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July 12th and 13th
We return again in this 10th year of holding workshops here at this creative haven for us.
Come join us for this tender and liberating way in to drawing life drawing the beauty and aliveness
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Time to gather, to touch in, to receive .. to draw and draw and move and be moved.
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‘Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about’
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JULY 12th & 13th
Chawton Village hall, Hampshire
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Lifelines
The intimacy & vibrancy of drawing from life.
Life drawing in this way, we are centred in presence, being in the body,in the moment. Open to beginner & experienced Artist. An instinctive approach cultivating our responsiveness to express with freedom.
**This is a non - residential
Whether you are experienced or believe you can’t draw at all, you will find yourself moving into relaxed seeing and relating to the movement and the poses of the models and in turn seeing life with a renewed sense of wonder.
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This practice provides a space for opening our creativity, experimentation and expression and becoming more present with ourselves, our materials these fibres of life and each other. Together we will connect with these senses and explore the richness and vitality of what it means to be drawn by life.
You will be encouraged to rest, to pause and relax into the mark gesture movement made on to the paper and be led into the natural meditative state of presence.
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You will make many, many drawings, many marks, many discoveries. You will have time to find and search and times of invitation & tuition.
This approach will encourage you to develop a fluent and rich drawing language. You will begin to cultivate a capacity to move more freely between felt presence, sensing, seeing and gesture. Open to beginner & experienced artists.
It is life drawing with a big emphasis on the LIFE, the feeling, empathy, widening our seeing, tuning into our own body to sense subtleties, dynamics, the humanity and presence that then allows us to capture the particular rhythms, the poetry the qualities of the moment.
Over these days you will be given the space to relax – physically and mentally – into a safe, pleasurable, free creative space. You will be invited to connect & play with a range of natural materials, immersing in the qualities and reflections of the elements , encouraged to let each instrument; hand or feather show you their way of drawing .
As the pose touches you, you touch the paper and you touch something in yourself – it is from here that authentic drawing emerges. Rather than you doing the drawing, the drawing is done through you.
Our traces of encounter are our marks on paper that can endure with vitality, a creation that is beyond time.
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Morag Donnelly leads a small group and is accompanied by dear friends longtime collaborators. Who are deeply experienced in this practice. Artists and movers who bring insight and beautiful natural movement to life. All three of us bringing sensitive and alive responsiveness through our bodies whether in a duet or alone embodying the essence of ‘The Muse'. Together this all creates the beautiful inspiration, that touches into our heart and soul liberating the creative.
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Working with recorded and sometimes live music ; an atmosphere is created of inspiration and sensitivity. This informs the truth of the models gestures and a freedom within our own ability to respond to the moment. You will be given helpful individual guidance to ensure you get the most from the course. She is a dedicated and passionate encourager of all people to open to their unique and innate creative wisdom.
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Morag is a trained/practicing Artist, was honoured to work alongside and travelling with Meriel gold ( taught by Cecil Collins ) giving 'Drawnhome' courses in Uk and NYC for over 15 years. She a Dancer & founder of Lifeline Arts & life sensing and facilitated with the 'Dancingtao' collective, now 'Unbound Moving Arts'. Morag has been working with this body/presence movement - drawing practice, teaching in groups and 1-1 with children and adults for 20 years.
Morag’s teaching is supported by her background in the healing arts, influences of a wide range of movement work and her training in therapeutic sexual psycho-somatic practices.
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Spaces are limited to 14 places
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Sliding scale Abundant £215/ Regular £190
(A couple of Concession spaces are offered at £160
Please get in touch enquire)
Paper for w/end is £15
Earlybird is £175 until June 14th
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All welcome
from age 16 up
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To book in & further info
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