ABOUT THE TEACHERS
Beatriz Helton is a mixed media, fiber, and textile bookmaking artist who creates unique books from vintage pages, music sheets, old photographs, fabrics, and found materials. She thrives in the creative process of stitching, drawing, and painting, letting intuition guide her work. No two books are alike, with each page reflecting shapes, colors, textures, and personal impressions from her life. Beatriz loves when viewers connect personally with her art, believing each person’s view of art is as unique as a fingerprint.
Lisa Goddard is a UK-based mixed media artist, art journaler, and journal maker living near the Peak District. Creating art for over 20 years, she uses journals and mixed media assemblages as a space for self-expression, emotional processing, and storytelling. She loves the freedom of combining collage, texture, fabric, and paper with splashes of color, often incorporating vintage images and found text.
Kelly Boler is an artist specializing in book and paper arts, including journal arts, altered books, and illustrated journal keeping with vintage materials. She sources original ephemera, old books, maps, postcards, letters, photographs, and other relics, to create works that evoke mystery, curiosity, and imagination. Surrounded by these touchstones of the past, she transforms them into new stories through her creative alchemy.
Francisca Nunes is a mixed media artist from Portugal and the creator of the Flowers Magic Art Fest, the most popular mixed media summer event. Inspired by the colors and textures of nature, she has guided over 8,000 students through her courses and festivals. Her mission is to help artists of all levels unlock their creativity and create meaningful, nature-inspired art through online workshops and live events.
Christine Karpiak is a mixed media artist and teacher who fosters exploration and authentic creative expression. She works across painting, photography, stitching, dyeing, and assemblage, blending art and life into a shared journey. Christine has taught thousands of students worldwide, guiding them to discover their own voice. She was an Artist in Residence in Orquevaux, France (October 2023), has work in the Denis Diderot Gallery, has been featured in the 2024 and 2025 Artist Almanac, and is a regular contributor to Somerset Studio.
Michelle Cox is an artist whose love for flower gardening shapes her creative journey. Her most vibrant gardens—and artworks—have often grown from life’s hardest seasons, turning pain into beauty. Through creating with flowers year-round, she has found healing, resilience, and authenticity, transforming past challenges into meaningful art.
Shelly Sazama is an everyday maker and encourager whose passions are slow stitching and creating artist books with vintage fabrics and papers, often dyed with indigo. Inspired by the imperfect beauty of worn fabric and the sea, she approaches art as a way to process life and enrich it. Based in West Seattle, WA, she believes everyone is an artist and surrounds her life with art, family, nature, and joy.
Sue Bulmer is a seasonally aligned artist, art therapist, educator, and inspiration facilitator who believes everyone is creative and values the wellbeing benefits of making art. Based in rural Nottinghamshire, she creates art and courses from her studio at the top of her cottage garden, drawing inspiration from countryside walks with her dog.
Vanna Tursini is a professional mixed media artist with over 25 years of experience, exhibiting internationally in cities including Caracas, New York, Miami, Florence, London, and soon Madrid, where she now resides. She studied Fine Arts in Caracas and Florence, and Art Therapy in Genoa. Her achievements include a published catalog for her 2004 A.I.R. Gallery exhibition in New York, participation in the 2012 Venice Biennale, and being named one of “Where Women Create” magazine’s 10 outstanding artists in 2022. A founding member of the Integrarte Group, she runs her own Madrid studio, teaches, and explores integrating diverse artistic languages.
Erin Faith Allen is a multidisciplinary artist whose work transforms stories of memory, legacy, and human resilience into multilayered visual narratives. Her practice spans mixed media art, documentary filmmaking, historical research, and transformative teaching, each enriching the other.
Debasree is an artist, educator, and creative explorer from India. After a decade in the IT corporate world, she rediscovered her love for art while in London, using painting to embrace freedom and imperfection. In 2016, she left her job to pursue art full-time, a decision that transformed her life. Since then, she has taught nearly 20,000 students worldwide and led over 700 in-person workshops, sharing art as a path to self-expression, healing, and self-discovery.
Julie Hamilton is a mixed media artist who embraces play, possibility, and the “what if?” of creative exploration. Her overactive imagination fuels a love for endless artistic possibilities and self-expression without rules. Julie’s career has taken her from painting to surface pattern design, children’s book illustration, and now teaching, connecting her with a wide community of like-minded creatives.
Drawing has been part of Joy Ting Charde’s life since childhood, from making art for classmates to teaching elementary art for nine years. Now a professional artist and instructor for all ages, she balances her daily practice with being a mom to two teen boys, often creating in the quiet hours. She especially loves painting flowers, using mixed media to capture their vibrant beauty and inspire others to explore their creativity.
Camila Garcia is a self-taught mixed-media artist and art journaler passionate about all things botanical. In her art practice, she mainly explores floral motifs using different media in her journals and sketchbooks. In her journal pages, you will mostly find abstract backgrounds combined with expressive botanical drawings, collages, and loose paintings.