Develop Your Artistic Voice: expand your personal artistic development!

 

What do you have to say as an artist, what is your message, how can you find it, and express it artistically? This is an intensive week in which you will learn how to visualize your narrative, where to find inspiration inside and what the tools are for inspired art-making. In this workshop you will learn how to develop your artistic voice: that unique and recognizable artistic style each artist has. It is your personal visual language where your beliefs, your life philosophy, and your self-identity are interwoven with the art you make. By developing your artistic voice, your personal artistic development will expand!

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Develop Your Artistic Voice uses a working method, inspired by holistic art education, that will assist you in the process of visualizing your inner world. It is called  Activating the Inner World:  by diving inside yourself, the world of reflection, imagination, emotion and intuition, you will find your own core: that specific word, image, feeling, memory or dream that is your unique experience. This workshop will help you years from now to continue and explore your personal artistic trail.

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In this workshop you will learn where to find those ideas, images, and feelings that are most meaningful to you and that will be pivotal in developing your personal artistic voice. This is related to who you are, what is important to you and what you feel passionate about, writing about it, and visualizing it in your art! 

 

You will learn how you can travel around in your inner world; the world of your thoughts and imagination, by surfing on your “Inner-Net”. How does that work? Well, it works just like the regular Internet, but you have to work from your imagination! By using this unique tool to unlock your imagination, you can discover your personal world of images and their related feelings, memories, dreams, metaphors, and colors. You will realize how precious, rich, and valuable your own life experiences are as material for inspired personal works of art, made with your own ideas and images.

 

During this workshop you will learn and practice three techniques to find and develop your personal artistic voice: self-reflective thinking, surfing on your inner-net and visualization of words.

 

Through self-inquiry, asking self-reflective questions, and researching the answers in writing, as a kind of inner dialogue, you can explore a personal issue, find related images, and work out ideas for your artwork. We will look at how you can start a dialogue with yourself and how you can start to explore your own inner world and find interesting personal subject matter you could use for art making. The key to developing artistic voice lies in imaginative thinking—the ability to generate images. You will learn how to find images behind words, but also how to find images behind feelings.

 

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Collage (11 - 18 July 2026)

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During the Develop Your Artistic Voice Collage workshop students will be given assistance in discovering their own artistic cosmos and reconnecting with their inspiration. In this workshop you will discover a great diversity of different collage techniques and skills. We will research the various ways collage artists applied various collage and photo montage techniques, using slide-shows with their work.  This workshop will offer:

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• Introduction to the basics of collage and photo montage.

• Creating composited images from found, taken, and scanned images.

• Practicing how to make the disparate elements meld seamlessly to create a sense of magic realism.

• Going back home with several of your own dream collages or photo montages.

 

 Develop You Artistic Voice using Collage is a workshop that will expand your artistic ability and your personal development as an artist. You will discover the riches of your own life experiences as sources of inspired art-making. 

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Mixed Media  (18 - 25 July 2026)

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During the Develop Your Artistic Voice Mixed Media workshop students will be given assistance in discovering their own artistic cosmos and reconnecting with their inspiration. In this workshop you will discover a great diversity of different mixed media techniques and skills. We will research the various ways mixed media artists have developed their techniques with the help of slide-show featuring their artwork. This workshop will offer:

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• Introduction to the basics of mixed media

• Creating artwork using a great variety of media: collage, paint, and applying diverse materials using wood-glue.

• Learning the techniques of making an engaging composition working with textures.

• Going back home with your own mixed media artworks, that express your newly developed artistic voice!

 

 Develop You Artistic Voice using Mixed Media will inspire your artistic ability and expand your personal development as an artist. You will discover the riches of your own life experiences as sources of inspired art-making. 

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All Mediums  (19 - 26 September 2026)

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During the Develop Your Artistic Voice All Mediums workshop students will be given assistance in discovering their own artistic cosmos and reconnecting with their inspiration. In this workshop we will research how you can expand your vision and techniques using the medium of your choice, whether painting, collage, mixed media, writing, or working in 3D to further develop your artistic voice, your personal visual language. We will research the ways various artists developed their artistic voice during their life  with the help of slide-show featuring their artwork in a great variety of mediums. This workshop will offer:

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• From inspiration to finished artwork: we will focus on message, narrative and execution of an idea

• Art-making techniques in various mediums (including collage, mixed media, and painting), explaining how to be mindful of the basic elements: focus, composition, contrast, engagement, tension.

• Interpretation and application of historical exemplars and concepts to your own studio practice.

• Going back home with new compositions and ideas, that express your newly developed artistic voice!

 

 Develop You Artistic Voice using All Mediums will inspire your artistic ability and expand your personal development as an artist. You will discover the riches of your own life experiences as sources of inspired art-making. 

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"I had the most wonderful experience with you last year. I will never forget your kindness and generosity. You are one of the most supportive and brilliant teachers that I have ever encountered. Hopefully, one day I will be able to return to your magical kingdom." L.L. (artist)

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"Annette gave just the right amount of history, theory, instruction of technique and most importantly the freedom and independence that encouraged and enabled us all to explore our own imagination and discover our OWN creative practice." V.M (writer)

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