Joanna Bodzek is an artist and educator.
Graduating with a masters from Central Saint Martins /London and Beckmans College of Design/ Stockholm, Bodzek works on the intersection between fashion and art.In her work Bodzek researches cross cultural issues and home related emotional states as well as the symbolism of colour and its impact on the human body and mind.
This research has resulted in a series of conceptual projects and experiments developed through means of fashion design, installations, painting and photography.
Recently Bodzek has been investigating the relation between the "act of making art" and the increase in mental health and overall well-being from the philosophical, psychological and emotional point of view.
This painting-meditation is pretty much like any meditation yet totally different!...
DAM is the experience of arts ability to transform our emotional states and so too our lives through creating.
-It draws from ideas and exercises by artists like Kandinsky and Yves Klein, among others,
-modern Neuropsychological findings reg. improved of the brain functions seen while engaging in art making, is inspired from "Vedic Principles for Art and life"
DAM would be one and the same every day, with changes of focus each day depending on space and the group, not by any means a problem to participate for same person each day, like in the meditation, one just goes deeper in to painting.
The participants are guided through visualisation of beautiful inner landscapes this open them to painting from inside out and gain many insides in the process and it is not too deep.
What you will learn:
-During this meditation you will experience what creativity really means and why it matters to you.
-you will learn how painting from your inner vision can have an impact on your real-life experience.
-you will get the tools for starting a dialogue with yourself, on canvas, with questions asked and answers painted.
-you will get an insight to how creativity and mindfulness can be used to release tension stress as well as to reduce creative blocks.
-you will experience a correlation between drawing a line and the mental process related to decision making.
-you will learn a practical strategy to silence your inner critic while creating.
Explore your expressive side
In this workshop you are the creator of your own reality. You will be guided to the imaginary world of your inner reality. By accessing the inner world with help of your imagination you are not only opening a gate to a new realm of inspiration that is completely yours, but you will also learn how your canvas can answer the questions that you ask. You will be gently guided to a visualisation and then to create one or more abstract painting in order to record your inner visions and symbols with paintbrushes, infusing them with all of the shapes in your inner Landscape and with all the beautiful colours of your future. We are all beginners here. Every time. There will be no critiques, analysis, or judgment of the creative work, or any focus on the finished product, but individual attention and gentle guidance "mindfulness of art like activity".
These workshops can be compared to a creative-meditation where only the process counts. They are about a creative force and their transforming effect on the practitioner, a conversation with oneself by the means of lines, colours and brushes.
In this workshop it is okay to do or not to go away when you need and OK to take everything at your own pace. These workshops have been designed specifically to fit a restless brain.
DAM promises an experience of calm but powerful moments during a mindful, guided art making
