Telling the Difference: The Oral Art of Telling
2022-05-21 15:00 - 2022-07-30 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
The Oral Art of Telling Myths, Legends & Saga, Parables Fables, & Folktales – An Online Course

Presenter: Iris Curteis
All stories empower us to re-organise our thinking, re-interpret our experiences & act with integrity & a greater sense of our humanity. Myths, Legends, Sagas, Parables, Fables, & Folktales have different relationships to what we could call the sacred-spiritual, different social functions, & create different ways of working with individuals & in communities.
This six-part online, interactive course is about building your skills as a storyteller. If you use storytelling in child or adult education, parenting, community building, social justice, caregiving, inclusivity & diversity this course offers a practical introduction to the importance of ‘liminal space’, story openings & closings, & an experience of the different forms of Story, why we need them, how they work & how they need to be told.

Dates
21/05, 04/06, 18/06, 02/07, 16/07, 30/07
Session times: 3:00 p.m – 5:00 p.m
Cost
The individual sessions $70, seminar $400 (includes course material and zoom check-ins)
Bookings & inquiries: Iris Curteis or ring 0487 719 476
Flyer here
About Iris Curteis
Iris Curteis is an accomplished storyteller; her background includes visual art, speech formation and dramatic art (Europe), B.A. and B.A. hon. (creative writing), Ph.D. Storytelling and Community building (Australia). She has been working out of Anthroposophy for over 40 years.

A Winter weekend arts retreat with Fiona Campbell
2022-06-03 - 2022-06-05 | Linuwel School, 133 Morpeth Road, Linuwel, NSW
This event has been postponed.

The Parsifal Project: a community arts project
2022-06-13 - 2025-05-04 | Living Arts Centre, Mt Barker School, 27 Sims Road, Mount Barker, SA, 5251
The Parsifal Project

The Parsifal Project is a community project that aspires towards a contemporary envisioning of the famous medieval legend, one that recontextualises the Parsifal legend for a modern multicultural audience.
What is it about?
Writers, poets, philosophers and artists tell us that myths and legends hold spiritual insights into the sacred wisdom of past cultures, but what about the spiritual insights we need to navigate our current world? Drawing on the cultural heritages we bring with us, the Parsifal Project seeks find meaningful resonance between this medieval myth and contemporary intergenerational audiences.
Using the talents of a diverse cast and a script written by playwright Peter Oswald, the project aims to make a significant contribution to our understanding of the Parsifal legend in light of Anthroposophy, as a cosmopolitan Michaelic impulse and as a metaphor for modern human development. The story is our future; if so, its mythic themes could be critical to today’s youth, to all of us.
Whether your interest is in the spiritual foundations of the legend, the literature, creative writing or performing, there is something here for anyone and everyone fascinated by the whole collection of Grail legends and its interpretations, medieval or modern, book or film.
Timeline for the project
The project has five stages highlighting different arts and media:

June – July 2022: Parsifal Unpacked
Completed. Explored the original story through performance, literary text and thematic discussion.
September – November 2022: Parsifal Reimagined
Completed. A series of writing workshops where we reimagine the story through the lens of current cultural perspectives.
January 2023 – November 2023 : Parsifal Rescripted
Ongoing script development in conjunction with performance-based creative development intensives with on-the-floor exploration on the themes explored in Stages 1 and 2.
February 2024 – February 2025: Parsifal Reinterpreted
Auditions, eurythmy and music workshops from February. Rehearsals begin in April 2024, using the script based on Parsifal Rescripted.
April -May 2025: The Parsifal Project performance
Saturday 26 April at 5.30 pm ACST
Saturday 3rd May at at 5.30 pm ACST
Sunday 4th May at 2.30 pm ACST
Venue: Living Arts Centre, Mount Barker Waldorf School, Mt Barker, SA

