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I will be on sabbatical from teaching workshops as we find our way through the pandemic. Ideas for online workshops are swirling through my being and I will post here when I find the time and right platform to launch.
Wishing everyone a creatively nourishing time until the next workshop. Thank you for your patience.
Blissprints
A Super-Groovy-Fabulistic
Visual Journal Day Retreat
Reflecting upon our inner landscape we will be exploring the process of playing in our journals with wild abandon as we explore making small prints with paint, discovering intriguing ways to incorporate them into the soul stories in our beloved journals.
meditate~journal~sketch~collage~sip tea
eat~dive deep~laugh~cry~love~heal
Please bring:
A writing journal and a Visual Journal(watercolor journals work well for this or you can alter a book- any size is fine but I recommend the 9x12 range if you are just starting out)
Apron or old shirt to protect your clothes. We will be getting blissfully messy!
A pair of scissors with your name on them and any artsy stuff you like that you may want to use. (I provide everything you will need but if you want to bring some stuff that is great.)
Personal Ephemera:(mementos, cards, papers, ticket stubs- any materials that have personal meaning to you or that you just love). Please photocopy anything precious like photos at kinkos). I have lots of things to share so don’t sweat it if you don’t have much.
No previous art experience necessary!
TBA 2018
$95 (includes healthy lunch and art materials)
To register email me at marysuzannegarvey@gmail.com
Ph. 503 789-2245
Journal Adornment Workshop
I will be revealing my moleskine journal cover secrets in this fun class. We will be decorating at least three journal covers with paint and all manner of mixed media. These will make lovely gifts with your own personal style to give to loved ones or keep for your own private missives.To view examples of my hand made moleskine journals click on the painted journals page on the left index list.
TBA
$95 (includes healthy lunch and materials. If you want to make more than three journals you can pay for extra journals ($7 each)
To register email me at marysuzannegarvey@gmail.com
Ph. 503 789-2245
Some say we are made of stardust; that our bloodlines map our souls back through time to ancient wisdom and bone deep knowing, and that all we have to do is allow ourselves some stillness for the knowing in our souls to awaken. We will be relaxing into our innate and intuitive gifts and journey into our hearts as we meditate, play, create and enjoy the healing process of blending writing with images and discover the poetry that sings in our souls. We will be creating a safe haven to return to again and again, a refuge in our being that provides us with nourishment and reminds us to rest and receive when we become world weary, a sanctuary where we can remember ourselves back home.
Sipping Beauty
painting playshop
Spend a day schmooshing, playing, improvising, mark making and generally having a marvelous time immersed in the glorious world of paint and mixed media. We will be working on small canvas, scrumptious paper and in our visual journals, layering paint with collage and journal elements to create beautiful expressive and unique art brimming with beauty.
Beginning the day with a guided, relaxing meditation we will step through the portal of the busy pace of our lives into a nourishing day devoted to healing through the creative process.
TBA 2018
To register please contact me at:
marysuzannegarvey@gmail.com
ph. 503 789-2245
Visual journal work is a deeply personal, soulful and intuitive process of merging journal writing and text with collage, paint, ink, drawing and all manner of mixed media. When I teach a workshop I also include a guided meditation to help prepare us to step through the portal of the world of doing into the realm of being and feeling. Here are some examples of my work. To see the work of some of the lovely participants in previous workshops click on the workshop gallery link.
