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Live Panel: 2026: New Year, New Goals!
Thursday, January 15th
5–6pm MST
7–8pm EST
12am–1am GMT (Friday)
11am–12pm AEDT (Friday)
Mentors: Beth Kennedy and Kim Richards
$19.00
Free For Mastrius Members.
2026 Goal-Setting for a Focused Creative Year
A thoughtful, realistic approach to planning your best year yet!
Start the year strong and learn how to effectively plan, organize, and streamline your creative process so you feel more focused and genuinely excited about the year ahead.
Join mentors Beth Kennedy and Kim Richards for an energizing and practical discussion about setting meaningful goals, organizing your creative life, and creating systems that support your art and keep you inspired, not overwhelmed.
Whether you’re looking to carve out more time for your work or finally follow through on big ideas, this panel will offer a thoughtful approach to turning intentions into consistent creative action.
In this session, you’ll learn how to:
- Develop clear, achievable goals rooted in your own creative priorities
- Organize your studio in ways that boost focus and creativity
- Create a flexible schedule that balances creative flow with real life
- Track your progress to stay on course and energized throughout the year
Bring your questions and join us for a thoughtful, encouraging discussion designed to help you start the year feeling grounded, confident, and ready to move forward.
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Meet Beth Kennedy
Acrylic | Assemblage | Charcoal | Drawing | Gouache | Ink | Mixed Media | Spray Paint | Watercolour
Beth has a playful approach to painting, enjoying the “happy accidents” that occur when experimenting with spray paint, oil stick, gouache, ink and watercolour.
She works intuitively with colour – at times allowing it to flow across the canvas in washes, and at others using it in bold opaque areas. Amongst this, wavering patterns move in and out of focus, eventually finding their place and adding depth and beauty to the paintings.
Beth lives in a leafy green suburb of Brisbane with her husband, two daughters and two rascally cats. Beth is represented by Anthea Polson Art (Gold Coast), Artist Lane (Melbourne), The Artling (Singapore) & Circle Contemporary Gallery (Cornwall, UK).
Beth has a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the Australian National University. She has held solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions. Her work has appeared in Art Edit magazine, Australian House & Garden, Belle magazine and The Age’s Melbourne Magazine.
Meet Kim T. Richards
Acrylic
My current body of work reimagines landscapes and still life subjects observed from life to depict the landscape of my own imagination through texture, distortions and color enhancement.
I begin by creating a gouache sketch from my photographs, or gouache sketches made on location. I move things around, enhance colors, distort perspective, and even “re-landscape” by taking plants from another part of the garden and inserting them into my scene.
Working from my sketches instead of photographs allows me to move further away from rendering what I saw and allows me to manipulate the landscape and color to evoke a feeling in the viewer, akin to the feelings I experienced in those locations.
Growing up in Brooklyn NY, Kim had access to wonderful museums and an early exposure to the world’s great art. After earning a BFA in illustration from Parsons School of Design in NY, Kim pursued a career as a textile designer. Many of Kim’s prints featured floral motifs, and that interest in flowers is still evident in her work.
Kim is currently filling her own garden with all the plants she loves to paint. In good weather you can often find her outside painting the flowers there, or painting outdoors all over northern Virginia.
When the weather is not conducive to spending time outdoors, Kim enjoys working in the studio painting bouquets of flowers, or reimagining some of the locations she painted on location in the past.