The Winter Table is back. And the entire extraordinary world of Oak Lane & Co is yours.
There is something that happens in a Central Highlands winter that doesn't happen in any other season. The garden strips back. The fog cloaks the landscape in a milky veil. And just when you think there is nothing out there — nothing to bring in, nothing to work with — you find a lichen-crusted branch, a fall of moss, a seedhead still clinging to its stem. You find that winter, more than any other season, is the one that asks you to really look — and in doing so, you are rewarded by its magic.
The Dutch Masters knew it. Those still-life painters who built whole worlds on a tabletop — bare branch and old silver and fruit laid against the dark — weren't really working in abundance. They were working in the joy I find coveted in winter. And what they made was extraordinary.
The Winter Table has always come from that instinct. From the belief that a cold morning and a table and a handful of foraged things can become something genuinely beautiful, transportative — if you know how to look, how to truly see, and how to compose.
The last time I offered this masterclass, I promised to myself that there would be more. Too good. Too inspiring. Too immersive not to. That was three years ago, right here at Oak Lane & Co in Kyneton. People still talk about it. People still ask if there will be another. Every time I say ‘yes, of course’. And on Monday 3 August, I'm bringing it back.
Why Oak Lane & Co is like nowhere else
I want to tell you about Carla and Simon's shop, because it matters to understanding why this day is what it is. And I’ve popped shop that in italics because shop is too neatly and too restrictively and reductively capable of actually holding the essence of their world.
Oak Lane & Co is not a boutique in the conventional sense. It is two heritage buildings on Piper Street, Kyneton, filled with objects that have lived — antique furniture, French and English and Australian pieces, vintage linen, silver, ceramics, glass, things that carry the marks of time in every surface. Crafted objects painstakingly sourced from across the globe. The remote village in Japan that makes just one extraordinary thing. Carla and Simon source with the kind of discernment that comes from a genuine, lifelong love of architecture and interiors and travel. Every object in their rooms has been considered. Every piece holds a story. A provenance.
I became a friend before I became a collaborator, because I kept visiting. Over and over and over again. Not a shop to visit, but an experience to inhabit. I’m pretty sure that tells you something.
For this masterclass, Carla and Simon are opening up their world and inviting us to step inside: they are giving us the entire shop as our styling library, creative resource collection, cabinet of curiosities, and wonder room. Every room. Every object. Every length of old linen and every antique vessel and every piece of silver and every artisan object and ware on those shelves. You will handle and hold them, gather and arrange them, and alongside a collection of seasonal botanicals foraged from my most coveted haunts, you will build your winter table as though the shop and the season were your own home.
There is no styling workshop in Victoria that offers this. I have run many workshops over the last decade, and I can tell you without hesitation: this is the rare one.
Come in from the cold
I know what a Victorian winter morning asks of you. I know the pull of the fire and the warm bench and the cup of tea that doesn't need to go anywhere. Oak Lane & Co in winter is exactly what a beautiful old Kyneton building should feel like in July — the kind of warmth that comes from good objects and good company and a morning that has been thought about.
Piper Street Food Co will be there with morning tea. There'll be tea and coffee, and my own seasonal signature syrups from Preserve by Natasha Morgan.
Come in from the cold. Spend three hours doing something beautiful, visceral and transporatative.
A note on what's changing
With The Productive Garden Companion arriving on 15 September, my teaching is taking a different shape. There will be fewer workshops at Little Cottage on a Hill, and more days held inside the worlds of the collaborators I most admire — people like Carla and Simon. What that means in practice is that days like this one will become rarer, and more particular, from here.
If you've been meaning to come to one of my workshops — this is the one.
The details
Date: Monday 3 August 2026
Time: 10.00am – 1.00pm
Location: Oak Lane & Co, 66 Piper Street, Kyneton, Macedon Ranges
Includes: morning tea by Piper Street Food Co with tea, coffee and Natasha's seasonal signature syrups; full access to the Oak Lane & Co collection as your styling library; foraged winter botanicals; printed take-home resource guide
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