With Christmas just around the corner, create a collection of beautifully decorated gifts using elegant French-inspired surface design. Learn to embellish soaps, ceramics, candles, glass and other keepsakes with paper, fabric and decorative finishes. Perfect for beginners, you'll create stylish, handcrafted pieces to gift (or keep for yourself!). Materials cost approx $80 (full list of what to bring on receipt)

Your Tutor is Victoria Lowery

Victoria Lowery MA VisArt, GradDipEdSec has been teaching at WEA since April 2011.

Victoria is passionate about the creative process, and has been drawing, painting, working with textiles and designing from an early age, influenced by her father who was an artist and graphic designer. 

Victoria emigrated from Ukraine as an established artist and graduate of L’viv National Academy of Arts, and came to South Australia in 2011 after living and exhibiting her artwork in Austin, Texas in the United States for two years. 

While teaching at the WEA, Victoria completed a Master’s Degree in Visual Art and Design and Illustration and later, a Diploma in Secondary Education at UniSA. 

Victoria teaches a range of WEA art and craft courses including acrylic and watercolour painting, drawing, textiles and fibre design.