Project Director: Jo-anne Sarre, Artistic Director of Ink Pots Arts
Jo-anne Sarre has worked in the performing arts sector as a freelance director, actor, storyteller, playwright and educator since her four-year Speech and Drama training at The Harkness Studio, Sydney in 1986. She has a Diploma of Teaching (Primary 1980-1982), a Diploma of Creative Speech and Drama (The Harkness Studio in conjunction with The Goetheanum School of Spiritual Science 1983-1986) and first-class Honours in Drama (Flinders University 2009). Other trainings include MICHA in the US and various Michael Chekhov practitioners in the UK and Europe (1997-2009).
Jo-anne has performed in local, national and international arenas as an independent performing artist including as a freelance storyteller, with the Aphaia Eurythmy Group (Poetry Recitation), and as an actor with Ink Pot Theatre, The Rose Theatre Company and Portal Productions UK (The Soul’s Awakening). During her career, she has trained Steiner/Waldorf teachers across Australia (Rudolf Steiner College, Sheoak College), in the UK (Emerson College), India and China. This includes supporting teachers in their own artistic development in poetry recitation, storytelling, acting and directing as well as assisting in classrooms, directing plays etc with both primary and high school students. In 2016, she was also Assistant Voice Coach at Flinders University Drama Centre with Dawn Langman.
As co-founder of Ink Pot Theatre (the professional touring company) and founding Artistic Director of Ink Pot Arts Inc (a community arts not-for-profit), she has been actively engaged in bringing high-quality theatre as a catalyst for personal transformation and community cultural development inspired by Anthroposophy.

Feature image credit: Seamus McArdle
Photo credit: Jo-anne Sarre

“Most societies have come to define themselves by their historical myths and national narratives. We are, who we say we are… People grow up believing they live within a story … what is the story we believe we are living within? Where is our narrative going? “
Prof. David Blight, 2009

Parsifal Unpacked: Stage 1 of The Parsifal Project
2022-06-13 19:30 - 2022-07-16 21:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
An Ink Pot Arts Inc initiative
Parsifal Unpacked
A series of 6 webinars
introducing the story through image and text
Course Facilitator: Fiona Campbell, with guest artists, courtesy of Ink Pots Arts

What are the myths and legends we live by? Why do the Grail legends still speak to us today? And who was Parsifal? What roles do his sister Dindrane and half-brother Feirefis? What is the significance of the people around him? What might they represent for us in modern, multicultural Australia today?
Immerse yourself in this rich introduction to the Parsifal story. Using drama and image, this online course deconstructs this sacred story using artworks and snapshot performances from the definitive literary texts and clips from modern films.
Tell me more
We unpack the interwoven storylines of four different literary texts concerning Parsifal, touching on key characters of the central Grail and Arthurian cycles.
Later, we explore the story’s spiritual, artistic and cultural traditions to elicit its modern meanings for today.
The themes elicited from this course will form the basis of the Stage 2. Parsifal Reimagined online creative writing course in August – September 2022.
This course is a prerequisite for the Stage 2 creative writing course in Spring.

Stage 1. Program

Week 1: The mythic and historic roots of the story
Week 2: The central plot of Parzival/Perceval
Week 3: The circle of characters around the hero
Week 4: The sacred symbols and artefacts of the story
Week 5: The central role of Nature and environment in the story and its spiritual significance
Week 6: Bringing it all together – how does the story speak to us today?

Source texts may include:

Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach,
Perceval le Gallois by Chrétien de Troyes
The Peredur myth
Perlesvaus (The High Book of the Grail)
Artworks from medieval manuscripts and the Pre-Raphaelites
Eric Rohmer’s Perceval le Gallois and Wagner’s Parsifal

How much does it cost?
$200 full course or $160 for students (proof/documentation required)
Where do I register?
Bookings: You can register here
Flyer: Look here and share!
For more information: please contact Jo-anne Sarre

This course is Stage 1 of The Parsifal Project, a year-long multimedia community project.
For more information about the whole project, please look here.

