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Finding the Flower

with Gabriella Voogt

Trusting the process

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Collage of four images: an abstract painting with blue, brown, and white shapes; a woman with hair tied back wearing a dark checkered shirt and wide pants standing in a room observing art on the wall; a person holding a rectangular painting with red flowers and brown stems, sitting in an art studio; and a close-up of an abstract floral painting with blue, red, and green colors.

Paint without a plan. Finish in an afternoon.

Gabriella Voogt has spent years developing a process that removes the two things that stop most painters: the blank surface that demands an idea first, and the fear of ruining work you've already made. She begins every painting with no composition in mind, builds a history into the surface, takes most of it away again — and finds the flower in what's left.

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What You'll Experience

Sit at Gabriella's desk and follow her complete process on a single painting — from a board covered fast with colour she hasn't thought about, to a resolved petite floral with fine line work connecting it corner to corner.

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What You’ll Learn

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Why beginning without a plan produces work that looks more considered, not less




How to build layers that stay partly visible, so a thirty-centimetre piece carries real depth




Gabriella's mark-making in full — the brush, the pressure, the direction, the consistency of the paint




How to wash an area back, and when to block one out entirely with opaque colour




How to find a flower inside an abstract surface instead of drawing one onto it




How to finish a piece with fine line work — stems, connection, and the dark edge that ends it

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What's Inside

Carefully crafted modules that take you inside Gabriella's complete process — from the first unplanned mark to a finished petite floral on a thirty-centimetre board.

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Introduction

Gabriella introduces herself and what a petite floral actually is.

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Gabriella's Creative Approach

Why florals, why small, and the loop of adding, removing and finding that sits under every decision she makes.

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Tools & Materials

A straightforward walkthrough of the whole kit.

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Brushwork & Mark-Making

Every mark named and demonstrated, and how to develop your own.

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Layer One: Permission to Make a Mess

The mindset that makes it possible.

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Building the History

Thinning with water, dragging a dry brush over dry paint, where depth actually comes from.

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 Peeling It Back

Washing areas back so they stay half-visible and blocking others out entirely. The most distinctive part of the process, and the hardest.

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Finding the Image

Looking into the layers to find flowers rather than drawing them, and refining until a composition exists that was never planned.

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Line Work & Connection

The fine brush. Stems that join a flower in one corner to one in the other, and the dark edge that separates a study from a finished piece.

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Summary & Closing

Gabriella's closing thoughts on practice, and what to carry back to your own desk this week.

Meet The Artist

Gabriella Voogt

Gabriella Voogt is a Christchurch-based painter whose petite florals. She came to painting from graphic design, and that training is still visible in how a piece gets resolved: composition, contrast and scale are deliberate decisions, even though the painting itself begins with none of them in mind. She sells her work directly, by auction, to the people who want to live with it.

“My drive is accessible art.”

Finding the Flower is the first time Gabriella's complete process has been filmed start to finish on a single painting. It covers everything from the first unplanned layer to the last line, and it's built on the conviction that you do not need to know what you are making in order to make something good.

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Who This Is For




Painters who want to paint more but have no studio, no space, and no appetite for setting up and packing down




Anyone who freezes at a blank surface because they feel they should know what they're making first




Artists with half-finished canvases they stopped touching weeks ago




Experienced painters whose work has become tight and careful, looking for a way back to instinct




Anyone who loves colour and texture more than realism, and wants a flower that doesn't have to look like one

Whatever your starting point, this course will give you a way to finish something this week — and the week after that.

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What’s Included

Instant & Unlimited Lifetime Access

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Lifetime access to all 10 modules and 2 bonus modules
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Ask Gabriella questions directly in the comments
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Access to Arteway's private student community
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Downloadable materials list so you can gather everything before you begin

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The Desk Tour

$35 value / FREE!

A walkthrough of the real working footprint

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Embracing Play and Experimentation, with Louise Knowles

$35 value / FREE!

A guest module from Louise Knowles, included free. Louise makes the case that play and experimentation aren’t optional extras but the entire point, and shows you what that looks like in practice.

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FAQ

A gessoed board or canvas around 30 × 30cm, three brushes — one large for laying colour down, one fine for line work, and one old scratchy one for texture — and five colours at most

No. The process starts by covering a surface quickly with no plan, which is as accessible a starting point as painting has. If you're already experienced, the value sits in the middle of the course — the layering and the editing — rather than the first module.

Pre-recorded, so you can work through it at your own pace and return to any module whenever you need it. You can ask Gabriella questions in the comments at any time.

Lifetime access. Once enrolled, the course is yours to return to whenever you want — whether that's next week or in two years.

We offer a 14-day satisfaction guarantee. If you're not happy with the course for any reason within the first 14 days, contact us and we'll refund you in full — no questions asked.

Yes. Finding the Flower is built entirely around small-scale work made in a single sitting with simple materials. Gabriella teaches her signature looping process to develop refined work in an afternoon and shows students how to get into the flow.