Introduction to Neurographic Art with Heather McEwan

Promo
No particular artistic ability is required; come and try something different and gentle.

What is Neurographic Art?
Neurographic art begins with a line, but it isn't really about the line. It is about following a process, noticing what emerges, and responding with one small choice after another. There are no mistakes to erase—only invitations to adapt. The finished artwork is unique, but the real gift is the process itself: a chance to slow down, create, and see differently.

Created by Russian psychologist Pavel Piskarev, neurographic art grew from an interest in the connection between drawing, thinking, and wellbeing. Although it isn't a clinical therapy, many find the process calming and restorative.

Longer description
This workshop will be a quiet (though not completely silent) space, allowing everyone to settle into their own creative process.

No artistic experience is needed—just a willingness to follow the process and discover what emerges. Everyone will leave with a unique artwork and, hopefully, a renewed sense of calm and creative possibility.

All materials will be provided.

What you do need to bring:
Please bring your phone with paired earphones and have a playlist of gentle, peaceful music ready to go. Choose music that you find calming and restorative, with at least 20 minutes of uninterrupted listening.

Limit of 10 participants

Bio
Heather McEwan is a maker working across clay, paint, words and meditative expression—which involves noticing, and plaiting thoughts into forms, and further, a quiet spiritual practice of plaiting Words of Life into her own life.

As mother, Daughter, daughter (not a typo) and friend, these ways of being - are not separate from her art work but shape its pace, attention and tangible results.

Her practice often begins with “ oh!!! I wonder what would happen if…?” and continues on through play, interruptions, adapting, and returning - building from mistakes, sometimes turning them into features. She works by doing: trying, failing, adapting, reconsidering , sometimes abandoning but usually keeping on going.

The “StudioShed” is a sanctuary where her experience of time shifts. Frustration sometimes visits, and is both a part of the process and a larger metaphor when her efforts feel too small to express all that’s in her heart.

Pallet knife and oil paint, acrylics, ink and pen, clay and glaze and words.

Please Note:

Parking

Holdsworth Street ( 2 hour Parking)

Car Park at 1 Perry Street Pay via the EasyPay app: $2.50/hr

For those with mobility needs, there is limited parking available in the church car park. Please give us a call so we can do our best to accommodate your requirements. While we will always try to assist, we don’t always have control over the availability of these spots.