‍8 July: All of Us - Art Class with Natalie Newlands

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Join renowned fashion designer and artist Natalie Newlands to explore:

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- Ways to quiet external noise and reconnect with your own creative rhythm and inner voice

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- How releasing the need for a specific outcome can open space for deeper expression and creative flow

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- How personal reflections on individuality often resonate collectively and why trusting your own timing matters

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- Simple techniques to create artwork that feels honest, intuitive, and uniquely yours

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- Natalie’s evolving journey with community-based artwork and the creative and social impact it continues to spark.

Natalie will share the story behind All of Us - a creative movement rooted in individuality, connection and allowing your unique creativity to flow. Through storytelling, Natalie will guide participants to reconnect with their own creative rhythm, inviting them to step away from comparison and step into presence. You’ll explore the process behind the large-scale wall artwork in the Music Room - a conversation piece that invites reflection and sparks social impact. It is All of Us. This session is about using creativity as a tool for self-discovery, expression, and joy - without the pressure of a polished outcome. Just space to play, explore, and have some fun.

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About Natalie Newlands:

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Natalie Newlands is a fashion designer, artist and mother of three lively boys. She’s the founder and creative director of New Lands Studio - a design house known for its refined yet playful approach to clothing and uniforms. While much of her fashion work explores form, function, and visual impact, Natalie is always curious to the beautiful imperfections that make people unique.

Through All of Us, she turned this fascination into a movement - sketching off beat faces that celebrated individuality and community. These artworks evolved into large-scale murals and later, organic cotton T-shirts worn as statements of self-expression.

Natalie’s creative practice is deeply intuitive and emotionally grounded — blending storytelling, art and a sense of therapeutic release. She believes that creativity is a way to come home to yourself. Her work invites people to drop the pressure to perform or perfect, and instead honour what feels true.

For Natalie, art isn’t about outcomes — it’s about connection, presence, and allowing your unique blueprint to come alive.

‍Details:

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Please bring a sketchbook, pencil and any other materials you'd like to use. We will have a limited array of supplies.

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About Community Draw at Te Atamira:
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Join us with sketchbook and pencil in hand for Community Draw. This free event is held every second Tuesday of the month. No experience necessary - come along and embrace the joy of different approaches to drawing.

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Thank you to Central Lakes Trust for bringing creativity to our community.

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‍Upcoming Programmes:

12 August: Introduction to NeuroArt by Jenny Geelan

9 September

14 October

11 November

9 December