Art & Wellness Workshops at The Old Sun Inn

ABSTRACT MONO PRINTING

Using acrylic paints and watercolours on glass panels, you'll create unique monotypes and learn how to use basic stencilling and masking in the creation of your abstract masterpieces. 

To compliment this experience, I will kick off the evening with some CREATIVE EXERCISES to move us from left to right brain thinking, and lead us through a MINDFUL MEDITATION to bring us into the present moment and allow those artistic ideas to flow.

BEN SPRINGHAM FASHION FLOW & NEON LEO

Fashion Flow is a therapeutic art class, providing an opportunity to find joy and tranquility in an explorative and non-judgemental environment; to be in harmony with one’s creative flow, with the aim to nurture and explore our unique visual language that we were born with.

Centering the class around the concept of play, you will be aided with exercises and techniques to help build the foundations of a fashion drawing, whilst integrating and exploring the processes of mark making, observation and self-reflection.

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COLLAGE & VISION BOARDS

You can create your own vision board with words and images to embody your ambitions and plans, or create artworks personal to you using magazines, maps and old photographs. The images you use will work with your subconscious to create the state of mind you want and to help focus you in the direction you need to go to meet those goals.

I will kick off the evening with an introduction to MANIFESTATION and The Law of Attraction, the belief that we can attract into our lives whatever we set our focus on, and make our dreams into a reality through our positive visualisation of them.

PORTRAIT SKETCHING

You'll have the choice of drawing a portrait of somebody else, or creating a self-portrait using pencil charcoal or pastels. Jessica will offer some tuition on drawing techniques although you're welcome to freestyle if you prefer.

I will kick off the evening by sharing ways that REFRAMING helps us to take control of automatic negative thoughts, how we can interrupt an unhelpful inner dialogue and the powerful benefits that POSITIVE AFFIRMATIONS can have in all areas of our lives.

CHARCOAL STILL LIFE SKETCHING

You will learn how to create beautiful charcoal still life drawings with some warm-up exercises that include drawing with your non-dominant hand, and how to achieve different tones with blending and erasing.

I will kick off the evening by sharing some of the powerful ways that GRATITUDE can positively impact our wellbeing and mental health, and lead us through a MEDITATION to activate those feelings within.

ZEN INK PAINTING

Monochrome ink painting has a history originating in ancient China and is associated with Zen Buddhism which emphasises 'simplicity, spontaneity and self-expression'. The unique properties of ink as a medium are really fun to work with as the ink interacts with water in unpredictable dynamic swirls, and under guidance from Jessica, you will create your own beautiful figurative or abstract ink paintings. 

I will kick off the evening by introducing HAVENING, a gentle yet powerful psycho-sensory, self-soothing technique that is easy to learn and share with loved ones.