Figures in Meditation -January 2024 Painting Collection and Open Call

Throughout the past year, our painting sessions have often focused on the parallels between painting and meditation.

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Figures in Meditation: January 2024 Painting Collection and Open Call

​Throughout the past year, our painting sessions have often focused on the parallels between painting and meditation. Our January collection, featuring figures in meditation, illustrates this exploration during a time when finding moments of quietness is becoming a less accessible luxury.

Both painting and meditation foster mindfulness, introspection, and present awareness, offering a mental sanctuary amidst life's challenges, a perfect start to the new year. Painting, as we have all experienced, naturally promotes deep concentration, carrying you to a meditative state with ease. The artistic process transforms small creative actions into powerful therapeutic exercises that are equally effective in blunting stress and modulating emotions, both of which will be even more vital skills in 2024. By using our brushes, we engage in a nonverbal form of dialogue that, like the therapeutic benefits of meditation, allows us to focus and tune out distractions.

This is why the unique advantage of painting over meditation lies in its innate ability to cultivate focus effortlessly without requiring formal training. Painting is a simple and effective approach to practicing mindfulness since it helps us enter a meditative state through creative expression and provides instant benefits without any pre-required knowledge. We've all experienced and witnessed it in each and every session over the course of all these years painting together.

Our January collection, "Figures in Meditation," illustrates this convergence. Each work reflects the mindfulness found in painting, portrayed through figures engaged in meditation. This collection celebrates painting as a meditative practice, rich in mental, emotional, and creative rewards, a suitable means of navigating the intricacies and inevitable catastrophes awaiting us in 2024.