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Natures Textures Rockpool Workshop

DATES: Sunday 29th June - Wednesday 2nd July 2025

VENUE: Born Kraal, Byron Bay Hinterland (20 mins from Byron town centre), Australia

TIME: 10.00am - 4.00pm daily.

COST: $1700.00 pp includes tuition, all materials catering and tea and snacks daily.

Non Refundable Deposit of $500.00 required to secure your booking. Individual payment plans are welcome. Email: fleurwoodsart@gmail.com

This workshop is a 4 day exploration into creating textural embroidery inspired by nature to make your own rockpool inspired artwork. We’ll be using a neutral colour palette for this work to really highlight and explore the textures in depth.

During our time together we will investigate how you can use mixed media including air dry clay, vintage textiles, beads and soft sculpture techniques in your contemporary stitched artworks to create your own unique piece.

We will begin by playing with hand building elements with air dry clay, making soft sculptures using rope wrapping, stuffed forms and hand stitched shapes, We’ll also create beautiful elements with beading and repurposing jewellery.

There will be an opportunity to visit near by Lennox Head beach to explore the landscape and textures to inspire our works.

Layering textiles, adding textural elements like punch needle, creating your own beads and mini clay sculptures to add to your work and more,

This workshop will be full of alchemy and adventurous art making to inspire your creativity, expand your techniques and allow you to create your own abstract embroidered artwork inspired by the ocean.

Our small group size of maximum 12 people will allow us to really work together one on one to meet you where you are at and support your creative goals.

WORKSHOP OVERVIEW:

We will gather daily from 10am - 4pm explore mixed media and stitch to create your own contemporary rockpool embroidery.

Generous materials are supplied and lunch is catered daily (please let me know if you have any dietary requirements, it is no problem to cater to any requirements)

Cost: $1,700 pp includes all tuition, materials, catered lunch, tea and snacks each day.

A $500.00 non-refundable deposit is required to book your place in the workshop. Balance is required three weeks before the workshop. This website listing is for your deposit payment only

Individual payment plans are welcome; please email me fleurwodsart@gmail.com to discuss.

Minimum numbers are required for this workshop; should the minimum numbers fall short, your deposit will be refunded in full. Typically, workshops fill quickly. If something happens and you can no longer make it, I will try my best to fill your spot from the waitlist. If that is not possible, I won’t be able to refund the balance of the workshop. Travel insurance is recommended if you are coming from out of town.

Venue: Respectfully named after the African term Kraal, an enclosed area where you keep your precious possessions safe, is our newest Byron home, ‘Born Kraal’. This wonderful property is home to one of the oldest historical Moreton bay fig trees in New South Wales and is surrounded by captivating lush green surroundings that allow you to immerse yourself in nature.

There are usually plenty of accomodation options from hotels to air bnbs within a short drive of the venue, Byron town centre is around 20 mintues drive away. The closest village is Newrybar.

Experience: ideally, you will know how to thread a needle and perhaps a few simple stitches, or you may be very experienced and looking to explore a new style. My workshops are designed to suit all experience levels as I keep our group small allowing for plenty of one on one time to help you meet your creative goals.

Questions: there are no silly ones, you are so welcome to email me any time and ask away. fleurwoodsart@gmail.com

Really excited to geek out about all things colour, texture, textile, thread and floral for a whole 5 days together!

X Fleur

More about my teaching philosophy and the week’s workshop…

My goal is to meet you where you are at as an individual creative and support you to grow gently but surely towards joyful mark making using my favourite techniques.

I facilitate a safe and welcoming environment for anyone joining my workshops, my teaching style is warm and relaxed. My intuition for the process and working with fellow creative souls is strong. I aim to adjust my approach for individuals as well as each group to ensure that no matter your learning style or experience level you feel embraced and supported to fully explore your creative potential.

I'll openly share my process of hand painting linen, designing your unique artwork inspired by flora and stitching using contemporary embroidery practices.

During the five days we will cover off all of the key elements of my process so you have the practical skills to create with joy but also bring those skills together into either a small finished stitched artwork or a larger ongoing project (your choice depending on what size you'd like to work with).

Generous supplies are offered that you are gifted to take home with you to continue creating whenever you like using all of my favourite tools from beautiful hand dyed wools, specially selected vintage textiles and so much more.

Stitching is a slow practice so we will embrace that pace and while we're in slow down mode there will also be lazy lunches, time for a wander and a quiet cuppa and chats with your fellow work-shoppers or for those who are just obsessed there's the option to create and eat and deep dive.

It's your time to do as you please with generous knowledge sharing and support.

Here’s a bit more about me incase you’d like to share this experience with a friend who doesn’t know my work…

Fleur Woods is a Contemporary Embroidery artist based in rural South Island, Aotearoa New Zealand.  Fleur's intricate, joyful stitched paintings are coveted and collected around the world. Featured in many, many magazines and exhibited from her local gallery in rural NZ to the Lower East side NY. Whilst prioritising studio practice Fleur also adores teaching and selects beautiful locations to teach her sought after workshops in both New Zealand and Australia. As a largely self taught artist Fleur's processes are unique, free and playful. She embraces colour and texture and prioritises joy in the process.

Inspired by nature, country gardens, wild flowers, native bush and all things flora Fleur brings her passion for the outdoors into the classroom encouraging students to take time to notice the beautiful details in nature and bring this into their work. A natural collaborator Fleur's approach to teaching is one of working in small groups to enable participants to follow their individual creative goals, so while the workshop will have themes and technical elements that are offered for group learning there is plenty of one on one support available to meet you where you are at and help you progress to the next level.

Find out more about Fleur & her process in this recent interview with Fibre Arts Take Two

https://youtu.be/A3Gtpe9pkiY

or read more here in these articles

https://homestyle.co.nz/daily-thread/

https://www.kyalandkara.com/inspiration/fleur-woods/

https://www.huntingforgeorge.com/blog/meet-the-artist-fleur-woods/