Silencing the Inner Critic is a practical art coaching programme, personalised to your needs and what matters to you. 

 

I have carefully designed my approach to cover:

 

• Silencing any false beliefs such as: ‘I’m not artistic’, or ‘I’m not good enough’.

• Engaging and releasing your unrealised artistic ability, through a series of practical exercises.

• Gaining the confidence to express your authentic artistic voice.

• Encouraging conviction in your personal artistic journey. 

 

I will work side-by-side with you and sensitively guide you to:         

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• Liberate your artistic instincts.

• Challenge the need to seek external approval.

• Avoid judgement traps.

• Connect with the art of imperfection. 

 

Who is it for?

The coaching is tailored to sensitively accommodate all ages, abilities, and levels of experience. For example, those with:

 

• No artistic experience.

• Artistic experience but wishing to be freed of the constraints of internalised negative beliefs or past prescriptive training. 

• A desire to embark on an artistic journey, amateur or professional.

• A desire to simply enrich their lives.

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The coaching support is not designed to teach specific techniques or disciplines, i.e. learning to draw or use watercolour. You may already be blessed with highly skilled technical artistic abilities, or you may have no artistic experience at all, it doesn't matter.

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What will you gain from the programme?

On completing the programme, my aim is that you will be ready to begin or continue your artistic journey and produce art that matters to you without fear of judgement or criticism. 

 

My work with you concentrates on shifting your focal point for your artistic output from the nagging influence of the critic in your head to the confident voice of your authentic heart.

 

I will sensitively support you to recognise that your authenticity as an artist can only be realised when you relegate the notion of 'accomplished skill' to a subjective and useful by-product rather than the focal point of your art.

 

Of course accomplished technical skills are extremely valuable, but if we rely on them to define the integrity of our artistic output, and elevate them to the highest level of importance we inevitably stifle our authentic artistic voice - thus giving our power away to those internal or imagined criticisms which often freeze us and hold us back from doing what we feel from our hearts. 

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What exercises will the coaching sessions involve?

The programme will include practical exercises in the visual arts as the foundation of our work together. However, the principles of the programme are designed to benefit you on any artistic journey, be that writing, sculpture, ceramics, music or poetry. 

 

In each session I will guide you to carry out some practical visually-focused exercises, intended to liberate you from any doubts you may have about your innate artistic practice.

 

Each session* will be personalised to your needs and by the end of the programme you can expect to have covered the following exercises: 

 

• The art of looking, seeing, and connecting with your internal responses.

• Researching and gathering inspiration.

• Photographing and recording ideas, marks, and textures.

• Colour, light, and shadow.

• Creating textures and surfaces.

• Sketching and mark-making. 

• Painting.

• Editing, curating, and displaying your work.

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*As part of the Studio Programme either session 1 or 2 will involve walking together in a landscape.

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