Winter Painting Retreat

Catching the Spirit:  Shaping the Fleeting Moment by exploring accident and intention

Four days to step out of everyday life and into the immersive, colourful world of the studio, painting in the beautiful surrounds of Emerson College. In these four days we will begin to open up and explore abstract space, structure and colour. Through

drawing and painting we will explore relationships and wholeness within the artwork, focusing on composition and placement. We will use the immediacy and vibrancy of acrylics to develop these dynamics in our exciting colour conversations.

Paul Valery defined the artistic experience of creation as that of a ‘Statu Nascendi’, a free coming into being, an activity leading to the revelation of something new. It is possible in this way to free ourselves from the influence, known styles and ambitions of others, seeing clearly and hearing more deeply our own authentic voice.