Mastering Mixed Media
Creative Session with Denise Daffara

Sanctuary Play: A Gentle Mixed Media Botanical

Sanctuary Play: A Gentle Mixed Media Botanical is a calm, nourishing mixed media session inviting artists into playful exploration through colour, line, and intuitive botanical forms. In this class, Denise guides participants to slow down, notice, and engage with simple gathered elements as a way of returning to presence and creative ease.

Beginning with a gentle still-life arrangement inspired by natural botanicals, participants are led through a relaxed process of layering colour, mark-making, and loose botanical shapes. The focus is not on perfection or realism, but on play as sanctuary – allowing curiosity, softness, and intuition to guide the creative process.

This session embraces playfulness through experimentation, lightness of touch, and permission to respond emotionally rather than technically. Artists will be supported step by step as they create a finished mixed media botanical artwork that reflects their own pace, sensitivity, and inner landscape.

This class is suitable for beginners and experienced artists alike, and is especially welcoming for those who long for a slower, more meaningful way to play with materials and reconnect with their creative selves.

Creative Session with Denise Daffara

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About Denise Daffara

Denise Daffara is an Australian Artist & Creative Guide whose work centres on connected creativity, intuitive process, and embodied presence. Through layered colour, botanical forms, still life, and mixed media play, she creates art that invites slowing down, noticing, and returning to oneself.

Her approach is deeply informed by nature, ritual, and years of lived creative practice. Rather than focusing on perfection or productivity, Denise guides artists toward a relational way of making – one that attends to colour, form, subject, mood, and the felt experience of being present while creating. Her work often explores still life, botanicals, beloved animals, and symbolic forms as quiet anchors for reflection and creative sanctuary.

Denise teaches internationally through online courses, workshops, and collaborative events, and is known for her calm, grounded presence as a teacher. Through her work, she offers creative experiences that feel nourishing and supportive – especially for sensitive creatives seeking a more connected, meaningful relationship with art.

Find out more about this teacher by visiting their site:
http://www.denisedaffara.com.au/

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