating."

— Remi Shan

Housekeeping:

Please arrive 15 mins early for your session.

Fi is an established and well respected workshop facilitator. Her strong reputation working in communtiy engagement visual arts programs, comes from her lively and dynamic teaching style and her generosity to share what she has learnt along her way.

She connects readily with  participants, thru play and experimentation and demonstrates her  trial and error approach, building confidence, delivering experience and offering insight into what it means to work in a truely creative and intuitve, personal way.

As a teacher, she passionately believes in the power of developing our creative confidence and capacity for self expression, to not only improve our personal experience of life but to build  better communites and ultimately a better world in which to live.

"Every child draws and begins to learn to understand the world around them using their mark making, story telling and building instincts - We have all been born with a deep creative capacity, some of us just let this slip away, lost track of time or lost our path, so encourageing and upskilling others to confidently reconnect with this part of them, in a light and playful way, is why these sessions exist. 

Finding our own visual style, and giving it our own voice, is one of the most empowering acts we can perform. If we gift ourselves the opportunity and time to strart to do it - who knows what we might discover! This is what I strive to do with participants of the reset sessions - to help them to loose the fear, sidestep the procrastination and to just begin where they are with what they have".

These sessions are perfect for small groups of family or friends. Restarters, new beginners and lapsed artists all find these valuble. You are welcome to request your own private time slot if you have 2 people to start.

Is this for you?
No skills are required, you just need an ability to follow instructions in English 
**We aim to make this workshop as accessible as possible so if you have any physical constraints please let us know in advance and we can tweak the workshop for you.
This is a small group session so Fi is on hand to help you where and when needed.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO BRING:

Just BYO  water bottle.

Complimentary Morning tea is supplied at the conclusion of the session.

**Please note our small group Cancellation Policy:
Due to small group logistics/ advance preparation and limited resources we have strict cancellation policies-
We appreciate your understanding.

During MRROS, a min number of 2 participants is required to run these sessions. If the session is not subscribed to, your booking will be refunded in full and a notification sent 24 hours prior to the time slot.

As sessions are often fully booked and sold out please keep intouch early if you need to change your plans.
$50 admin fee for late cancellations / less than 7 days prior to date. Sorry no refund for cancellations less than 48 hours in advance.
We work up close with others - so please do not attend if you are unwell.

If Toot Studio needs to cancel due to circumstances out of our control, a full refund and a complimentary gift voucher will be received.