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LIFES PLEASURES
Tap into your creative power and create meaningful art in alignment with the natural rhythms of the seasons and the Wheel of the Year.
In this mixed media art class, you will create a piece of art exploring a theme that embraces the energies of Beltane. The theme for this 3-hour Intuitive Mixed Media Art workshop is ‘Life’s Pleasures’.
At Beltane the spring season is at its peak and in our ancient May Day customs it is a celebration of the ripeness and fertility of life. In nature it is a sensual time of year, and we too are aroused to look at what we enjoy, what we are attracted too and what brings us pleasure and fulfilment in life. It is a time to get in tune with the direction of what truly lights your heart and brings you joy as you move forward towards summer.
Working with the seasons and the Wheel of the Year underpins my own creative and spiritual practice and during this workshop I will share with you about creatively connecting to the energies of the Beltane for enhanced well-being and nourishment.
Exploring the energy of Beltane you will be engaging the creative process as a meditative reflection process. Laying down paint and mixed media intuitively and rest into enjoying, moving, and playing with your paint. The session starts with a small-guided meditation practice – so you can approach the creative process from a place of stillness and rest. You then move into working on building layers of flow and curiosity with images, quotes, textures, and acrylic paint as you connect to the Beltane theme of ‘Life’s Pleasures’.
Using your fingers, brushes, colour, creating and dissolving form you will learn how to express creatively without using the mind to judge what the outcome will be or what to do next. There is guidance, technique and prompts throughout the session to keep the thread of the theme evolving as you create. This approach allows a dialogue with your intuitive nature to open as you relax into the creative process. A communication opens that informs and inspires the piece being created and enables you to bring forward in your art piece a message calling you forward. Making each participant’s piece unique and full of meaning and reflection.
Not only will you leave the session with a beautiful piece of artwork that is meaningful to you but also a depth of creative nourishment and enhanced well-being.
NO PRIOR ART EXPERIENCE NECESSARY.
ALL CREATIVE ABILITIES WELCOME.
Materials Being Used on the Workshop:
All materials are provided. However, if you want to bring images, text or poems that mean something to you, you are more than welcome. You will be working with acrylic paints on 15” x 22” size Fabriano Artistico 300gsm watercolour paper with one deckled edge. You will also learn how to prepare the paper to take multiple layers of paint, flow and water.
You are more than welcome to bring any bits and pieces that speak to you that you might incorporate into your artwork. It could be a poem that moves you, images, text, whatever it is bring it along.
SESSION COST - £40
Includes all materials plus tea or coffee & delicious cake.
