Art Life Journalling: Pathfinding for Arty People

Create, reflect and transform! Rekindle your spark as an artist and discover easy ways to sustain art journalling habits.
About this Event

Here's how I finally worked out what I wanted my creative life to be.

I pressed pause. I decided that time spent pausing and pondering would ultimately help me make better decisions about my life, work and values - and I reframed my definition of success. ​

​I took out my Artist Life Journal - it's a combination of a diary, a scrapbook, a sketchbook and a notebook. I started doodling, collecting and reflecting.

A drawing a day to keep self-doubt away.

Creating and using an your Art Life Journal rekindles the spark. ​

Not in a scary way, but you'll feel things shifting. You'll create habits to make you draw more often and think more reflectively, and use action prompts to help make those thoughts become reality. ​

In the first session you'll receive your own deck of Art Life Journalling Prompt Cards and meet the small group of six. I'll talk through the ways the cards will help initiate thoughts and actions as you move through the course, and share how this process benefitted me in finding my own path as an artist and teacher.

In sessions two to five you'll be guided to use the deck to fill your unique Artist Journal with inspiration, ideas and ephemera. A well as this, as a qualified Art Life Coach, inspirational teacher and fellow artist, I'll lead you through discussions and exercises based around the Wallas model of creativity to explore your particular themes and motifs, and help you discover what makes you tick as an artist. In the sixth and final session I'll support you to reflect on your journal so far and write your own Possibilities Plan as a foundation for the next steps in your artistic journey. ​​

​On completion of the six-week course, you'll be given access to my monthly Art Journal Club, a face to face meeting in Norwich, open to all my Artist Journal alumni. Your first session will be free! Art Journal Club gives artists the opportunity to build on the shared connection, reflection and gentle accountability you'll have found so inspiring during the six week course.