Everything Changes: Impermanence and Process Painting

Everything Changes: Impermanence and Process Painting

After so many years of painting, somehow it really hit me that from the moment we start a painting, impermanence starts, too. I began painting with The Painting Experience in the mid-1980s. After that, I started a meditation practice, studying Buddhist principles and psychology. I took a long break from painting and when I began [...]
A Glimpse of the Process

A Glimpse of the Process

  Every painting is unique and the process is different from person to person, day to day, even moment to moment. What follows is an exploration of the development of one painting through the lens of spiritual practice. The beginning of a painting can be many things. This one came without much interest or inspiration. I [...]
How Will We Greet This World?

How Will We Greet This World?

Earlier this month, the facilitators and affiliates of The Painting Experience came together for a week at Still Meadow Retreat Center outside of Portland, Oregon for our annual gathering. This is a time for us  to  explore the experiences we’ve had during the year leading process painting workshops and classes, as well as to deepen our [...]
Painting and Presence: A Video From The Painting Experience

Painting and Presence: A Video From The Painting Experience

 Process painting offers deep gifts, many of which are similar to the benefits of meditation. In "Painting and Presence," painters share their personal experiences of painting for process rather than product, describing how this way of painting:invites us to show up authentically in our creative expression and in our livesshifts our perspective from a personality level to a deeper, [...]