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Give a young child some paper and paint and they probably won't ask: “Am I creative enough to use this?” They won't spend twenty minutes wondering whether the blue is the correct blue. They probably won't compare their picture with something they saw on Instagram. And they certainly won't ask whether painting is a productive use of their afternoon. They simply begin. Somewhere between childhood and adulthood, many of us lose some of that freedom. We become more careful. More

Perhaps you've been looking at an intuitive painting class and thinking: I'd really like to try this... but what actually happens when I get there? Do I need to know how to paint? Will everyone else be more experienced than me? Will I be told what to paint? What if I don't know what to do? And perhaps the slightly uncomfortable one: What if everyone is looking at my painting? If you're coming to an Art & Wellness session for the first time, I want you to know that you don't n

“I’d love to paint, but I’m not artistic.” I hear this more often than you might imagine. Sometimes it is followed by: “I can’t even draw a straight line.” “I haven’t painted since school.” “I wouldn’t know where to start.” Or simply: “I’m not creative.” If any of these thoughts sound familiar, I want to tell you something: you don't need to feel artistic before you start painting. You start where you are. Painting is not something reserved for people who were naturally talen

This is at the heart of intuitive painting: creating by listening to your instincts, experimenting and allowing the painting to develop one choice at a time. For many adults, this can feel surprisingly unfamiliar.