Drawing As Meditation
with Janet Trierweiler
Dates: Tuesday–Friday, July 16–19, 2024, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Tuition: $210
Four-day workshops do not include lunch. A four-day lunch plan is available for an additional $75. Please select this option when registering if you wish to join us for lunch each day at 1 p.m.
This workshop provides students with a chance to practice drawing techniques that slow down the art-making process, resulting in a peaceful and healing experience. Use intuition and inspiration from Ox-Bow’s landscape to connect to natural, creative forces. Through meditative practices, we will engage all of our senses to enjoy calming, observational, and imaginative drawing. Learn to use tone and color to create serene and joyful moods with water soluble materials on watercolor paper. Students will be required to bring their own materials; a material list will be provided in advance.
Janet enjoys creating gestural abstract paintings. Her focus is on the sensual nature of art and the healing aspect of beauty. “Like the meeting point of mind and body, experienced through yoga and the Chakra system, artistic composition can be felt both physically and through conscious response.” This interest in the full spectrum of human experience, from primal instincts to highest consciousness led to her studies of Eastern art and healing, becoming a Reiki Master through the Usui Shiki Ryoho System of Natural Healing and Certified Feng Shui Designer at the New York Institute of Art and Design. Janet says, the acceptance of paradox has been one of the most healing lessons of her life. Her process reflects this attitude. It is both fluid and structural, organic and geometric. Janet is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she received her BFA in Studio Art, she teaches drawing and painting, currently online, and leads workshops on Drawing as Meditation as well as other topics. Collectors include Northwestern University, the Illinois Institute of Art, Frank Thomas and Fifield Companies.
Janet Trierweiler, Behavior, 2024, oil on canvas, 32 x32 inches. Images courtesy of the artist.