creative, social workshops.

celebrate.

Seasonally focused, creative workshops where you will leave with something beautiful you have produced, new skills and plenty of laughs from your day.

  • Arranging the Flowers.

    Learn tips for arranging flowers, foliage and fruits in your favourite vase. With a focus on seasonality, creativity and the whimsy and characterful nature of locally grown ingredients, you will be introduced to tricks and design tips around colour, balance and proportion.

    Experience the flowers out in the field with a walk through my growing space and a chance to bring any questions you have around growing and picking for the vase.

    You will leave with confidence in your arranging abilities, a broadened awareness of what you can grow, gather and forage for the vase, and your own beautiful floral arrangement. 

  • Festive Wreath Making.

    This is a great workplace social event to get the festive spirit flowing or a fun anytime class for a bunch of friends.

    Learn to make a beautifully textural, natural, everlasting wreath. You will have a range of foliage, dried florals and grapevine wreath bases (grown here in Paroa) to use. Soak up tips and tricks and enjoy the creative process, taking home a classic, seasonal work of art for your wall.

  • Make a Flower Crown.

    A fun, creative idea for a Hen’s party, children’s birthday party (inquire for children’s party package) or a perfectly random Sunday!

    Depending on the season, we will be able to use dried or fresh flowers to make the flower crowns. Crowns can be anywhere on the scale between ‘whimsical garden fairy’ and bold and colourful ‘Mexican Señorita’.

    Crowns are finished with an adjustable length of ribbon and can be dried and hung as a sculptural piece of art on your kids’ bedroom wall (as mine have done!).

  • Paint and Sip.

    A classic, social, entertaining session of painting and ‘hydrating’.

    Learn some tips about drawing and painting the flowers. Leave feeling like a real artist, finished artwork in hand to hang up in pride of place at home.

    A (less messy!) equally lovely iteration of this class is ‘Pastels and Prosecco’. Draw the flowers in pastels and sip on bubbles.

    And another fun twist is the (also paint free) ‘Drink and Draw’ where you will take home tips and tricks as well as a wee sketch pad and drawing pencil to carry on your new hobby in your own time!

Details

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Workshops are customisable, flexible and fun. No prior abilities are required.

Grazing platters, materials and tutoring all provided.

Venues: Speight’s Ale House, at your workplace/space or in my Paroa garden (weather dependant).

Contact me to enquire about dates, types of workshops, numbers and pricing.

Reviews

“

Phoebe hosted an incredible 'arrange the flowers' workshop. She created a relaxed, casual atmosphere, and her laid back style made it feel easy to lean into my creativity arranging flowers for the first time. Phoebe makes arranging flowers look easier than it is, her simple tips and tricks allowed her stunning flowers to speak for themselves. The buckets of flowers we had to choose from were the perfect backdrop for the workshop in her home garden, we were spoilt for choice putting our arrangements together.

Seeing her field and learning how it was developed inspired me to develop my own flower garden.

Thank you Phoebe, I can't wait for the next one!

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- Sarah

“

I attended Phoebe’s first event held in her garden last summer, and it was a great way to gain an insight into how the flower paddock works, and the process Phoebe uses to create her bouquets. I grow lots of flowers at home (many from Phoebe’s spare dahlia bulbs which she sells) but cannot ever get my arrangements looking whimsical and floaty like her bunches do. It was a great chance to learn the process of creating an arrangement, using different types of flowers or foliage for different effect. So amazing too that everything we used in the workshop was home grown!

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- Cara

Make it fun

As an experienced art teacher, workshops are my happy place. Team them with a wine and some snacks and we are winning!

Let me help make your next event something different to your usual celebration. No prior creative skills are required and all materials, tips and tricks are organised and supplied to get the right-hand side of your brain firing.

My goal is always to create an experience for you that is relaxed and achievable. Even if you claim to be unable to draw a stick figure- I’ve got you!

Go on, gather your friends, line up some laughs and give something new a try.

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