Painting Your Visions: An Exploration of Abstract Painting
What happens when you stop trying to paint what you see—and begin painting what you feel, imagine, remember, or envision?
Painting Your Visions is an exploration of abstract painting and the many ways abstraction can help us communicate ideas, emotions, sensations, and experiences that don’t always have a literal image.
Through a look at both contemporary and historical abstract painters, we’ll explore different approaches to colour, composition, gesture, texture, shape, and mark-making. These artists will serve as jumping-off points for our own creative investigations, giving us ideas to experiment with rather than rules to follow.
Working primarily through hands-on exploration, you’ll be encouraged to develop your own visual language and discover what happens when intuition begins to guide the painting. Some sessions may begin with an idea, image, memory, or sensation; others may simply begin with a colour, a mark, or a blank canvas.
The class is open to acrylic, oil, and/or watercolour, and you are welcome to work on a larger scale when space and materials allow. No previous experience with abstract painting is required—just a willingness to experiment, play, and see where the painting takes you.
Saturdays | 10:00 AM–1:00 PM
January 16 – February 20, 2027.
Online via Zoom
Ages 18+
All experience levels welcome
