Pure Process~The Art of Creativity

It is an approach to teaching art that is accepting, open, and supportive of each person’s pilgrimage to their own creative essence. It is allowing feelings, memories, and the greater universal connection  to be expressed through the media of art.

Pure Process is about listening through your eyes and heart to the messages your art may have for you, allowing your art to "speak" to you with colour, shape, texture and energy. Everyone was born with a creative spirit and everyone expresses this creativity in diverse ways.

However, sometimes we feel the doorway to our creative spirit has become stuck, locked,or is only open a crack. Pure Process can guide you to fling open the doorways to your creative spirit. This can overflow into your everyday life and you will find yourself feeling, thinking and doing things differently.

Take the leap into the palette of your intuition….and take a class...
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Genius is not a posession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone.

Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest.

~Robert Henri

 

 

 

 

 

Fairy Tale Painting: Untie the Strong Woman:

Stories from Clarissa Pinkola Estes*:

Mon May 7-28th, 2012 (4 wks)

Mon AM 9:30am-12:30pm

OR Mon PM 7-10pm

Cost: $110-, all supplies included as well as tea and goodies. Digital images of your work will be emailed to you weekly.
"Untie the Strong Woman" is based on Clarissa Pinkola Estes book and CD's by the same name. We will begin each class by listening to the telling of a story from Estes' CD. Than we will paint what speaks to us fron that story. Through this process we will unfold our own connection to the Strong Woman. Fairy Tales are full of characters and symbols that connect us to our deeper selves. These can bring meaningful messages to us through painting the abstract or realistic images from the feelings and thoughts that the story evokes in us. These Fairy tales have ancient archetypes and information that thread back throgh many generations to touch our souls.

* Clarissa Pinkola Estes is author of  "Women Who Run With the Wolves"

 

She wears hundreds of costumes, dozens of skin tones,

is patroness of deserts, mountains, stars and oceans.

Thus she comes to us in billions of images,

but at her center,

she is the Great Immaculate Heart.

~Clarissa Pinkola Estes

 

  

 

 I believe it is impossible to make sense of life

in this world except through art.

~Daniel Pinkwater

 

JUMP INTO JUNE: Pure Playful Process: Paint and other Stuff:

Thurs. June 7- 28th, 2012 (4 wks)

AM class: 9:30 am-12:30pm

PM class 7-10 pm

$110, All supplies included as well as tea and goodies served.

Digital images of your paintings will be emailed to you weekly.

Using a combination of "jumping off points" in four short weeks we will laugh, play, express and explore through art, using primarily paint and sometimes a combination of paint, drawing and collage materials. Here, we will begin to activate our outer and inner sources of creativity to express and explore the many possibilities of the painting process and cultivate a desire for creative expression. This class is aimed at those desiring a freedom of expression; all levels of painters are welcome. No prior experience necessary.

There is no must in art because art is free.

~Wassily Kandinsky

 

 

Pure Painting and Archetypes: Our "Intimate Companions"

Thurs Feb 16- May 24, 2012 (no classes April 5 or 12) 

Thurs AM: 9:30 am-12:30pm AM CLASS FULL (May be put on Wait List)

OR Thurs PM: 7-10pm PM CLASS FULL (May be put on a Wait List)

Cost:$350-(13 wks) (can be paid in 4 cheques of $87.50- or 2 payments of $175-) Includes all supplies except the book, Sacred Contracts by Carolynn Myss. Tea and goodies served. Digital images of your work will be emailed to you weekly.

Archetypes are the architects of our lives.

They are the energy companions through whom we can learn to understand ourselves.

~ Carolyn Myss

 Jung believed that the archetype is a model of behavior, personalities or people and that it is instincitve in nature. In this next session, we will work with Carolyn Myss' book, Sacred contracts, using her outline of archetypes. Lisa has offered this class before some years ago and it was a powerful experience. Through the language of paint and relection, we will discover the relationship each of us has to these "intimate companions" (as Carolyn Myss refers to them). We will work with four Universal Archetypes that Myss outlines in her book. As well, participants will choose their own personal eight archetypes. Through the painting process, we may begin to see how these archetypes can guide us as inimate companions in our lives thus opening the door to conscious choice in how we respond to people, places and events and strenghening our understanding of the role they play in our lives. In a safe environment, begin to trust your intuition and inner world of colours, shapes and textures. A wilingness to be open ot the painting process is all that is needed for this class. No prior experience necessary.

 

 

 

 

 

I don't think of myself making art.

I do what I do because I want to,

because painting is the best way

I've found to get along with myself.

~Robert Rauschenberg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Art Birthday Party:

Come to Lisa's studio for your child's birthday party leaving the set-up, art activity and clean-up to Lisa. Some themes include "Special Boxes", "Fairy Tale Painting" (with a guest story teller), "Full sized Self Portraits", or "Art Journals". All you need to bring is the cake and camera. Kids get to take their artwork home. Max number of participants: 6-8 (including adults), unless the weather is nice!

Cost: $125 for 2hrs.

 

 

 

 

One-on-One:

For those wanting to work with their images on a deeper level, a one-on-one  with Lisa is a great option. No experience is necessary for this process, only the willingness to be open. Using a process called "active dialoguing", you will access the underlying messages that your paintings hold for you. This is a poweful process that can further changes in your outer and inner life. Each session lasts for ~ 2hrs. There is a sliding scale of $75- to $95-. All supplies included.

 Create a Class:

Do you have a group of people you would like to create with? Lisa will work with you to "create a class" that fits the needs of your group. Throw an "Art Party" for yourself or your chikd and leave the set-up, clean up and planning to her! This could also be a corporate or office creativity day; build team spirit and strengthen relationships witha playful, creative approach. Or gather a group of friends together to create. Call Lisa to brainstorm.

Gift Certificates:

Give the gift of creativity to a friend or loved one. Gift certificates can be created for any amount and used for any class. Gift certificates can also be put towards purchasing a piece of Lisa's art. Call Lisa and she will create a gift card for you.

About the Facilitator:

Lisa is an artist and art teacher whose passion is to explore and open with others the creative possibilities within. She has been doing this successfully since 1999 through designing and teaching her Pure Process Art classes. Her teaching has developed from her own personal painting process, her ongoing study of process based art work and all she has learned from her many inspiring students. Lisa teaches both children and adults in her own studio as well as for the Comox Valley School District and NIDES. She also ran a weekly art program at Eureka Clubhouse for adults with persistent mental illness 10yrs. She has done team building and professional development workshops for teachers, mental health care workers and day care providers.In 2006, Lisa was nominated Mentor of the Year for the Arts and Culture Awards. Lisa has her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from UBC.

For more information or to pre-register

please call Lisa Kirk at 250-334-2567 or

email pureprocessart@telus.net

Location:

Classes held at

THE ART ROOM

1986 Cumberland Rd

Courtenay, BC, V9N 2E9

Unless otherwise specified.

Class size is limited.

Cancellations must be 7 days prior to class for full refund.