3 HOUR ONLINE WORKSHOP
An introduction to drawing and mindfulness and how mindfulness can support greater confidence, creativity, and a sense of freedom when drawing. The workshop is suitable for beginners to mindful drawing including those with experience in one or other discipline.
5 WEEK ONLINE COURSE
Explore how mindfulness can enrich drawing and give you more creative freedom. This course offers a great introduction to mindful drawing or ways to explore it more deeply. A practical drawing course from observation, and the imagination.
1 DAY IN-PERSON WORKSHOP
An exploration of drawing and mindfulness and how more ‘being’ as distinct from ‘doing’ in the drawing process can lead to many benefits including a greater feeling for your materials, connection to your subject matter and a sense of creative freedom.
4 SESSION ONLINE COURSE
An exploration of contemporary and modern artists relationship to the theme of ‘abstraction’. During the course we will explore a range of diverse practices and approaches to abstract drawing, to inspire our own works. Our mindfulness practices and teachings will focus on the theme of ‘connection, and solidarity with life’, as a way to support a more enriched sense of connection to and relationship with ourself, materials and emergent processes/themes
Note: The course is also available via recordings if you are not able to attend the LIVE sessions
5 WEEK IN-PERSON COURSE
Explore the richness of the imagination in drawing and painting. Cultivate a range of methods for stimulating and connecting to what inspires you, and ways to express your imagination freely through the medium of painting and drawing.
3 WEEK IN-PERSON COURSE
Explore a range of experimental and traditional approaches to drawing the human figure and how mindfulness in the context of drawing can inspire confidence, increased awareness and connection to your materials and subject matter, and a sense of freedom.
5 WEEK IN-PERSON COURSE
Encounter different approaches to making abstract paintings while developing your skills in using a range of painting materials. With reference to the work of a variety of abstract artists explore the visual language common to both representation and abstraction, eg. colour, composition, tone and paint application.
5-DAY RESIDENTIAL RETREAT
How can we live more open, loving, creative and engaged lives? What supports and inspires us to do this? How might meditation with an ancient oak and making contact by means of beauty, love and gratitude lead us towards a deeper understanding of the nature of creativity? These are some of the questions we will be asking during our time together on this retreat as we mark the season at Alfoxton and journey further into summertime.
ONLINE AUTOMATIC DRAWING
Identify and explore how automatic drawing can support you to access creativity and the imagination, with inspiration from a variety of modern and contemporary artists work. Suitable for those with experience in this drawing approach (who’d like a morning of guided practice), as well as beginners.
This workshop is also available via recording if you are not able to attend the LIVE session
1 DAY IN-PERSON WORKSHOP
‘The true journey of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having fresh eyes’
Marcel Proust
Explore the enriching relationship of drawing and mindfulness and how they can support new ways of seeing and stimulate new directions in your drawing. This workshop is dedicated to the use of colour, drawing inspiration from the work of Hilma af Klint
7-DAY ONLINE HOME RETREAT
Connecting to creativity and the imagination through art, mindfulness and nature
The Heart of Imagination offers a week of meditation and creative practice, drawing inspiration from poetry, art, nature and Buddhist symbols.
4 DAY ONLINE SUMMER SCHOOL
Explore ways of accessing and deepening your relationship to your imagination and discover imagery that has meaning for you. During the course, there will be opportunities to extend your knowledge and experience of drawing and painting, and mindfulness practices to support you to connect with your materials, subject matter and imagination, in noursihing ways..
