About
This course is about you and your artistic journey. It’s about learning how to unblock your creative potential in a safe and welcoming space.
It is my honour to share The Artist’s Way coursework with you, and to provide gentle guidance for your journey toward artistic re-discovery.
About You
Whether you are beginning, rediscovering, or responsibly sustaining a creative practice, you are looking for guidance, tools and resources to help you grow.
You have decided to commit to making a change in your life but know you will need inspiration and encouragement to see it through.
You long for artistic self-worth as a maker or performer but your goals seem indistinct or unreachable.
You want to channel wishes, desires and dreams into meaningful connections and accomplishments.
About The Artist’s Way
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron is a transformative guide designed to help anyone reconnect with their creativity. With its 12-week course, Cameron offers powerful tools like Morning Pages (a daily writing practice) and Artist Dates (weekly creative excursions) to break through self-doubt and creative blocks.
Praised by major publications like The Guardian and The New York Times, the book is celebrated for its ability to inspire personal growth and unlock artistic potential. Whether you’re a student or anyone looking to expand their creative horizons, The Artist’s Way provides a supportive, structured approach to nurturing creativity and building confidence in your artistic journey.
Click here to purchase or download your copy of The Artist’s Way.
About Me
I am an award-winning studio artist as well as a teacher, poet, and arts journalist. I have written for regional, national, and international audiences, and received accolades for my contributions as a public lecturer and TedX speaker. I have taught art, art history, art theory and writing at several schools and universities, and I am is one of the founding faculty of the Vancouver Island School of Art. I have devoted over twenty years to working with students from all over the world in live and online classrooms, and am excited to work with you on the core concern of any artistic practice: creative identity.
For most of my twenty-one years of teaching, I’ve worked with students who were relative beginners: young children, high school students, university undergraduates, and adults starting over (or just getting started) in mid-life or late-in-life. This has provided a delight as fundamental as opening up fresh art supplies, or trying out a new experiment in the studio… Stimulating and renewing, it never gets old.
Like all artists, writers and performers, I’ve sometimes found myself confronting blocks and obstacles, being no stranger to the process of cultivating a creative voice while devoting time to work and family. If setting these kinds of boundaries has been a challenge for you, creative mentoring can serve to (re)introduce you to navigating essentials of inspiration, discipline, flow and flux. We will be using Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way (a book I first met thirty years ago) as a framework, working to take on the doubt, discovery, research, dreaming, and rigor involved in the creative life. I look forward to sharing this with you!
Curious about my art and publications? Visit my Art and Writing Website.
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