Intuitive Painting - A Path of Free, Creative Expression

Curious about intuitive painting? Explore the magic of this creative practice. No art experience is needed. Explore your whole self.
About this Event

Using the language of painting: image, shape, and color, we’ll tap into our innate creative, intuitive wisdom. This is a powerful process for free expression which allows for deep connection with one’s whole self. Intuitive Painting is accessible to all. No art experience is needed. You won’t learn art techniques or skills, and you won’t be creating a particular art project. We invite you to throw any traditional art training or classes out the window! In this workshop you’re invited to connect with and express your truest self. This is a powerfully healing, transformative process of accessing your creativity. We believe everyone is an artist and art heals.

What to Expect:

1. Overview of the practice of Intuitive Painting

2. Painting time with individual guided support

3. Journaling with your painting

How we get started: With this practice, using the language of painting, image, shape and color, to get started, we ask ourselves:

What color and where?
What three things could happen in this painting if ANYTHING could happen?
And then we begin! If we get stuck, we trust the brush and keep painting!

We value:
Process over product
Being present to whatever shows up
Following the energy

Your Facilitator: Beth Mattsson
Beth is passionate about the healing power of art! She believes that everyone is creative, everyone is an artist and that art heals! She loves to encourage people to discover and recover their creativity. In 2013 as she was trying to recover from debilitating chronic fatigue, she discovered expressive arts and within three months was completely well! She loves to share the transformative power of expressive arts, women’s circles, and breathwork. Beth is a SoulCollage® Facilitator, Certified Creative Journal Expressive Arts Instructor, a Facilitator of Intuitive Painting, and Touch Drawing, as well as a Certified Breathwork Practitioner. Beth has led circles and workshops for women, leadership teams at nonprofit organizations, at conferences for school employees. She lives in Menlo Park with her husband and their rescue boxer dog, Bella, and recently retired from her 21-year career in public education.