With 11 years experience and many workshops facilitated,
Kathryn would welcome you to take part in classes that are
suited to your needs and to your mosaic project aspirations.  
Please feel free to make enquiries about any of the classes below.                                
 MASTER CLASSES
Full day, half day and weekend workshops are given on
specific advanced mosaic techniques for individuals or groups.
    
Substrate making workshop
    
Push method into coloured thinset
    
Tiles for the AFTER Black Saturday mural
 
Childrens' drawn images and 'themselves' made in mixed media materials
Please feel free to enquire with any questions any time.
ON-GOING Weekly 
Each week, mosaic enthusiastists meet at The Art of Mosaic Studio
in Kyneton to work on and complete their particular projects.
Hosted by Geraldine Phelan, ceramicist and mosaicist with an
extensive exhibition history, high quality instruction and guidance
comes from two teachers sharing a creative mosaic experience.
      
      
Projects are nurtured through concept, construction and decoration over weekly sessions.
Please feel free to enquire with any questions any time.   

SUSTAINABLE PRACTICE
Full day workshops featuring methods and techniques that are
respectful and sensitive to the planet and its resources.  Learn
how to get more from your natural and commercial resources
by altering their appearance (using fire and water).  Convert
found objects into substrates or mould your own in a sand bed.
Gain independence and confidence to build your own website
and manage your own marketing and fundraising campaigns.
Work with tools, props and methods that don't drain your energy.          
      
Using fire for distortion                  Materials become unique                  Tumbled resources

    
Preparing natural materials         Moulding sand for substrate        Recycled bicycle wheel substrate
Please feel free to enquire with any questions any time.

ART4ASHES
Custom designing the vessel in which a love one's ashes will
be placed is a cathartic opportunity offered to those who may
be in a position to consider this option.  Sensitive support and
guidance ensures a sculpture (large or small, indoors or for
outside) is created in loving memory and that it represents the
family member well using personal items and favourite colours.
     
     
This all white collection was created for the Art4Ashes exhibition in
Kyneton and was on display in Federation Square in July 2011.
Vessels were individual sculptures for a workspace, 16 homes,
an adult, a teenager, an infant and an unborn feotus.
Together they stood in unison to pose the question what if?
              
      
The 'what if' collection                The market building that             Residents donated materials
at the exhibition in Kyneton        burned in 1995                          to acknowledge their loss
November 2010                         and now fully restored                on Black Saturday in 2009
      
Youthful language sums up the life of the teenager within          Cot rails and overhead mobile
Kathryn can work one-on-one with people who would like to
create a customised ashes vessel or be commissioned to make
a sculpture after close consultation to determine the required
outcome.  Please feel free to enquire with any questions.  

INTENSIVE
A one week course jam packed with information, hands-on
activities and demonstrations, site and shop visits and enough
practical time to design and complete a mosaic project. 

Highlights include

• A tour of 7 local public art installations (2 by the artist).
  
• A shopping trip to a mosaic glass studio and a ceramic studio.
• Visit a stonemason for supplies.
• Discuss armature at a metal working studio.
• Browse 5 local stores selling pique assiete supplies. 
• Design, material selection and substrate preparation day.
• 2 full days of fabrication of your project including some materials.
• Demonstrations of tools, including hammer and hardie.
• Glass cutting, clay forming and inlay method.
• Pixellated tweezer work and more.....

      
Presentation as a visual aid                     Demonstration of substrate methods         Hammer and Hardie exercise
  
Fine tweezer picture making       Clay and precious gem details    Glass cutting demonstration

The Intensive Course schedule is based around the accommodation
intake period of Friday to Friday at the nearby Kyneton
Bushland Resort.  You are encouraged to contact the resort
to arrange a stay time that suits you first, then the week long
Intensive Course will be planned to coincide with your holiday.
This is a great way for a group to learn together or for the family
to occupy themselves with the many local attractions while you
are busy up-skilling and making wonderful mosaic art.
 
  
Wildflower chess - 32 indigenous flowers found at the resort in Spring
  
18 hole golf course with indigenous wild life motifs based upon the shape of each tee
Please feel free to enquire with any questions any time.

CORPORATE
Half day team building workshops give employees the opportunity
to experience alternative approaches to decision making in a
collaborative exercise that unlocks their creative potential. 
Group participants produce a 'work of art'; a tangible, useful and 
appealing outcome, ready to adorn their workplace environment.
   
       
Large businesses looking for team strengthening and personal
development activities can develop a mosaic program to be
facilitated 'in house' at their own convenient time and location.
A 'get away' alternative, located at a highly acclaimed conference
facility with dining and accommodation, can be discussed with
Campaspe Country House, situated in glorious Woodend, an
easy hour's drive north of Melbourne along the Calder Highway.
   
       
   
Please feel free to enquire with any questions any time.