These workshops are designed to be highly adaptable. While my artistic practice has centered on encaustic for over two decades, my present endeavor is to cultivate and inspire the innate creative expression in others. Encaustic remains a foundational element, strategically employed within these immersive experiences.

Unearth your authentic artistic voice and learn to wield its power to inspire, enlighten, and ignite change. This immersive workshop guides you on a journey of profound self-discovery, utilizing painting, collage, sketching, and nature-based exploration as tools for creative excavation. We’ll delve into the rich tapestry of your personal experiences, weaving them into your art and illuminating how your unique vision resonates with the world. Through this process, you’ll awaken your innate ability to be a visionary and a pioneer, crafting art that leaves a lasting impact. Prepare to explore the depths of your emotional landscape, forge a deep connection with the earth, and amplify your artistic voice with newfound clarity and confidence. 

Embark on a transformative journey to discover and articulate your unique artistic voice, empowering you to create art that inspires and illuminates. 

A sample of practice topics:

• life sizing yourself
• nature put in its place
• written inclusions
• alternative surfacing
• transformative color through intuitive matching

Paint, color, form: These taken alone are simple. Taken together, they offer the hand that holds them innumerable opportunity to become the prophet of their own life, and to pioneer messages for others into the future.

In this workshop we take each unique life experience and divine the motivation to tell it’s best story through paint, sketch, layering, and depth exploration.

Come prepared to learn the deepest messages of your soul, so that then, connecting more resonantly to the code it holds to affect its audience.

This workshop is painting-centric with investigations into:

• non-dominant painting
• color mixing and personal paint making
• charcoal manipulations
• timed immersions
• one eye landscapes
• one eye still life
• long reach expressionism
• blind color work

Life is ever-changing and full of potential. Within each of us lies the power to reflect on the past, embrace the present, and envision a vibrant future. By tapping into these innate human capacities, artists have the extraordinary ability to shape new realities and inspire others to join their creative journey.

In this immersive workshop I invites you into my artistic sanctuary to experience firsthand the environment, intuitions, and practices that have fueled my pioneering spirit and propelled my artistic pilgrimage. Whether you call it a beginner’s mind, childlike wonder, divine inspiration, or a touch of magic, discovering your unique spark is the key to unlocking a lifetime of fulfillment, exploration, and artistic growth.
Let’s embark on this transformative adventure together.

Focus intentions:

• Develop ways of rediscovering your innate creativity (for life!)
• Enrich a strong(er) artistic foundation
• Exposure to a supportive and inspiring artistic community
• Learn practical techniques to overcome creative stagnancy
• A sample of possible tools and techniques explored:
  • lino stamp cutting
  • hand stitching
  • nondominant drawing and painting
  • color mixing and personal paint making
  • charcoal manipulation
  • abstracted pastel drawing
  • timed immersions
  • one eye landscapes
  • one eye still life

The adaptability of these workshops leaves creative space so that we can collaboratively tailor the duration, scope, and specific content to best suit your venue, your audience, and your desired outcomes. This approach ensures the workshop delivers maximum value and accessibility to participating artists. I look forward to working with you!