A creative workshop where earth becomes your canvas. In this immersive session, you’ll discover how raw materials — clay, sand, straw, and fibres — can be shaped into expressive surfaces that merge art, architecture, and wellbeing.

You’ll be guided through techniques used in traditional and contemporary natural building, from sculpting relief patterns to pressing found objects, plants, and tools into wet earth to leave beautiful, lasting impressions. Together, the group will create a large-scale collaborative artwork on a live building site — a rare chance to make something both ephemeral and enduring, as part of a real structure.

What makes this workshop special:

• Hands-on techniques — learn how to prepare earth for sculpting, create depth with layering, and use natural tools and fibres to form texture and pattern

• Collaborative process — work as part of a creative team to design and build a shared wall artwork, leaving your mark on a real project

• Art + architecture crossover — gain insight into how decorative reliefs and surface treatments are integrated into natural buildings around the world

• Wellness through making — experience the grounding, meditative qualities of working with earth — the cool, pliable textures and slow rhythm of hand-shaping are known to reduce stress and foster mindfulness

• Sustainability in practice — explore how earth art isn’t just creative, but also climate-friendly: using local, low-impact, regenerative materials that connect us to place
   

By the end of the session, you’ll leave with a new set of artistic techniques, a richer understanding of natural materials, and the joy of having co-created something bigger than yourself. This is as much about the experience and connection as it is about the final result.

This workshop series is in collaboration with Bisque-Kit and Ark Eden in Lantau, Hong Kong.