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OPENING TO RADIANCE
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 Summer Solstice. The theme for this 3-hour Intuitive Mixed Media Art workshop is ‘Opening to Radiance’.
Summer Solstice heralds the start of summer and is the time to celebrate that the sun is at its peak and its height of life giving power. The earth around you is a flowing cascade of abundance and fertility. It is also a threshold point - as from now the suns power will start to wane. In your life it is a time to celebrate all that has been given and gifted to you. To allow yourself to shine. To claim your love, beauty and gifts even if there are places and spaces inside that you feel you should not, could not or can not. It is time to shine.
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 Summer Solstice for enhanced well-being and nourishment.
Exploring the energy of Summer Solstice 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 Summer Solstice theme of ‘Opening to Radiance’.
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. We will be using Gold Leaf on this workshop. 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.
