Carrie Smith specializes in hand-painting each and every piece in her collages, using vibrant colors, patterns, and floral aspects to create one-of-a-kind statement pieces for any living space. Before diving into collage art, she spent many years traveling the world and then teaching around-the-world art classes to children in her community, a lifelong passion that fuels her artistic journey.

Stephanie Lee creates luminous art that invites others to explore the corners of their own creative impulses and honor their own desire to create. She can show you how to improve your metalsmithing skills in her signature “homesteader” style, how to create original sculpted forms with plaster and found objects, and how to combine plaster, paint, and encaustic medium in two-dimensional work.

Amanda Trought is a London-Born Mixed Media Artist who believes in the positive impact that art and creativity can have on health and well-being. She discovered the restorative and transformational power of art through being a caretaker for her mother with Alzheimer's, and running Art and Creativity workshops at a dementia care center.

Sally Hirst is an artist based in Norwich, UK, who works with printmaking, collage and mixed-media paintings.nformed by the textures, colours, and structures of the urban environment, she is drawn to palettes of grungy browns, concrete greys, rusty reds and oranges, and a smidge of woody ochres. Of the city, she notes: "Shadows provide rich blacks, whites give breathing space. Pops of colour come from graffiti.”

Rebecca Chapman is a mixed media artist and teacher living on the south coast of the UK. Recently, Rebecca has embarked upon a mission to help us all to make more of the photos we have sitting on our phones and get them into our mixed media projects. She enjoys incorporating photos into her collages to explore different ways of working with them, and loves sharing her techniques to help you feel more confident about merging your photography and your art!