Where the breath
meets the brush.
Pillar Two / Create
PRACTICE
Workshops · Residencies
MATERIALS
Natural & Fine Art Media
SEASONS
Year Round
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A slow studio
Creativity as ecology, not output. A return to the hand, the eye, and the world around us.
Create is what happens when we stop optimizing and start noticing. Our workshops use breath to soften the inner critic and reconnect us with the creative process.
Working across painting, drawing, mixed media, natural pigments, inks, and found materials, we approach creativity as a practice of attention. The focus is not on producing perfect work, but on seeing more clearly, making more freely, and cultivating a deeper relationship with the world around us.
For artists between projects, designers between sprints, architects between deadlines - and for anyone whose hands have forgotten what they used to know.
No experience required. Only curiosity.
Workshops &
residencies.
— 02 / Offerings
A guided breathwork session followed by intuitive painting. No skill required. The most accessible doorway into the practice.
3 HR · MONTHLY · INDOOR
i.
Breath & Brush
$65
MATERIALS INCLUDED
Set up, breathe in, paint slowly. With travel art kits in hand, we gather outdoors to observe, sketch, and paint. Tea, a few shared treats, and the rhythms of the landscape become part of the experience.
HALF DAY · SEASONAL · OUTDOOR
ii.
Plein Air Painting
$180
MATERIALS INCLUDED
iii.
Natural Ink Making
A full-day workshop on harvesting, processing, and binding natural pigments into ink. You leave with a variety of jars and a relationship to your materials that no art-supply shop can sell you.
FULL-DAY· QUARTERLY
$240
MATERIALS INCLUDED
Water Marbling
iv.
Suminagashi-influenced marbling in spring water. Quietly hypnotic, deeply meditative. You leave with a small portfolio of one-of-a-kind sheets and/or silks.
3 HR · SEASONAL
$160
MATERIALS INCLUDED
Studio Days for Makers
v.
A quiet day held for working artists in partner gallery, gallery-adjacent, or outdoor venues - guided breath, shared meals, no agenda. Designed for people already mid-practice who need stillness, not stimulation.
FULL DAY · BY INVITATION
$280
PER STUDIO DAY
vi.
Creative Team Residencies
For design studios, architecture firms, and innovation teams: half-day to multi-day residencies blending breath, hands-on craft, and slow-thinking time. Run on-site at your space, outdoors, or at a curated partner venue.
CUSTOM· QUOTED
Bespoke
BY ENQUIRY
For artists,
designers, and
everyone else.
— For Whom
You don't need to identify as creative to belong here. You need to be willing to make something with your hands without knowing how it will turn out.
We've held workshops for visual artists, architects, agency creative directors, educators, lawyers, parents on sabbatical, children, and people who hadn't picked up a paintbrush since high school. The work doesn't care who you are or what you do.
For creative agencies and innovation teams, our residencies have become a thoughtful alternative to the conventional offsite - less presentation, more presence; less output, more attention.
"Eye-opening experience. A great gathering of good vibes and creative people. I was able to break down mental and creative blocks. Highly recommend to anyone, creative or not. It changed a lot for me, and creativity was flowing way easier."
— Eryn Thorsley, Visual Artist
Make something
without a plan.
— Begin
Browse the workshop calendar, enquire about a residency for your team, or just send us a note. The space is small and the work is patient.