the Art Loft
contact: artloft.thornbury@gmail.com
the art loft is a beautiful, warm and bright loft space next to the home of Julie and Sean Brady and their family in Thornbury, ON. Located at 147 Bruce St., the art loft offers classes that are small in size and designed to evoke creative exploration. Julia weaves in engaging themes into these classes that employ a wide variety of different media. Students are encouraged to follow the lead of their inner muse, to see the world through the lens of wonder and imagination, to be curious and inventive! A variety of techniques will be shared and skills honed to bring to life through art the uniqueness of you.
new class for adults
meditation and muse
Join artist Julia White for this six-week intensive designed to inspire a sense of ease and wellbeing through personal discovery and self-expression. meditation and muse is an invitation to open up to the deep, creative place within where we may gain insight into our own life journey. The basic theme for the series circles around the Four Elements- earth, air, fire and water. We will explore each of these basic elements in both the meditation and the muse segment of each class. In the first half, we will focus on relaxation and receptivity through a gentle flow of breathing, meditation and movement exercises. Guided visualizations and elements of Flow Yoga, Deep Listening R and Qi Gong are woven in to help facilitate this process. Renewed, we may then move easily into a drawing session. Each time we will work with the qualities of the new element at hand and see what is revealed. Being open to what arrives, our mark-making becomes intuitive, flowing, effortless, authentic. The materials that we will use are simple- mainly black, white, red and grey conte on quality drawing paper. There will be time for sharing at the end of each session!
all are welcome
tuition- $150/six weeks
Julia White is a visual artist who facilitates creativity. In 2003, the artist published saturna cards: for creative journeying, an inspirational deck of cards for self-discovery and personal transformation. She is a Deep Listening certificate holder, a meditation practice developed by renowned composer Pauline Oliveros that enhances awareness of sound, silence and sounding and that encourages creativity. She is also a teacher of Flow Yoga, developed by Kaila Kukla of Toronto, that combines Tantric and Kundalini yoga. Julia weaves elements of all of these disciplines into her work.
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