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Unleash Your Creativity with us
Based in the heart of Maraetai, Paint Box Studios NZ offers an intimate creative atelier where imagination leads. We nurture authentic self-expression and guide artists to develop work inspired by their own ideas, not imitation or replication. Our focus is on a creative process and growing confidence, over product based teaching.
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MATERIALS
Term fees, include personal drafting journal
and afternoon tea for classes after school.
Fees cover all materials. Dietary requirements catered for.
An exception exists for pottery workshops, where a kiln fee applies according to the project's weight. Clay and glazes provided.
COST
Fees are paid in a lump sum, prior to workshops beginning.
Your place is confirmed once payment has been received.
Fees: $25 per workshop, 1 hour.
High School: $30 for an hour and a half
Calculated as a lump sum for the duration of a school term.
Usually between 8 and 10 weeks.
Fees are non-refundable, so please be sure of this commitment before purchasing. Missed classes are also non-refundable.
Contact Paintbox to enquire about spaces.
As part of our studio philosophy we value the importance of creative friendships and belonging. For that reason existing members have first priority to retain their space. A waitlist operates for classes that are full
About
Paintbox Facilitator
Tarquin Hooker
With a Bachelor of Education (Art History Major), Diploma in Primary Teaching, Postgraduate Certificate in Creative Arts Therapy (Distinction) and a current Masters Student in Creative Arts Therapy, Tarquin lives and breaths art.
As a visual arts educator and emerging creative arts psychotherapist with over 25 years of experience teaching art in schools, special education, and private studio settings; Tarquin works with a creative process and guides artists of all ages to explore authentic self expression.
Inspired by nature, Tarquin works across sculpture, ceramics, painting, ytextiles, printmaking, and poetry. Outside the studio, she is a wife, mother and fur mum of Elvis, the studio dog.
Creative Arts Therapy
Creative Arts Therapy is a form of psychotherapy that combines the creative process with mindfulness and talk-based approaches.
It supports emotional, mental, and physical wellbeing by offering safe pathways to explore feelings, experiences, and build self-awareness through both body and mind.
This approach can be especially helpful for those who find it difficult to express themselves with words alone, including children.
Sessions are client centred and tailored to individual needs.
Creative art therapy supports a strength based approach, making therapy engaging and empowering.
Tarquin completed her Postgraduate Diploma in Creative Arts Therapy in 2024 and the first year of her Clinical Master’s in 2025. She is currently gaining practical experience in primary and secondary schools, as well as at the Mangere Refugee Centre, facilitating 1:1 sessions and small therapeutic groups. Her arts-based research explores sleep dysregulation using poetic inquiry and creative methodology
Tarquin will complete her Clinical Master’s at the end of 2026 and will be available for private clinical bookings once fully registered.
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