My dream is becoming true! I will be mentoring a self portrait workshop later in the autumn!
This workshop is for people with mental issues, or other kind of need to work through their feelings and emotions through art. As an artist, I find self portraits a great way to reflect on personal issues and work towards better mental health. Expressing one’s difficulties through art is very very instructive. And what would be better for this, than self portraits?
So the idea of the workshop is to sit down and create a self portrait. First there will be a small art task to get everybody inspired, and then we’ll start with the self portraits. I will be there giving help with the artistic stuff. Then when everybody’s self portraits are ready, we talk about them and how they made people feel. How it felt to create such a thing.
The idea of the workshop is peer support, we are not going to heal anybody. But give tools for people and encourage to expressing emotions through art and self portraits.
Would you be interested in such workshop? It is free of charge, if that is a issue.
What would you like to get from a such workshop? Why would you want to attend?
I would be very happy for any feedback. I am super nervous about instructing this workshop but at the same time I’m so excited! I have been planning for this for years. This workshop is held under a local mental health society. The workshop itself is one day thing and I would be so happy to have 5-8 people attending.
Here’s a picture of a painting I’m currently working on, so this post wouldn’t be just text!
