The Oak Studio - start date 30th September 2010
 The Oak Studio provides Art for Creativity and Wellbeing under the umbrella of Tobias School of Art and Therapy. It offers a unique opportunity for individuals facing health challenges, both physical and mental, to work with art in a supportive environment.
Why Oak Studio?
The oak has great inner strength; it is a symbol of individuality and provides shelter and food for many living creatures. It can stand independently and has endurance in all kinds of weather. Such a great oak greets you at the entrance to Tobias.
What do we offer?
We offer creative opportunities through experience and exploration. We encourage the development of art skills as well as experiential understanding and knowledge of various art processes - painting, drawing and sculpture.
Art themes will include:
- qualities of colour and form to understand harmony, balance, proportion and rhythm
- the cycles and rhythms of nature to become enlivened and find an inner connection with your surroundings
- art history
- fairy tales, myths, legends, poems
The structured workshop programme will have flexibility to cater for individual needs and wishes.
How may you benefit?
Working with art processes can help improve self-confidence, give inner grounding and let you discover a new harmony, balance and joy within yourself. Through your awakened creativity a new world of wonder and beauty can become yours, alongside feelings of wellness, integration and wholeness. The supportive, social environment can help you strengthen your individual resources, and find inner nourishment and warmth. All this can lead to a more purposeful and better quality of life.
Time and Cost
The programme takes place on Thursdays each week. Each term of 10 weeks will be built on the previous term. It is also possible to take each term separately.
Daily Rhythm:
9.30am – 1.00pm art session, includes 30 minutes break for tea/coffee and socialising.
1.00pm – 2.00pm lunch break.
2.00pm - 4.30pm art session, includes 15 minutes break.
Cost: £550.00 per term includes materials and refreshment (lunch is not included)
No previous experience is needed.
Who are we?
Maria Albiez SRATh, Dip. Artistic Therapy, CAHSC Registered. is a sculptor and art therapist who for the last 16 years has worked in clinics, with private clients, adults and children, and with special needs adults.
Inge Tombs, Dip. Artistic Therapy, CAHSC Registered. has worked within community arts, teaching painting and sculpture to a range of community groups. She has also worked therapeutically with art in private practice and clinics over the past 18 years.
Dwelling in silence on the beauties of life
Gives the soul strength of feeling
Thinking clearly on the truths of existence
Brings to the spirit the light of will
Rudolf Steiner
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