WOOLSHED ART STUDIO
The old Orama Woolshed has been renovated into an amazing Art Studio. This space offers creative opportunities for Artists of Faith, Artists in Residence, Guests and Friends of Orama, those coming to Orama for respite, team building, local Artists, and the Aotea community.
ARTISTS IN RESIDENCY
A place and space for Artists of Faith wanting to get away, get inspired, find some space, and be inspired by our surroundings at Orama.
2-4 week residency
Scheduled Private space in the studio available each day (worked around any bookings)
(All Artists are to pay for their own transportation to and from Orama, Great Barrier Island)
For further information please contact Jo McQuoid (Art Director) on events@orama.org.nz
“Creativity is a personal expression of the heart and as we allow ourselves to embrace and express our creativity, we can release healing and breakthrough in our own lives”
When we create something truly authentic from our own self and we can say, ‘Hey I like that’, we are affirming our own value and this has deep impact on how we view ourselves and the world around us.
Your art can become a divine conversation, where you meet with the Holy Spirit and co-labour to create, dream, release healing and experience how much He truly loves you.
MIX MEDIA WORKSHOPS
The workshops engage participants in a journey of what hope looks like for them. Using mixed media collage as a vehicle to inspire well-being; BODY, SOUL, and SPIRIT through the creative process.
These workshops are designed to encourage a positive sense of identity, self-worth and help relieve stress and anxiety, as each person creates from their own individual expression. No experience is necessary, all materials will be supplied and each participant leaves the day with a finished art piece.
Using the style of abstract expressionism, it is about the process of the creating. The development of the art comes with the journey of creating it. It’s not about what you see, but rather what you feel and it is creating from the heart.
These Creative Workshops cater to all sectors of the community.
The format of these workshops have been developed by contemporary visual artist, Froyle Davies.
These workshops will be run as One Day Art Retreats, as part of an event and/or tailored as the need arises.
“Your art can become a divine conversation, where you meet with the Holy Spirit and co-labour to create and experience how much He truly loves you.”
Art Sozo Workshops
FREEDOM - CREATIVITY - HEALING
Art Sozo enables you to connect your emotions to the heart of God and allow His healing to take place. The activity of painting helps to bypass roadblocks and allow God's truth to shine through on canvas and speak deeply into hearts. No art experience is necessary to be able to enjoy Art Sozo
The Art Sozo Workshop is a group workshop where participants are led through a series of painting activities to help them encounter the Godhead. Each activity builds upon the last to provide an atmosphere of vulnerability and safety as part of the process is sharing the art pieces with the others in their table group.
No art experience is necessary as this is encounter art and it is more about the process than the end product. During our workshops, we find many have deep breakthrough as the process of doing art bypasses logical defenses and can access areas needing healing that have not been touched before.
DURATION OF WORKSHOPS: 3 hours
COST PER PERSON: $45 (to cover art materials)
GROUP SIZE: 2 - 6 People
Art Sozo facilitator and Mix media artist - Treena Salthouse.
Treena has a passion for bringing freedom and connection to God through Art. This led her to undertake Art Sozo training from Gail Spooner the Pastoral Counselor at Bethel Transformation Center and founder of Art Sozo. Treena has run and helped facilitate a number of creative and well-being workshops throughout New Zealand and Australia and was the founder of the Beautiful Courageous You and Be You Women events that have been held in New Zealand and Australia.
THE TRANSFORMATION
Thanks to the fantastic folk at MMM and support from the Great Barrier Local Board, the old woolshed has started its transformation into a Creative Arts studio. It will be affectionately named The Woolshed Studio. We hope it will be a creative space for many Artisians of all genres for many years to come.
Can you HELP?
we still need to raise funds to complete this project - see our Give A Little Page
Would you consider giving to our Give A Little page to help us to resource the Woolshed Art Studio? This will help us to get the practical equipment; tables, chairs, easels, canvas, paper, cupboards for storage, brushes, paints, pastels, clay, etc. We are also very open to donations and gifts of equipment, in good condition and in working order.
The old woolshed is now 98.99% renovated into an amazing studio filled with natural light, soon to be an incredible cathedral of creative expression for:
Healing through Art Therapy -Programmes/workshops.
Wellbeing
Respite - Anxiety, Depression, Addictions
Orama Guests & Groups
Orama Community
Artists of faith
Artist Residency Programme
Guest Artist weekends/week sessions
Prophetic Art
Music & Song Writing/Poetry retreats
Initiatives for 2024 and beyond
Art Trails - watch this space
Programmes/Workshops we are looking at facilitating
Some of the styles and techniques that we are planning to facilitate at Orama in our Programmes and Workshop sessions:
Sketching and drawing
Acrylic Pouring
Acrylic Painting
Watercolours
Expressive arts therapy: for Trauma, Stress, Cognitive disorders, Anxiety
Visual art installation
Oils
Pastels
Collage/Mix Media
Printing
Landscapes
Portraits
Still life
School holiday art sessions for Primary, Middle School and Senior Students
Impasto (example Vincent van Gogh – using thick layers of paint)
Plein-air painting (go out into the environment using a board or easel)
Basic clay work
And many other forms, styles and techniques of art