Meet Our Tutors - Youth and Children A-Z

We are always looking for new and exciting classes and workshops to offer our community. If you are interested in running a workshop or course please email us at [email protected]

​Mindy Catt: Making Space & The Art Garden Art Tutor

Mindy Catt: 
My name is Mindy Catt, an artist/teacher working and living in West Auckland. I have qualifications in fine art and education, a background in photography.
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I have worked in the arts community for about 15 years. teaching process-based art-making and visual language to preschoolers, school kids, teenagers, adults and the elderly.

I love working side-by-side with people to support them in learning techniques to share their ideas, and to connect with art and each other.

I believe that when learners are in an environment where mistakes are encouraged, experiments are celebrated and ideas given time to develop, they are able to have a rich and transformative relationship with art.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mindy.catt
Website: koninicreatives.org

Holly Manning: Kumeu Children's Art Club Tutor

Holly Manning: 
​Holly Manning is the Kumeu Children's Art Club Tutor and is also one of our Member artists. Her personal outlook on life and attitude towards art is reflected well in her students who produce fun, colourful and energetic creations. 

As a multidisciplinary artist Manning draws, paints using a variety of media particularly watercolour, gouache, coloured pencils, and POSCA pens. She creates zines and also does embroidery. 

Working from people she sees, and places she’s been Holly classifies herself as a ‘storyteller.’ She translates life events or just the ‘everyday’ subject matter into a world of her own. 

Manning’s purpose behind her creativity is very simplistic;
“Everything I make is about having fun and bringing joy – what else would be the point?” And she brings this vibrancy to our Art Club children. ​

Kathryn Tourell - Child and Adult ceramic workshop Tutor

Kathryn Tourell:
Kathryn, a local potter, intertwines her love for crafting functional, beautiful objects with a passion for nurturing young creativity. Sharing the magic of pottery and encouraging young minds to bring their imaginations to life through clay.

Instagram: @foxandfantail.ceramics

Louise Wild: Teen Ceramics Tutor

Louise Wild:

Louise Wild is interested in creating textures and patterns on the clay surfaces. She makes hand built pottery tableware and decorative pieces using stoneware clay.
​Louise spends a lot of time at the beach and in rural New Zealand and loves the simplicity of mother nature; texture, pattern, colour, shade, earth, sea, sky.
She has been a member of Kumeu Arts for over 8 years and tutors the Friday morning Ceramics course as well as the Friday afternoon Teen Pottery 4-week course.