Time for drawing and mindfulness
Take time to relax with a mindful workshop, designed to reduce anxiety and focus on the creative process.
17 Sep 2024, 17:30 - 18:30
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Take time to relax with a mindful 1 hour drawing workshop, designed to reduce anxiety and focus on the creative process.
We will be using tea and coffee to create drawings, exploring shading, texture, and form.
You will need:
White paper (which is thicker than printer paper) or watercolour paper, non-permanent gel pen or ink fine liner, a teaspoon, small bowl of black coffee or black tea with teabag left in.
Optional extra art materials to add colour to your creations: colouring pencils, felt tips or watercolours, small brushes and water
Liz Atkin
Liz Atkin is an artist and educator. She reimagines her Compulsive Skin Picking and anxiety into drawings, photographs and performances. Liz is a mental health advocate and raises awareness for the disorder around the world. She has exhibited and taught in the UK, Europe, Australia, USA, Singapore and Japan. Her artwork and an archive of her advocacy for skin picking is held by the Wellcome Collection.
Before the Covid-19 pandemic, she gave away more than 18,000 free #CompulsiveCharcoal newspaper drawings to commuters on public transport in London, New York, San Francisco, Singapore, Cologne and more. Liz teaches art in schools, hospitals, hospices, prisons, arts venues and universities. She is an ambassador for The Big Draw, the world’s largest drawing festival, focusing on the role of creativity for health and wellbeing and her work has featured on TEDx, Women’s Hour, Women’s Health, Vice, Huffington Post, Channel News Asia and more.
How to join
This event will be hosted on Zoom. A zoom link will be emailed to you prior to the event. We do not record "Time To" events, as they are based on participation.
This is an event for RCN members only.
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Image: Liz Atkin
For any queries about this event please contact
RCN Library and Heritage Centre
rcn.library@rcn.org.uk
0345 337 3368
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