Visual Arts conference
28 March 2026
CREATE 2026
— Awaken Your God-Given Creativity!
Calling all Christian visual artists — it’s time to step boldly into your creative calling! Join us on 28 March 2026 for CREATE, a new and exciting one-day arts conference designed to inspire, equip, and release you into Spirit-led creativity.
Why come?
Step into your purpose: Discover how your art can glorify God and impact the world and those around you.
Ages 16+ | Limited spaces |
This day is for YOU
- If you attend an art group, OR create at home OR have invested time and/or money into developing your practice, this indicates you are exploring about your creativity and wanting more !
- If you are a creative either working in the visual arts OR who feel the stirrings of passion or calling into the visuals arts.
This is NOT for musicians, writers, dancers, there are other more appropriate conferences for them.
If you are unsure if this conference is for you and want to discuss it, please email me at katrinamossart@gmail.com
Creative Sessions
- There will be 2 x 2 hour creative sessions.
- Attendees can bring an existing piece of creativity to work on, and/or take up challenge offered by each guest artist
- Please bring your own art materials (canvas, paper, paints, brushes etc)
- There is nowhere to store work created, so attendees will need to take their work home with them.
There will be tables available, but if you are able to bring and use your own floor-standing easel, this allows us to offer more spaces to artists. This is not a requirement, but please state on booking form if you will be bringing your own floor standing easel.
Cost
£35 Price
Coffee and tea will be provided.
Please bring your own lunch (there are places nearby where food can be purchased)
Venue
Godfirst, The Runway, 15 Airfield Rd, Christchurch, Dorset. BH23 3TG
For those coming from further afield and looking for a hotel, the Premier Inn Christchurch (East) Hotel is closest; CLICK HERE or Christchurch Travelodge is the next closest; CLICK HERE.
This exciting conference is being organised by Katrina Moss and hosted by Godfirst Church and is open to all (ages 16+) who feel it is for them.
Plan of Day
9.00 Coffee/Tea
9.30 Session 1 – Katrina Moss
9.45 Session 2 – 1st Guest Artist
10.30 Session 3 – Creative session
12.30 – 1.30 lunch (Bring your own)
1.30 Session 4 – Katrina Moss
1.45 Session 5 – 2nd Guest Artist
2.30 Session 6 – Creative session
4.30 Finish
SPEAKERS
Guest speakers are all artists, who engage in different ways in the arts. They will show their artwork and talk honestly about their process, faith, challenges of being a Christian artist in the art world and in church.
KATRINA MOSS – Artist & Innovator
Exploring the spiritual aspects of life and seeking to express them creatively.
Self taught, but having attended many art courses over the decades, I am passionate about encouraging and releasing artists to explore and communicate spirituality, faith and the mysteries of life through their creativity for the benefit of others and themselves,
I had the privilege to be the founder of the CHAIYA ART AWARDS, what was for 7 years, the UK’s largest biennial art awards exploring spirituality through the visual arts, with a top prize of £10,000. This was open to people of all faiths and none and everyone in-between. During those years Chaiya:
- Welcomed nearly 12,000 visitors to our exhibitions. at the OXO & Bargehouse galleries on London’s soutbank.
- Displayed 320 artworks.
- Over 5,000 people participated in our public votes.
- We received over 320,000 hits on our website.
- Networked with nearly 8,000 artists across the UK.
- Awarded £45,000 in prize money to artists
For more details please see website: katrinamoss.co.uk
PAUL HOBBS makes painting and sculpture that deals with social and spiritual issues from a Christian perspective.
Through a mixture of materials, layering, surprise and play, Paul’s work stimulates discussion about human values and dignity, and responsibility and service to others. It seeks to show the relevance of Jesus to contemporary concerns, asking, ‘If we believe this from the Bible, how does it relate to what we read in the newspaper? If we see this in the news, has God’s word got anything to say?’ and to draw the outsider to begin to take Jesus Christ seriously.
Themes include famine, inequality, fatherhood, old age, sexuality, our capacity for violence, suffering, the Beatitudes and the Trinity. There is also a collection of shoes and stories from believers all around the world, and a series on contemporary martyrdom.
Paul exhibits in a wide range of venues—frequently in schools and churches—leading discussions and engaging people with the gospel through his artwork.
The materials include paint, collage, wood, steel, and assembled objects.
For more details please see website: arthobbs.com
