2 Visionary Painting workshops
with Vera Atlantia & Kuba Ambrose
- "Painted Prayers" - 2 day workshop: sat 7th - sun 8th October 2017
- "Dream Ikons" - 3 day intensive: Fri 13th - sun 15th October 2017
We feel extremely honoured that visionary artists Kuba Ambrose and Vera Atlantia will be teaching in the Anam Cara centre for the 3rd year.
Kuba & Vera are both teachers at the Vienna Academy of Visionary Art and will guide you to paint your inner vision, working in the technique of the old masters.
VOOR DE NEDERLANDSE PAGINA: KLIK HIER
Video: About the workshop & Misch-techniek, with pictures and videos.
(A new video on the Alla Prima technique will follow soon)
Video: some short images of the weekend workshop in 2015
>>> Click here to see the photo album of the 2015 weekendworkshop.
Join us for 2 Paintingworkshops with international teachers Vera & Kuba
Learn to paint in the technique of the old masters.
Vera Atlantia and Kuba Ambrose teach painting at the Vienna Academy of Visionary Art and have been leading painting workshops in Austria, Belgium, Australia & the UK.
We are very happy that they are coming back to teach two weekend workshops at the Anam Cara Centre in October 2017.
These workshops will focus on both oil and egg tempera painting as well as the Alla Prima painting technique. Some of these techniques were taught by the Austrian painter Ernst Fuchs with whom Kuba & Vera apprenticed for some time.
Bring your inner vision to life
Besides transmitting the technical aspects of painting, Kuba & Vera also seek to integrate the sacred and devotional practices into their workshops. Through short guided meditations, mantra and prayer you are encouraged to explore the sacred aspects of your painting.
Training for beginners & advanced students.
This program is both suited for beginning and advanced painters who want to learn to work with the Alla Prima-technique or want to deepen their spiritual and technical approach of making art.
Even people with no painting experience can start working with this wonderful technique and bring life to their connection with the divine.
Workshop 1:
"PAINTED PRAYERS" - 2 day workshop
Saturday 7th - Sunday 8th October 2017
Zowel beginnende als ervaren kunstenaars zijn welkom! De cursus is Engelstalig, maar vertaling naar nederlands is mogelijk
Art can give vision to our highest longing and aspirations.
In this workshop we will discover the power of creating art with intention while exploring the many facets of oil painting.
Beginning with a guided meditation, we will connect to our visions of healing for ourselves and the world. We will work with oil paint on prepared panels to express our painted prayers.
During this workshop you will learn to works with:
"Alla prima painting" with oils on a wooden panel
- Depict your vision of the Sacred
- Harmonious composition & armature
- Preparatory drawing techniques
- How to use colour harmony and tone to bring your painting to life
- Learn the Alla Prima painting technique
- Various aspects of oil painting materials and techniques
Guided meditation & chanting mantras
It is our intention to create a sacred space which allows all to flourish in their creative expression. Chanted prayer and silent contemplation will serve to connect us in peace and unity.
No previous art experience is required - both beginners and advanced students are welcome! Translation to Dutch is possible (vertaling naar nederlands is mogelijk)
PRACTICAL INFO (to sign up, please use the form at the bottom of this page.)
- PRICE: € 250, (Course + paints, materials & 2 organic meals, drinks & snacks)
- EARLYBIRD DISCOUNT: € 230 if you sign up and pay 1 month in advance
- All materials are included, except for brushes. Please bring your own brushes. (a detailed list of what to bring will be given to you prior to the workshop)
- Workshop days are from 10 - 18 hrs and start with a guided meditation.
- DISCOUNT: if you join both workshops, you will receive a discount of 75 euro:
Total of € 520 for 5 days of training, all materials meals, snacks & drinks.
Workshop 2:
"DREAM ICONS" - 3-day Intensive
Friday 13th - Sunday 15th October 2017
Zowel beginnende als ervaren kunstenaars zijn welkom! De cursus is Engelstalig, maar vertaling naar nederlands is mogelijk
During this workshop you will be invited to create a small scale artwork working with oils on a wooden ikon panel. Participants will be guided step by step through the process, from conception to composition, drawing stage through to the final work.
Stylistically we will focus on the approach taken by artists of the northern Renaissance school with some modern day additions to the process. Participants are encouraged to use art as a tool for expressing what is deeply sacred to their heart.
During this workshop you will learn to work with:
"Alla prima painting" with tempera & oils on a wooden icon panel
- Explore the manifest sacred through art
- Learn how to prepare your wooden ikon panel
- Learn how to make great compositions & armature
- Cultivate your vision and work from inspiration
- Be guided to construct the human / divine figure
- Learn the process from sketch to underpainting stage
- Build up your underpainting with egg tempera
- How to use colour harmony and tonal balance
- Work with glazing & scumbling techniques
- Apply details with oil paint
Guided meditation & chanting mantras
It is our intention to create a sacred space which allows all to flourish in their creative expression. Chanted prayer and silent contemplation will serve to connect us in peace and unity..
No previous art experience is required - both beginners and advanced students are welcome! Translation to Dutch is possible (vertaling naar nederlands is mogelijk)
PRACTICAL INFO (to sign up, please use the form at the bottom of this page.)
