Create stunning, original fibre art… from repurposed anything!

Your adventure begins by learning the rules, and then quickly and respectfully leaving them behind. You’ll be invited to make bold moves. To make mistakes in the name of learning. And to stretch yourself far outside the confinement of 'fitting' into a box.

You'll join Clarissa in wandering through forests, exploring textile stores, and strolling along railway tracks. You'll rethink the value of what’s been overlooked, engage in a uniquely creative process of hunting and gathering your materials, and find items that you may once have been told were worthless or 'junk'. The places you go and the things you see will enhance your learnings, and you’ll take these deep-seated realisations with you on your future walks.

What will you challenge yourself to find?

You'll explore: Bringing value to 'ugly' things, the skill of seeing like an artist, hunting and gathering creativity, releasing judgement and finding inspiration, unconventional ways of approaching creativity, and setting up your own artist workspace.

Now that you’ve shifted how you see, it’s time to shift how you make. In this second stage, you’ll gain practical skills while learning how to tune into your own creative choices, choosing what to try, what to skip, and what feels most aligned with your voice.

You’ll get the chance to work with fabric in unexpected ways, learning how to eco-dye with leaves and flowers, rust-dye with found metals, create rich texture with household products, and distress fabric using burning, binding, and melting. You’ll also be able to explore stitching with wire, experimenting with couching, and creating sculptural forms using wrapping and layering techniques.

With every technique grounded in accessibility, you won't need fancy supplies or a perfect setup. Just a willingness to play, experiment, and use what’s around you. By the end of this section, you’ll have a toolkit of new techniques you can return to again and again.

You'll explore: Altering and alchemy as a textile artist, understanding composition, setting up your equipment and processes, creating texture with household products, Building your palette.

All while being given the chance to try: Mordants, eco-dying, rust-dying, overdying, shapes, sculpting, and stitching, embellishment, couching techniques, stitching with wire, burning and melting, binding and wrapping, distressing, fabric paints and pens.

This stage is where your ideas start to shift, and what you make begins to feel like you. The new techniques you’re adding to your talents will guide your progress into a new phase of exploration. It will allow you to think bigger about what’s possible, and find your voice, originality, and joy.

This stage isn’t just about producing finished work - it’s about building trust in your process and seeing your practice as something that grows with you. The processes learned here – the seeing, the doing, the experimenting – become part of a bigger conversation that you’ll take with you in other areas of life. Because what happens in this phase is not just about what you’re making, but about who you’re becoming.

You'll explore: How to apply your techniques, feeling confident as an artist, putting your creations in place, moving forward (even when you're not thrilled with your work), discovering something new in every technique, and bringing your work to life.

Part four: The transformation

This is where things come full circle. You’ll see how far you’ve come, not just in what you’ve made, but in how you think, feel, and move through your creative practice. The fear, doubt, and perfectionism that once held you back should feel quieter now - replaced by momentum, trust, and pride in your process.

Your final transformation happens in both the physical completion of assembling your small and larger artwork, and in the mindset transformation of stepping into a new artistic identity. As you step into a new confidence simply by doing, you’ll enjoy every feeling that comes alongside the completion of a project, with the added satisfaction of doing it your way, and in your voice.

u’ll round out this course by having an up-levelled skillset, a new direction on how to carry your creativity, and a clean slate allowing yourself to be you.

You'll explore: Confidently assembling your final artwork, choosing substrates, bases, and backgrounds that support your vision, adding, layering, and connecting pieces to create a cohesive whole, releasing perfectionism and finishing your project your way, exploring hanging options and final presentation details.