2025 Hollyhock: Slow art, somatic practice and creative rest.
July 11-16 2025
Hollyhock Retreat Centre
Cortes Island, BC
I’m happy to announce that Shauna Kaendo and I are back again at Hollyhock this July!
More information can be found here: https://hollyhock.ca/programs/7404/slow-art-somatic-practice-and-creative-rest/ including information on signing up .
Being in conversation with art, process, and our bodies.
In this therapeutic arts program, we offer a blend of creative care practices…getting curious about what that can look and feel like, both individually and in community. Through creative meanderings with solo and collective art-making processes like bilateral drawing, stick brush making, sculptural wrapping, watercolour and ink mucking, we’ll create collaborations with our art materials…ongoing conversations.
We’ll bring together garden remnants and nature bits, deconstructed textiles, used cardboard and paper, silk thread and yarn, watercolour pigment and blossom ink baths. Working in small or big ways, we will be grounded in somatic, sensory, mindfulness, and creative care practices.
Through a series of art prompts, we will explore using various materials, in different ways…to see what they can do, how they behave and intersect with each other…and to notice how we feel in the different processes. How does it feel to be in conversation with our art materials as opposed to trying to control them?
This program will balance collective and solo indoor and outdoor studio practices and meanderings.
