— A Mindful Texture Art Studio in Malaysia & Singapore —
Spend your time, differently
Slow down, explore somatic resonance, and create meaningful
work — alone, or with those you love.
Mindfulness · Texture · Sculpture · Mural
This is not your usual art studio.
Every piece we make begins with purpose. Through guided Somatic Art Coaching, we invite you to inhabit your body's sensations, listen to subtle impulses, and translate those experiences into textured, expressive artworks.
— Sessions & Workshops —
Ways to create with us
Discover texture, sensation, and creative play in Arkateori’s in-person Texture Art Workshop. Guided by a professional art instructor, you will learn tactile art techniques including layering, scraping, impasto, additive methods, and subtractive methods. This hands-on textured art class explores how surface, material, and movement can shape visual expression.
Arkateori’s signature play-centered approach encourages curiosity, loosened control, and unexpected mark-making. Through guided creative exercises, you will experiment with texture as a way to express memory, emotion, and personal meaning.
This intimate workshop also includes Somatic Art coaching, with gentle body-awareness exercises and guided prompts designed to help you reconnect with your inner child and translate felt emotion into textured surfaces. The experience is both a creative art workshop and a personal ritual, allowing you to leave with artwork that carries movement, meaning, and self-expression.
Suitable for beginners and experienced makers, this texture art workshop includes all materials, individual guidance, and a calm studio environment. Leave with a finished textured artwork, sharpened sensory awareness, and renewed confidence in allowing play, feeling, and intuition to guide your art.
This workshop offers couples a transformative experience focused on deepening connection, fostering healing, and achieving reconciliation. Over the session, couples embark on a journey of self-discovery and mutual understanding, guided by the creation of a meaningful texture art.
What You Will Experience:
Rediscover Your Love Language
Learn how you and your partner express and receive love, deepening your understanding of each other.Clarity and Direction
Reflect on your relationship’s current state and future direction, gaining a shared vision.Emotional Healing
Engage in activities designed to address and heal past emotional wounds
Please note that while this workshop offers a deeply enriching experience, we are not therapists or counsellors. Our goal is to provide a safe space for connection and self-discovery, but it is not a substitute for professional therapy.
Reconnect with your body, emotions, and creative intuition through Arkateori’s Somatic Art Coaching Session. This guided texture art experience uses breath, presence, and tactile mark-making to help you slow down, feel into your body, and translate internal experiences into meaningful visual expression.
In this one-on-one somatic art session, texture becomes a language for self-awareness. You will explore mindful art-making through layering, scraping, stamping, and intentional gestures while noticing breath rhythms, body sensations, muscle tension, emotional qualities, and creative impulses. The result is a living canvas that holds feeling, insight, movement, and personal meaning.
During the session, you will be guided through gentle somatic practices to bring attention into the body and away from rumination. Sensory exercises will help you tune into touch, weight, temperature, and pressure, allowing texture to become an expressive material for emotional exploration.
You will also begin with a simple intention-setting ritual to clarify what you want to explore, express, or release through art. As you create, guided pause points will invite you to notice the sensations, emotions, and impulses that arise during the process.
The session ends with a mindful integration conversation, helping you translate your sensory artwork into personal insight and practical next steps for self-care, emotional awareness, or creative practice.
This somatic art coaching session is suitable for anyone who wants to reconnect with their body, process emotions through texture art, or explore a more embodied approach to creativity. No prior art experience is required.
Bring your story, space, or vision to life through a bespoke texture art commission by Arkateori. Known for her signature floral texture art, the artist creates custom textured artworks for clients around the world, across a wide range of subjects, styles, and themes.
From botanical compositions and abstract pieces to meaningful personal concepts, nature-inspired scenes, symbolic artworks, and statement pieces for interiors, each commission is thoughtfully created to reflect your intention. Whether you are looking for a personalised artwork for your home, a unique gift, a commemorative piece, or a custom textured artwork for a commercial or hospitality space, Arkateori works closely with you to bring your vision into tactile form.
While Arkateori specialises in floral texture art, her commission work is not limited to flowers. Clients can explore different subjects, colour palettes, sizes, moods, and themes to create a one-of-a-kind artwork that feels personal and meaningful. Through layered surfaces, sculptural details, colour, movement, and tactile mark-making, every piece is designed to carry emotion, memory, and visual depth.
Available for bespoke art commissions globally, Arkateori creates each custom texture art piece with care, intention, and sensitivity to texture, form, and feeling. Whether you are commissioning an intimate keepsake or a large-scale statement artwork, each piece is crafted to transform your idea into a lasting visual work.
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Commissioned art starts from RM10,000 - price varies on bespoke request.
Please contact us to begin planning and discussing the details of your upcoming event.
Following the viral Hibiscus Wall Mural that reached millions across platforms, Arkateori invites you to join Catherine Ong, co-founder and self-taught 3D artist, for an intimate live floral mural art session, created directly on the wall.
This exclusive Masterclass takes you behind the textures and emotions of Catherine’s signature style. Over two hours, you’ll learn how to bring sculptural depth and organic movement to your own wall, while connecting to the mindful rhythm of creating with your hands.
What You’ll Learn
In this immersive live experience, you will discover how to:
Understand the mediums and tools used in wall texturing
Create the perfect consistency for sculpting 3D floral forms
Control the chaos, finding balance and beauty in the midst of creative messiness
Adjust and recover mistakes, even when the plaster starts to dry
Practise after-dry care for lasting texture and colour integrity
This is not just about technique — it’s about learning to create from a grounded state of presence, where imperfection becomes part of the art.
What You’ll Need to Prepare
For those who wants to try the technique on the spot, you may prepare these items:
Joint compound (please check the checklist below for reference, depending on which country you are from)
Canvas / MDF board (any size can be as long as you can test on the area)
Baking piping bag or ziplock bag
Painting brush
Sharp palette knife
Round palette knife
Before the Session
Once you sign up, you’ll receive a preparation list of tools and materials, in case you wish to practice along in real time.
The session will be primed using easy-clean construction paint, so you can safely work on your own wall or a practice board.
During the Live
2-Hour Guided Demonstration with Catherine
2 Interactive Q&A Segments for live questions and feedback
Global community of artists, designers, and creators joining from all over the world.
— THE SIGNATURE COLLECTION —
The FELT series
Cloth in appearance. Sculpted in three dimensions. Crafted from metal wire and plaster — conceived by Catherine and Sean in memory of their late mother, a lifelong tailor.
Loud, but quietly luxurious.
Hello, I’m Catherine.
— Meet the Artist —
Self-taught 3D artist, co-founder of Arkateori, and creator of the viral Hibiscus Wall Mural. My practice is rooted in somatic awareness — the belief that our hands know what our minds haven't yet found words for.
I'd love to create something with you.