- PRICE: € 345, (Course + paints, materials & 3 organic meals, drinks & snacks)
- EARLYBIRD DISCOUNT: € 320 if you sign up and pay 1 month in advance
- All materials are included, except for brushes. Please bring your own brushes. (a detailed list of what to bring will be given to you prior to the workshop)
- Workshop days are from 10 - 18 hrs and start with a guided meditation.
- DISCOUNT: if you join both workshops, you will receive a discount of 75 euro:
Total of € 520 for 5 days of training, all materials meals, snacks & drinks.
3 Open studio days with Kuba
10, 11 & 16th of October
For students of Vera & Kuba, there is the possibility to paint in the studio and continue their work during these "Open Studio-days".
Kuba will give informal teaching and personal guidance where needed.
PRACTICAL INFO (to sign up, please use the form at the bottom of this page.)
- PRICE: € 45 per day, including paints , organic meal, drinks & snacks)
- All materials are included, except for brushes. Please bring your own brushes. (a detailed list of what to bring will be given to you prior to the workshop)
- Open studio days are from 10 - 18 hrs
About Kuba & Vera
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Born in 1982 in Melbourne, Australia, Kuba Ambrose is a painter working predominately in the area of visionary/mystic art. Much of Kuba’s art is inspired by dreams and visions as well as seed passages of truth from the various major spiritual traditions. ‘My art is an attempt to unify and harmonize the seemingly opposing forces within, to arrive at a balance and stillness. The paintings are a sort of log book of my inner journeys and of the search for deeper meaning.. Often I’ll begin an artwork with a key phrase or central theme and later that is expanded upon through the play of the imagination’. Kuba studied painting at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and later travelled to Europe to study the technique of oil and egg tempera painting. Kuba lives on the outskirts of Vienna, Austria where he currently teaches at the Vienna Academy of Visionary Art. |
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The art of Vera Atlantia (Austria) reflects our intimate connection to Source and the deepening experience of spiritual awakening. Inspired equally by words and images, this Austrian-born artist has explored both art and writing as a life-long pursuit into self-inquiry, healing and the inner world of the soul. In particular, the vision journey, meditation and writing have led her into deeper dimensions of consciousness and the imagination. Painting became a source of deep inner healing for her, when personal loss revealed art as a tool for transformation. Such healing, she discovered, finds remarkable support through creative expression. These profound experiences lead her to the study of Painting Therapy at the Institut für Mal- und Gestaltungstherapie in Vienna. In 2013, Vera Atlantia has initiated a regular painting workshop called Seelenmaler (Soul Painter) in Vienna, which emphasizes art-making as a tool for self-inquiry and discovery. Vera Atlantia is currently teaching at The Vienna Academy of Visionary Art.
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Practical information & Registration
Facilitation: Kuba Ambrose & Vera Atlantia
Venue: Anam Cara centre Belgium
Location: Kuypenevijver 27 - Veerle
Language: is English (translation in Dutch is possible if there are enough requests)
Bring with you: Sketchbook for notes and drawings, pencils and brushes.
Times: All workshops days are from 10 - 18 hrs and start with a guided meditation to deepen your artistic work.
4 WORKSHOP OPTIONS:
> "PAINTED PRAYERS" - 2-day workshop
Dates: 7 - 8 October 2017 (from 10 till 18 hrs)
Contribution: 250€ , (Course + paints, materials & 2 organic meals, drinks & snacks)
Earlybird Discount: € 230 if you sign up and pay 1 month in advance
> "DREAM ICONS" - 3 day intensive
Dates: October 13 - 15 (From 10 till 18hrs)
Contribution: 345€ , (Course + paints, materials & 3 organic meals, drinks & snacks)
Earlybird Discount: € 320 if you sign up and pay 1 month in advance
> PAINTED PRAYERS + DREAM ICONS - 5 days of workshops
Dates: 7, 8, 13, 14, 15 October 2017 (From 10 till 18hrs)
Discount of 75 euro: 520 € including materials, 5 meals and drinks & snacks.
> OPEN STUDIO DAYS - with Kuba
Dates: 10, 11, 16 October 2017 (From 10 till 18hrs)
Contribution: 45€ per day, (Course + paints, materials & organic meal, drinks & snacks)
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Agenda
“My 10 day retreat with Kuba and Vera was nothing short of incredible.
Individually and united, their gentle guidance in meditation and sharing of tremendous artistic skills, nurtured and developed by the late and great Prof. Ernst Fuchs, had me feeling honoured and overjoyed to have the time, space and opportunity to reveal and be informed by my own highest potential, as the beauty, balance and clarity unfolded upon the canvas, layer by layer.
A truly moving and unforgettable experience to which one can take back into the world and share. Thank you!!!”
“Kuba Ambrose and Vera Atlantia artfully created a space for sacred works of art to emerge through each one of us, during Art In Paradise Retreat in beautiful Byron Bay Australia, October 2015.
Their teaching and the wholesome environment nurtured us all to create works of art that were of group-heart-consciousness.
Both Kuba and Vera presented as deeply compassionate, insightful and sensitive beings- wise for their age. They were adept at holding space for a group to evolve. Nicely drawing on a combination of humour and firm discipline, they guided us to complete our conceptual visions.
I experienced the joy of co-creation when the introduction group meditation by Vera inspired my conceptual vision to emerge. The closing meditation by Kuba inspired a poem relating to the same vision. The group dynamic revealed magical moments as we shared meditation circles and sang for world healing and peace.
Without a doubt, the experience was deeply transformative.”
