by The Painting Experience | Dec 6, 2016 | Articles, Workshop Videos
We have a big workshop underway at the Esalen Institute this week. So large, in fact, that it outgrew the space where Stewart usually shows films to participants. (If you've been to one of our programs, you know how this works: During a weekend workshop, you'll usually see one video at the end of the [...]
by The Painting Experience | Jun 28, 2016 | Articles, Video
I learned that if you just feel free, wonderful things will happen.I’m astounded by how eagerly children take to process painting -- and by the joy they discover from trusting their own internal spontaneity and intuition. I see kids taking risks by painting images they’ve never painted before, experiencing how “mistakes” can lead to inspiration, [...]
by The Painting Experience | May 17, 2016 | Video
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, [...]
