Get down and dirty with your creativity
Want to spark creativity in your artmaking while moving your body? Join a workshop devoted to regenerating the beginner’s mind.
Using yoga mats as our canvas, we’ll explore drawing from the inside, out. Combining gesture drawing and gentle movement, we will slather our mats with vibrant chalk drawings inspired by nature, music, and our senses. The workshop flows from drawing into an all levels, accessible flowing movement practice in which our drawings are transferred onto our bodies in an act of delicious non-attachment and joyful destruction.
Mats and chalk are available for up to 12 participants at a time.
HI. I'M ANDREA PALFRAMAN.
I am an artist, designer, and communications octopus. When I was completing my yoga teacher training in Nicaragua in 2014, I lost my mat in transit and had to buy a new, jet black mat. I'd brought my chalk pastels along on the trip, and one morning in search of an outlet for my bursting brain I realized I could draw with pastels right on my mat.... the vibrant colours of the pastels stood out so well against the black background. It was like playing Creator, pulling out elements from the vaccuum of space.
From that moment on, every morning I'd meditate and make a new drawing, then proceed to do yoga on the mat, ruining the drawing (and getting covered in chalk). It's a great way to process emotion, let go of attachment to how art's going to 'look' and get into the spirit of drawing... from the inside out.
This workshop is happening in spring/summer 2025. Email me to find out more.
