It’s the month of awakening on the blog, and this is the final creative post for it!

I thought it would be rather fitting to leave a reflection on my first informal workshop as the final creative post this month.

As I’ve mentioned in a few posts, I’ve been working on developing some informal workshops that are centred on building community through creativity. I’m in the last few stages of making them a reality and should hopefully be brining them to Kirkby-in-Ashfield soon.

As I mentioned earlier this week, I was off celebrating the Spring Equinox last week. As part of the celebrations, I decided to take some art supplies with me and invite people to join me in some painting in the centre of the stone circle.

Although it was mostly my friends who joined me, I did have some positive feedback from the other celebrants there, saying that they’d been admiring our work. I’m rather chuffed with the paintings we came up with, although I am missing a few of them!

Personally, I found it to be a really peaceful activity – just sitting in the sunshine and taking inspiration from the beauty around us. But also having the presence of other people was nice.

I always engage in this kind of activity, but I usually do it alone. It was nice to be surrounded by other people for a change.

One of my friends mentioned that they never really spend time painting because they worry that they’re not good. They avoid classes because they can feel like a competition. But he mentioned that it was nice that we weren’t trying to create anything in particular, we weren’t trying to emulate another person’s style and getting annoyed with ourselves over it. We were just simply creating and experimenting and enjoying doing something for the sake of it.

It’s something I’ve talked about in a lot of my creativity posts, but I think it’s an especially important theme to revisit for this month. For me, art has been something that has awakened my child-like sense of wonder again. And it seems like the first trial of my workshops has managed to do the same for other people.

I’m really looking forward to making these a regular thing that can awaken that sense of wonder in others.

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