ART PROGRAMS
Suzanne's promise...
By the end of your course or retreat, you’ll have moved through creative blocks, realised more of your inner gifts, gained visual art skills and practiced my creativity-nurturing method that together, with your willingness, will give you the freedom to express your true creative Self.
With your new discoveries, you’ll build confidence through seeing what you can do, experience the joy and fulfilment of your unique creative expression and know how to sustain your new mindful art practice.
free gift
If you’d like to be more creative and don’t know where to start, sign up for the free gift below so you can…
~ Ease your worries especially about getting it right!
~ Explore your creativity in privacy
~ Experience the benefits of your being creative – the clarity that comes with being more relaxed, joyful and fulfilled
~ Learn easy art techniques that you can apply to other projects and…
~ Reconnect with your own dear Heart!
INTRO SESSION
Would you like to gain clarity about Suzanne’s contemplative art or her unique art programs?
If so, book your
Discovery Session so you can:
~ Take stock of where you’re at in your life right now
~ Explore what you would love
~ Find out if Suzanne can help you move in the direction of your secret creative dreams!
DECIDE
You’ve had your Discovery Session and it’s time to ask – would I love to feel the freedom of true creative expression and fast track my artistic development?
This is the pathway:
Clear creative block so you can stop procrastinating and get on with your chosen creative endeavour!
follow with MAKE YOUR SACRED ART
Be guided through 8 x 2 hour sessions of meditative art applying your skills and building a raft of new ones so you can develop a profoundly rewarding contemplative art practice
ILLUMINATE MENTORING
6 Months of supporting you with guided practice and the inner work that’s needed sometimes.
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PAINT FROM YOUR HEART
Customised Retreat-Course
SEE THE FULL RETREAT PAGE HERE
Experience the alchemy of your unique visual language with creative freedom guided step-by-step. Discover how you can express your inspired ideas, seeing, yes, you really can paint from your heart!
Clear creative blocks and fast-track your building of foundational skills with nurturing of your creativity, expert instruction and utmost respect.
“… I would describe it as not so much a ‘course’ but a life changing experience. When I went into my studio at the end of the week, and looked through the collection of materials, and the varying evidences of my practice over the years I suddenly and deeply realised “ I am an artist! I find my self filled with awe and inspiration for the magic of light, form, space and colour, expressing feelings and abstract ideas that cannot be realised in representational work. I have new insight into my practice and feel empowered by this beautiful discovery… It has been a re-valuation that has transformed my vision of myself and my place in the world. I am not sure words really express the magic I have discovered. Anyway, it happened at exactly the right time. How wonderful. I am so grateful…”
Pari Gilmour, Secondary School Art Educator
MAKE YOUR SACRED ART:
Meditative Art Program
SEE THE FULL RETREAT PAGE HERE
Discover how easy art-making can be a restorative spiritual practice. Experience soul-soothing replenishment with guided, gentle, contemplative and meditative art projects.
Individual 2 hour workshops are available online and in person – book a time to talk below.
Guiding you step by step into establishing and growing your own contemplative art practice, this course will nurture your creativity. Especially for those who do not consider themselves to be creative, worries melt away as you become immersed in colours. Each project is like a doorway into discovering your Anam Cara – your soul.
“I received more than I could have imagined from this course. I found Suzanne to be a wise and generous teacher, as well as an accomplished artist, giving us practical insights and inspiring examples of other artists’ works, both ancient and modern; pointing out and enlightening us with spiritual aspects, calming and focusing guided meditations enhanced with many group discussions. After completing many paintings and drawings, we left with a solid grounding of how to approach our work in the future with insight and confidence. Thank you Suzanne.”
Liz Martyn
“Well, it slowly creeps up on you without you knowing it, and there you are creating the most amazing things you would never have imagined you were capable of doing. I couldn’t believe what I drew. I never knew I could make something that beautiful. I got closer to who I am and I feel better about myself. You really have something special here Suzanne.”
Steenus von Steenson
ILLUMINATE MENTORING
Having a Painting Mentor is a way of saying – this really matters to me. Mentoring helps you commit the time and focus on your creative practice so you can develop artistically and personally.
Do you keep procrastinating doing the thing you love most?
Feel excited about your art practice again as you experience fast-track development with responsive feedback and guided practice, and SEE your progress!
“I decided this year that I wanted to bring my art practice back into my life, professionally. For the past ten years, it has been a hobby, something that I do on occasion when I have time and feel like it. A nagging feeling had increasingly let me know that this needed to change. I realised that if I was serious about taking this step, that I would need some support. Suzanne instantly came to mind. She was a previous mentor of mine back in my art school days. I remembered how Suzanne works with the whole person, not just the artist, and I knew that the support I was seeking was beyond ‘studio talk’. I was going through a big life change.
I was (and still am) blown away by the potency of the work Suzanne and I did in our sessions. Going to incredibly deep places, from where deep realisations came to the surface. She helped me feel into and embody my truths, and to heal parts within me that have been limiting my potential. This was BIG work, but something I was very ready for, as I needed this change in my life.
Suzanne designed a program for my particular needs – starting with some deep coaching work, and leading into support specifically with my art practice. However Suzanne was amazing at recognising what work needed to be done each session – if I needed coaching, we’d do coaching, if I was going well we’d spend the session talking art instead. I really appreciated this flexible approach, as it gave me the support that I needed.
From our sessions, I am developing a clearer understanding of my art practice. What it is that I am doing, what it is that I am interested in. How to talk about my work. Ideas about what I could explore further. Recommendations of books, articles, artists, and other resources to explore. Looking at the works that I am making, I can see a big change since having started working with Suzanne. I have started painting in a way I hadn’t felt brave enough to do previously. I am less concerned with the result, and using this time to develop and learn. The wonderful thing is I that I can see some exciting things coming out in my works. I haven’t been this dedicated to my art practice since I was in uni. I haven’t felt the possibility of being a professional artist as I do now, since I was a teenager.
I am so grateful for Suzanne’s support. She is an intuitive, heart centred, incredibly knowledgeable and talented woman.
I continue to work with Suzanne, and I recommend her without hesitation.”
Tabitha Hocking, BVA (Painting) Artist (in the above photo taken by Suzanne)