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Sacred Arts Workshop- 6 mOOns in

This year I've disappeared down the wonderful rabbit hole of Sacred Arts- 13 mOOns. We are nearly at the mid point, the perfect place to stop and pause.

So far we have explored: Space Holding, Pacha Mama, Archetypes & Symbols, Bone Wisdom, Lunar Wisdom, Cycles

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Sacred Arts- Mixed Media Dialogues with the Divine Feminine

Sacred Arts- Mixed Media Dialogues with the Divine Feminine 13 mOOns- a year of In*Spiration

Each time I show up to the blank page or canvas it is to listen. Sometimes I come with an enquiry, sometimes I come just to see what wants to be heard, either way a dialogue unfolds and it is through this dialogue that I create art, that I commune with spirit, that I meet myself.

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Sketching beyond the "Challenge"

To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. Kurt Vonnegut

During my 30 day Sketchbook Challenge I joked about taking my sketchbook into the wild. … The practice of the "challenge" offers a framework of discipline which is not a natural state for me. My creative practice usually looks more free form, following the whims of the muses, working in a variety of mediums, on a variety of projects at anyone time, and allowing myself to be pulled down the rabbit hole …

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The Flower is...the eternal seductiveness of life.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction.

It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

— Giraudoux

Producing this class has been a love affair- a love affair with each of the artists as I fell more and more in love with their work, a love affair with my garden in all it's winter glory, and a love affair with creating, with painting, with sketching, with pastels, with watercolours, with drawing- with the act of making art.

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