Painting Myself Free

Painting Myself Free

We’re happy to offer the following guest post by Diana Pop, who recently attended a Painting Experience workshop at Esalen and shared this wonderful description of her time in the studio. For the longest time, I painted all wrong. I started pieces with specific end...
Creating Outside the Lines

Creating Outside the Lines

It’s hard to believe, but I’ve been posting to Facebook for The Painting Experience for almost eleven years. We have a large number of Facebook followers — about 64,000 — but because of the way its algorithms work, Facebook shows each of our...
Creative Challenge As Initiation

Creative Challenge As Initiation

Homesick for moderation, Half the world’s artists shrink or fall away. If any find solution, let him tell it. Meanwhile I bend my heart toward lamentation Where, as the times implore our true involvement, The blades of every crisis point the way. I would it were not...