Art Vocabulary for the Soul – Collaboration

The June Art Vocabulary for the Soul was amazing. I love teaching this retreat and seeing the creativity of the participants flow. The art mediums this time were watercolor, acrylic and oil, pastels and poetry.  We had people trying watercolor, oil and pastels for the first time.   I took some pictures of the retreat and…

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Rest? What is that?

Oct 25-Jan 2, 2019 at the Blue Curve Gallery, Glenrose Hospital, Edmonton

Whew! It has been a full fall with opportunities to teach, play on the worship team, assist in an Enneagram retreat and show my art. The solo art show, Birds and Flowers, at the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital went up last Thursday. The watercolor painting of the Egret Landing is one of the 19 paintings on…

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Giving Grace

Julie Drew

Has it really been so long since I wrote to you last? I had some health and home issues that apparently sapped me of some of my creative energy – more than I realized. It is disappointing to find myself without inspiration and energy. Just enough to keep me going but not more. I was…

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Fabric of Life

Art Vocabulary of the Soul Retreat: Fabric of Life

Psalm 139: 7-16Ephesians 4:11-16Eccles. 4:9-12Colossians 3:12-17 I was talking to my massage therapist recently about fascia tissue, which is like a web or net of tissue that wraps around all the muscles organs and bones in the body. The fascia holds everything together, holds the shape with tensegrity and works to protect you. When you are…

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Erika’s Response to the Art Vocabulary of the Soul Retreat

Art, Vocabulary for the Soul RetreatJune 19-21, 2015By Erika Elektra Ewen (Reprinted from the Trinity Team newsletter of Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Edmonton) In spring 2015, I picked up a brochure at Trinity Church entitled “Art Vocabulary for the Soul Retreat” which changed my life. Its contents stimulated me as the approach described was new and…

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