Free Expression Painting
The Art of Surrender
Authentic Creativity is an absolute necessity for human wellness. It has many modalities and there are many paths to choose from in terms of one’s own individual “expression” in the world. Free Expression Painting is simply one way of approaching one’s own unique creative voice and learning to trust the transformational power of the creative process.
Meaningful Mixed Media
In the Meaningful Mixed Media workshop students learn many art-making skills including gesso, under/over painting, crackling, sanding and staining to create an aged veneer, as well as stenciling. Each student will take home a genuine jewel, 6″ x 7″, in the color of their choice with or with out sparkles!
Wine, Women and Paint
Spend a ALL day in the studio with Caroline working on a large beautiful professionally crafted hollow cradle, creating the design of your choice, being served a beautiful gourmet vegetarian lunch, while sipping some delicious local vino (or two).
Friends & Family Big Abstract Painting
Expanding the boundaries of collaborative creativity
Create a LARGE and beautiful abstract painting with a group of friends, colleagues, or family! Using gorgeous color and simple brushes, and spontaneous writing, you will collaborate with all participants to create a unique image that reflects the character and energy, and unique creativity of all the individuals in the group.
Couples Art Making
Day Retreat
This is a wonderful, restful entire day of creativity and peace, a beautiful lunch and a little wine if you like, just for the two of you! Bring someone you care about to the studio. For couples, BFF’s, Mom and Daughter Day, any two will do!
The Art of Giving
Radical Acts of Community Kindness: Making Art and Making a Difference
Want to have an amazing weekend of art making, learning many exciting mixed media processes with a fantastic group of people AND make a personal difference in peoples lives?
In this incredible weekend we will learn many mixed media process and then put them to powerful use adding to the energy of hope, love, peace and kindness in the world. A fantastic experience!
Caroline is a gem. She creates a work space that is not just safe and supportive but is also deeply moving both personally and artistically. Highly skilled in intuitive inquiry, she leads the group with an open heart, allowing and encouraging each person’s inner and outer processes to find their balance while also losing the inner critic.
I recommend her workshops to anyone needing to explore, soften and/or deepen their relationship to their own creative process.
It was a great adventure, and I would recommend this workshop for anyone looking to get in touch with their creativity in any area of life. Caroline is a sensitive, inquisitive, knowledgable and caring facilitator, and she kept us gently through our personal journeys.
Even though its been awhile since I took the workshop, the learnings I took away are still with me. It was the beginning of finding my creative processes a means of self expression. I needed to find the creative medium that would allow me to bring onto the light all that lay in the depths of my soul. Fortunately there was enough instruction and support in Caroline’s workshop that I was not left floundering in self doubt and critical judgements of my creative abilities.
I believe the workshop facilitated the beginning of my willingness to put aside those limiting beliefs about creativity and what it means to be an artist.
Caroline has the unique ability to see the creative spark in everyone. Fortunately she has the ability to fan those little sparks into long lasting glowing embers. Since taking that workshop I have counted the creative journey in ways I could never have anticipated. I found my creative medium in fibre arts through felting, weaving, natural dyes, embroidery etc.
Being able to see myself as an artistic person has broadened my sense of self and my beliefs around art and creativity. And best of all the gems I gleaned from my time with Caroline, is the joy that arises within from each artist adventure.
Caroline establishes and holds a strong and abiding container in which love, trust and support are generously given. We beautiful women came together, with all that we carried, and were met by Caroline with non-judgement and unconditional love.
The calm and nurturing nature environment became a reflection of our deeper selves as we connected deeply to each other and our own unique creative process. And did we have fun? You bet we did!
I was at a burnout point in my professional life and needed time and space to recover. I am not an artist but was drawn to the retreat because of its emphasis on mindfulness and expressing oneself in a different way. My familiar ways of dealing with the challenges of my professional life weren’t working anymore and her gentle, accepting and caring approach to painting as a spiritual practice was exactly what I needed. Two unexpected outcomes were that it was a catalyst for me to reshape my consulting practice, and i have actually started painting!
I highly recommend this retreat if you are looking for an inspiring environment to reflect on your life, to explore and express a different side of yourself, and ultimately, to fell energized and renewed!
The group setting in powerful and dynamic as many and varied individuals travel the path of their own process. All the while I felt that Caroline’s soft but powerful presence was always available or me. My artwork has changed and my art practice has deepened after every experience I have had with her.
I’ve recommend these workshops to just about everyone I know, in particular artists, and really anyone who needs a little caretaking and a soft gentle nudge to explore themselves through the magic of creativity.
Botton line, I love Caroline! Her workshops have helped to transform me. I will absolutely immerse myself in the experience many more times. Something in me always grows and changes in the process.
Interested in a Workshop?
If you live on Gabriola or are going to be visiting our beautiful island, and you have a group of four to eight people interested in taking a workshop, please contact me as much in advance as possible with dates and times you might be interested in having some creative fun and wonder in the studio,…😊,…
I will do my best to accommodate your schedule!