Our Lives Are Works of Art

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SUITE 4 - 225 CANADA AVE I DOWNTOWN DUNCAN (250) 748-0251

Join me for a halfday or full-day workshop and create a Wabi Sabi piece or begin a Life Book that combines elements of mixed media, collage, destruction, intuition, discovering the beauty in something old/ mundane/broken, and conscious choice. We will be approaching our artwork with curiosity, and a sense of play, gently and with vulnerability building images and texts into collages that speak to the heart of who we are. By using found objects, old books and any other scraps we come across we will have the opportunity to rip, tear, break and put things back together again. In my work, I have found that ‘playing’ with words, colours, images, textures and objects touches our authenticity more than ‘trying’ to write a biography or life vision. For me art is about exploration, vulnerability and authenticity, it is a wonderful opportunity to turn off our inner Judges and Critics and return to the open state of a child. “Embracing wabi-sabi is as easy (or as difficult) as understanding and accepting yourself — imperfections and all. It’s about being compassionate with yourself as you are, and building on whatever that is — not feverishly trying to rebuild yourself in order to pose as something else entirely.”

- Beth Kempton (Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life)

Learn about composition, colour, collage, intuitive writing, drawing and mixed media artwork. What to bring: paper, glue, old book(s), things you find on the Our Lives are Works of Art road, paints, pencils, broken things, old things that you loved that now can not be used and anything else that tickles your fancy. Lunch if you are staying for the full day. Cost: Half-day: $105 Full-day: $190 To register contact Soleil at soleilispainting@gmail.com Saturday, December 17th, 10 am - 1:00 pm or 10 am - 4:30pm Sol Centre, 5380 Trans-Canada Hwy, Duncan Soleil Mannion “I love helping people be creative, authentic and confident. By coaching people to connect to their feelings through art, I believe they can develop a sense of play and fearlessness that spills into other areas of their lives.”