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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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A: 5 hours, $295 - $300 per guest ($300 per guest when you book for 1 guest, $295/guest for 2+ guests)
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Introduction to Unorthodox Mixed Media and Mark Making
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5 hours
1 to 10 guests
$295 - $300
($300 per guest when you book for 1 guest, $295/guest for 2+ guests)
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What you'll do
Over five hours, artist Samantha Gardiner will guide you through an exploration of mixed media as a process of layering, disruption, and discovery — allowing the history of the work to remain visible rather than covered up.This is not about perfect finishes or polished outcomes. It’s about trusting intuition, embracing texture, and letting the artwork reveal itself through doing.You’ll be guided through collage, mark-making, paint, and textural techniques that encourage freedom and risk-taking while gently shedding old narratives about how art “should” look. We’ll work from instinct, respond to what emerges, and learn when to add, remove, and most importantly, stop.This workshop is ideal for artists who:
- crave a looser, more authentic approach to making
- love texture, layers, and mixed materials
- feel stuck, overthinking, or overly precious with their work
- want to reconnect with process as much as outcome
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This class is not available for purchase
What you'll get
1 resolved mixed-media artworkConfidence in the messy processA deeper trust in their intuitionLanguage for their own creative journey
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Knowledge required
Suitable for beginners through to experienced artists looking to grow their knowledge or learn a new technique.
What to bring
You don't need to bring anything, you can bring materials you want to experiment with or incorporate into your work.
Location
The Old Auction House - 52-56 Mollison Street, Kyneton VIC
900m from Kyneton Train Station and 60 minutes from Melbourne
Your teacher
Sam Gardiner
5.0 (3)
Samantha Gardiner is a Macedon Ranges mixed media artist whose work celebrates texture, layering and lived history. She embraces the imperfect, revealing process, repair and raw edges. Working with mixed media, Samantha finds beauty in the overlooked, transforming the worn and weathered into poetic works of feeling and form.
Her technique of adding and removing layers of mixed mediums, including; ash, paint, plaster, wax, collage and her homemade charcoal sticks (made from her own orchard prunings!) result in a rich painterly understory that adds depth to her celebration of line, movement and subject matter — be it representational or abstract. Samantha`s art has a distinct energy and style that gives voice to how she interprets and responds to everyday life. She spends her days enjoying nature`s vibe and honing her art practice from her studio in the Macedon Ranges, traditionally known as Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung country, Victoria, Australia.
Your host
The Old Auction House is an independently run multi-use arts precinct located in the regional Victorian town of Kyneton, just an hour north of Melbourne. Housed in a historic weatherboard building, which served as the much loved Ferris auction rooms for over 80 years, the precinct opened in April 2017 and is home to a variety of artistic spaces.The Old Auction House is currently home to a retail shop specialising in quality Australian handmade items, four working artist studios including local glass artists Leadlight By Ettore, a teaching space for visiting artists, and two gallery spaces with rotating exhibitions.The Old Auction House is open 7 days and the entire space has been renovated to be accessible for those with prams, wheelchairs, and mobility issues.The Old Auction House has a focus on community engagement in the arts. Each studio runs a variety of classes with different artists and materials throughout the year. Please have a look through our full list of classes to see the range of crafts and skills you can learn with our tutors or get in touch to book a private group session or party.
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