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ClassBento money-back guarantee
Our mission is to improve mental wellbeing through our workshops and experiences. We curate our teachers and hosts carefully to ensure that they are of high quality.
That's why we provide a money-back guarantee*: If you're unsatisfied with this experience, just leave it at least 20 minutes before it ends, and tell us (the ClassBento team) the reason for your dissatisfaction within 4 hours of that time, and we'll provide you with a refund.
* We may choose to limit our refund per customer at $1000. In some rare cases, we may also require you to show us your photo ID before we process the refund.
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arrow_right_alt arrow_downwardDiscover the simple, expressive language of folk art and create your own small painted story.
Folk art has a wonderfully distinctive visual language: bold shapes, simplified imagery, decorative patterns, limited colour palettes and, often, a story hiding beneath the surface.
In this relaxed, beginner-friendly painting workshop, we’ll explore what makes folk art folk art before putting those ideas into practice on your own A4 canvas.
We’ll look at examples of folk art from different traditions and break down some of its key characteristics: from reducing complex subjects into simple shapes and symbols, to using repetition, pattern and colour to create a strong decorative style.
You’ll then develop your own folk-art visual vocabulary, experimenting with simple motifs such as flowers, animals, plants, people, houses and symbolic objects.
From there, you’ll choose a simple story, memory, place, creature or idea to inspire your painting. You’ll create a quick composition before translating your story into a finished acrylic painting using a deliberately limited colour palette.
You’ll finish the session with your own A4 folk-art painting, created entirely from your own story and visual ideas.
No previous painting experience is required; this workshop is about discovering your own visual language, not painting perfectly.
All materials are provided, including acrylic paints and an A4 canvas.
Come with an open mind, a willingness to experiment, and perhaps a little story you’d like to tell.
Please note: This class requires at least 5 students to run. In the unlikely event that we don't get this number of students, we'll cancel the class, fully refund you, and inform you via email, so please watch your email a few days prior to the class.
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What you'll get
A4 canvas
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guided instruction to build your own folk-art visual vocabulary
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What to bring
just yourself!
Your teacher
Liana Kappelle
Liana Kappelle is a multidisciplinary artist, maker and workshop facilitator whose practice is driven by curiosity, storytelling and a healthy dose of the weird and wonderful. Working across painting, illustration, textiles, sculpture, paper arts and mixed media, Liana loves exploring the space between art, craft and ritual.
A lifelong lover of folklore, esoteric traditions and tarot, Liana often brings these threads into her creative practice, exploring tarot as both a tool for storytelling and a rich visual language of archetypes, symbols and human experience.
As a facilitator, Liana is passionate about making creativity feel accessible, playful and genuinely enjoyable. Her workshops are less about getting things “right” and more about experimenting, getting your hands dirty and discovering what happens when you give yourself permission to make something imperfect.
With a background in psychology and classical studies alongside years of teaching and facilitating creative workshops, Liana brings a thoughtful, encouraging approach to the studio. Whether you’re a complete beginner or a lifelong maker, she believes everyone has a creative practice waiting to be poked, prodded and let loose.
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Work-Shop is a creative concept that will broaden your horizons and help you unleash your inner awesome. We provide affordable short courses in life skills and alternative art. We’ve teamed up with Australia’s brightest creative minds to share their knowledge and help teach you a new skill. From 3D printing and stencil art through to music and gardening – life skills and personal development through to cooking doughnuts and mushroom foraging, we offer a broad range of fun and creative short courses to suit our time poor lives. We will inspire you to pick up that pen, paintbrush, hammer or sewing machine and flick the switch that will kickstart a whole new way of life.Community values lie at the heart of our project. We collaborate with local artists and industry experts to teach classes and utilise local suppliers for any materials needed. We also provide a creative environment for emerging artists to produce and sell work, and meet like minded individuals. Work-Shop will be a space for everyone, with a rotating schedule of art shows, information nights on local issues and a whole range of events and community initiatives.
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