WordPainting is a total creative journey involving journaling, painting, calligraphy, poetry and feeling. Advanced calligraphic or graphic training is not required! The most important qualifications are curiosity and courage: the willingness to compose, write and paint simultaneously. Emphasis will be placed on improvising the painted surface as opposed to formal layout and design: composing with your own stream of words for text as opposed to working with prewritten texts. WordPainting helps you enter your own landscape of personal issues through a series of exercises that help free you from traditional design solutions and listen to your own poetic voice. WordPainting requires a minimum of 2.5 days; the half day can be a Friday afternoon or evening session before the weekend. A short pre-writing or journaling assignment will be given prior to the class.

WordPainting on the Ocean is a retreat I have been conducting every spring in my own town of Fernandina Beach on Amelia Island, Florida... five nights and four days of total immersion in WordPainting; a retreat for four to six participants. For fees and details, please contact me.

For information about this year's workshop, click here.