Mindful Art - Online Course - Adult Learning

• Date: 7 November - 12 December 2024
• Sessions: Thursdays: 10am - 12pm
• No. sessions: 6
• Venue: Online Courses, Nottingham
• For ages: 19+
• Group size: 5 - 15
• Cost: FREE - £42

This course will explore Art in relation to Mindfulness and Nature. You will create work inspired by emotions, ideas, and mindfully look at the world around you. The works you will produce will be experimental, with guidance from the tutor to incorporate some artistic techniques.

By the end of the course, you will have the skills to create art inspired by the world and emotions. You will have spent time enhancing your wellbeing and met others who are interested in Art and Mindfulness.

What will be covered on the course?

• Week 1: Mark Making and emotions.
• Week 2: Colours and Feelings
• Week 3: Still Life – A Mindful Look into objects
• Week 4: Portraits – Expressions and Emotions
• Week 5: Landscapes and Nature Part 1- 1 point perspective
• Week 6: Landscapes and Nature Part 2- 2-point perspective.

Resources required:-

• Paper and a Pencil is needed for week 1.
• For week 2 onwards, learners will choose their medium to experiment with.

Suggested Reading for the course :-

• The power of now: a guide to spiritual enlightenment. by Tolle, Eckhart.
• Art the Whole Story- by Stephen Farthing and Richard Cork

If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our webpage for further information https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/

To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:

• Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING, AND
• Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking. If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.

Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required). As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas:

• Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
• Greater London
• Greater Manchester
• Liverpool City Region
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
• Tees Valley
• West of England
• West Midlands
• West Yorkshire

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• By phone: 01623 677 200
• By email: [email protected]

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