Art for Relaxation and Wellbeing
Starts 23 Sept 2025 | 5 weeks | Evenings
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Tutor - Helen Jones
Tuesdays, 6pm-8.30pm | 5 weeks
Starts Tuesday 23 September 2025
Focus on process over outcome, as you develop sustainable creative habits and personal relaxation tools. Participants will experiment with gesture drawing, breath-synchronized marks, and flowing lines. Other sessions will focus on creating meditative patterns and rhythmic marks in the creation of nature-inspired drawings. Explore how repetitive mark-making can promote relaxation and focus, as participants create their own symbolic visual language.
The final session brings together techniques and approaches explored throughout the course. Participants will create a personal 'toolkit' of preferred materials and methods to support their ongoing creative practice. We'll explore ways to maintain a regular drawing practice at home and discuss how to continue engaging with art for wellbeing. The session includes creating a final piece that incorporates favourite elements from previous weeks.
All materials provided, though you are welcome to bring along some inspiration imagery. Please wear clothes suitable for a studio environment and bring a bag or portfolio suitable for taking work home with you after the sessions.
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Participants must be 18 or over.
If eligible, discounts must be applied when first purchasing your class and cannot be given retrospectively. Please contact us if the discount code is not working.
If you have a disability, learning difficulty or mental health issue which you feel may affect your participation in your chosen class, please either email drawingschool@rwa.org.uk or call 07745694563, prior to booking, so we are aware of any needs you may have.
Refund/transfer and Cancellation Policy: We are unable to offer full or part cash refunds, but you are eligible for an RWA gift voucher or transfer, minus an admin fee*, provided you notify us more than 14 days before the start of your class with us. If we cancel a course or workshop for any reason, then participants will be offered a different date, course/workshop or RWA gift voucher.
*Admin fee for courses £25, Admin fee for workshops £15
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