Please join me at Wayflowering Flower Farm, in Charlottesville, VA (home also to Thistlerock Mead Company) for an early evening of relaxed painting and mead sipping. A pick your own flower bouquet is included in the cost of your ticket, and you will get to paint and take your fresh flowers home with you. Water and baked treats will be provided, as well as all painting materials.

This workshop is offered on a sliding scale that includes your flower bouquet, $85-105. Please choose the tier that is right for you (there are 4 spots at $85, 3 at $95 and 3 at $105). There is one scholarship spot offered as well. To apply for the scholarship, please email me and tell me why you would like to attend this workshop. A scholarship winner will be contacted 2 weeks prior to the class date. See below for more details!

When: Friday May 24th, 4:30-6:30 pm

Where: 3075 Gables Run Road, Charlottesville, VA 22902

Ritual in Watercolor: Painting workshops weaving together presence with embodied creative flow

These workshops are explorations in how we create the spaces of sacredness and ritual, to give ourselves more fully to the creative spark that is present within each of us. The class will be taught with mindful compassion, and offer practices for setting up your own space so that you can give yourself fully to your art practice. We will learn simple tools and tricks for building your best environment, and learning how to work with watercolor as a medium. Using subjects from life that we have either foraged together, or have been provided for us, we will learn how to thoughtfully arrange our subjects and paint what we can observe and sense in our most open awareness. 

This class is for anyone who desires to support their own creative practice with more reverence, play, and intentionality, and for anyone interested in learning how to work with watercolor within that context. This class is 2 hours and include meditations and gentle seated movement practices. Please come in comfortable clothes that you can relax in outdoors.

My hope is that you can take these practices with you, and find ways to create ritual, play, and a sense of ceremony around any day to day happenings in your life, infusing the mundane with the magical.