How can we benefit from art?
What can art do?
- Art can bring us together!
- Art can reduce stress and anxiety
- It can be a form of self care
- Art can inspire and stimulate imagination
- Art can help us connect to our inner child
- It can create conversation and raise awareness
- Art freezes moments in time
- Art inspires others
- It can help boost self esteem
- We can use art as a form of meditation
Join like-minded people in creating a safe, fun and inspiring community!
Included within the Artistic Liberation membership
- 2 X monthly online paint together workshops, with guided meditation and prompts to get you out of your head as you create.
- Membership area where you will find recordings of live guided painting sessions.
- Optional community chat, where you will be able to share your creations, ask advice and get to know other community members.
- A monthly email with a sketchbook project and general updates and inspiration!
The online paint together workshops are guided by Gemma, an artist and trained yoga and meditation teacher. They include meditations and prompts to reduce stress, unleash your creative freedom, while trying new techniques and materials to express yourself with art.
This is ideal for you if
- You are a budding artist but don't know where to start
- You are an artist who struggles to get inspired
- You long for creative freedom
- You need a few hours a month to yourself
- You need an outlet for expression
- You love learning new art techniques
- You need inspiration to get started with art
- You love your own space but you enjoy community and making new friends
- You've never painted before and learning seems daunting
- Every time you paint, you throw it away or give up because its not 'perfect'
This membership works with you! During school holidays you are welcome to bring your children along to create with you! All workshops for adults and artists alike will help develop artistic skill, as well as exploration of fun and unusual techniques to connect to their inner child!
What to expect from the paint with me workshops
The workshops will take on 2 different formats per month, both based on mark making, having fun and letting go. They will be 90 minutes in length, and in both we will partake in mindfulness activities and mini mediations, a complete judgement free zone to enable you to explore painting and self expression in a safe space.
The first will be much more abstract in nature and in guidance, with no specific outcome in mind. Learning and trying out different techniques and using materials you may not have thought of using before to spark your imagination.
The second will be about more specific mark making with a general idea of what the outcome may be - but without worrying what that will look like! It should be about the process of creating, not the outcome itself.
Workshops will differ in day, date and theme each month - you will find details of when they are here and via the members area and emails once you are a member.
Who is this membership for?
Everyone!
Never painted? That's ok!
Established artist? You never stop learning!
This membership is aimed at adults who have never painted, want more experience or who already paint but want to try something different and meet other people who enjoy the same things.
Children are very welcome to join in during holidays or if they are at home and just won't leave you alone! (I fully expect that mine might take part or wander in and out if I schedule our workshops for when they are home! Art is for everyone after all)
While we we will be covering some figurative work some months, there will not be anything inappropriate for children to learn.
No nudes!
Artistic Liberation is about letting go, being free with paint (and other mediums) and how you work, changing up techniques while learning how to refine others. In this membership we will cover basics as well as more advanced or what some might say are unusual techniques!
It is not about perfection!
It is not about every sketchbook page looking the same.
We can all learn from each other, and together we can shine!