Get closer to your creative core, explore the root of your creative impulses, and realise the breadth of your creativity. Work with image, text and form, guided by your senses through visualisation, meditation and process.
Your tutor is an artist, mentor and creativity coach, providing you with a supportive and encouraging space for you to uncover more of your uniqueness as a creative individual.
Working with your senses, dreams and imagination, you will be led through a number of exercises designed to reveal and strengthen your creative core. Using your favourite materials and techniques, alongside some new ones, you will begin to express the essence of your Creative Self, through images, text, texture and form. Sixty percent of the course is working with the senses, using visualisation, meditation and process, and forty percent is expressing your voice through materials.
You will be encouraged to take risks, to let go of any preconceived ideas you may have about yourself and your creativity, and to be really open to meet and explore your most authentic Creative Self.
This course is about experiential and experimental processes, not about making finished pieces. It is suitable for visual artists, writers, musicians and makers of all kinds. No previous experience is necessary.
You will leave the course with a new found confidence in your Creative Self, a deeper understanding of your purpose for creating and a concrete plan around maintaining your practice in the following months
Included
The cost of some drawing materials, paints, paper and clay will be provided, which will be shared amongst the group
What students need to bring
You will need a sketchbook, pens, eraser and pencils.
In the weeks leading up to the course, pay attention to materials which attract you and that you enjoy using. Where possible, gather them up to bring to the course. These may include a special sketchbook, pens, pencils, pastels, chalks, crayons, etc., and may also include glues, scissors, string and more.
You may like to bring a camera or device to photograph your work as you go along
Available to buy
Available from the shop
A good variety of art materials, including: sketchbooks A5 and A4, pens, pencils, pastels, crayons, etc.
Additional information
It is a fundamental part of the work that we will be doing together that there is full group participation. Each session builds on the previous one. It is therefore important that when you book this course that you can ensure you can attend each and every session. Full participation with all exercises, group dialogue and experiential processes is vital for the course to be a success for everyone. No experience of meditation or mindfulness is necessary, as the tutor will lead beginners through this on the course.
Please wear appropriate clothing/aprons for the workshop or studio. This includes stout covered footwear, i.e. no open-toes or sandals
Saturday
Student registration: 9.45am
Course teaching: 10am - 5pm
Morning session: 10am - 1pm including coffee/tea break
Lunch break: 1pm - 2pm*
Afternoon session: 2pm - 5pm including coffee/tea break
Teaching finishes: 5pm
Sunday Course teaching: 9am - 4pm
Morning session: 9am-1pm including coffee/tea break
Lunch break: 1pm - 2pm*
Teaching finishes: 4pm
*Lunch can be purchased on campus, view options