About the facilitator and artists
Fiona Campbell
Fiona Campbell is a visual artist, researcher, lecturer and arts educator. She has an interdisciplinary PhD on creativity and cognition and has been a professional artist, writer and arts educator for 30 years.
She is a member of the Stream of Life Research Studio which explores the phenomenological nature and spirituality in human life; she also teaches research training, cultural and consciousness studies in higher education.
Fiona trained in visual arts at Tobias School of Art, England. As well as her doctorate (UTS), she holds a BA Honours in English & Linguistics (Macquarie University), a MA in Information Science (UTS) and a diploma in Waldorf Education (Emerson College), a diverse range of studies and trainings that inform her teaching and research work. She also has specialist knowledge in Communications, Anthroposophic studies, sacred art and cultural studies, notably the Arthurian and Grail legends.
You can find out more about Fiona at Painted Space, read about her teaching work at Sydney Rudolf Steiner College or listen to an ABC Soul Search interview about her anthroposophic-inspired approach to painting.
Jo-anne Sarre
Jo-anne Sarre has worked in the performing arts sector as a freelance director, actor, storyteller, playwright and educator since her four-year Speech and Drama training at The Harkness Studio, Sydney in 1986. She has a Diploma of Teaching (Primary 1980-1982), a Diploma of Creative Speech and Drama (The Harkness Studio in conjunction with The Goetheanum School of Spiritual Science 1983-1986) and first-class Honours in Drama (Flinders University 2009). Other trainings include MICHA in the US and various Michael Chekhov practitioners in the UK and Europe (1997-2009).
Jo-anne has performed in local, national and international arenas as an independent performing artist including as a freelance storyteller, with the Aphaia Eurythmy Group (Poetry Recitation), and as an actor with Ink Pot Theatre, The Rose Theatre Company and Portal Productions UK (The Soul’s Awakening). During her career, she has trained Steiner/Waldorf teachers across Australia (Rudolf Steiner College, Sheoak College), in the UK (Emerson College), India and China. This includes supporting teachers in their own artistic development in poetry recitation, storytelling, acting and directing as well as assisting in classrooms, directing plays etc with both primary and high school students. In 2016, she was also Assistant Voice Coach at Flinders University Drama Centre with Dawn Langman.
As co-founder of Ink Pot Theatre (the professional touring company) and founding Artistic Director of Ink Pot Arts Inc (a community arts not-for-profit), she has been actively engaged in bringing high-quality theatre as a catalyst for personal transformation and community cultural development inspired by Anthroposophy.

Featured image: Ghost Rider, h. koppdelaney ©flickr
Inserted mage: The Holy Grail is carried in, Arthur Rackham
Photos: courtesy of Fiona Campbell and Jo-anne Sarre

“Most societies have come to define themselves by their historical myths and national narratives. We are, who we say we are… People grow up believing they live within a story … what is the story we believe we are living within? Where is our narrative going? “
Prof. David Blight, 2009

Working with Steiner's Seven School Sketches - further training for the artist
2022-09-02 14:00 - 2022-11-25 16:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
A masterclass studio with artist Fiona Campbell
The Seven School (or Friedwart) Sketches motifs were given to the teachers as part of Rudolf Steiner’s new impulse for understanding both Art and Nature, to help students explore objective spiritual laws, where form arises out of colour, not the reverse. The series moves from nature moods through the four elements to culminate in a Madonna and Child motif.

What are the Training Sketches?
Theses sketches are part of a comprehensive portfolio known as the Training Sketches for the Artists. The Nine Training Sketches (Nature Moods) and the Goetheanum epochs motifs form a substantial part of this portfolio.
But these sketches are not images of external natural events; they refer to acts that are effective in nature and human, says Christiane Haid, head of the Visual Arts Section and the Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities at the Goetheanum. She believes dealing with the creative forces can become the starting point for facing tasks in healing the world.
You are invited to join artist and researcher Fiona Campbell for an online masterclass (seven sessions) as she works with these motifs as culmination of a year-long project to bring Steiner’s sketches and motifs to celebrate the centenary of Steiner’s gift to visual artists of the comprehensive portfolio known as the Training Sketches for the Artists.
You don’t have to be a professional artist, or even very experienced, to enjoy this course.
A training for the configuration of the soul
They are called training sketches, but sometimes people wonder what it is they are training. They are not guides to technique, nor are they supposed to be copied literally. They are not answers to what artworks of sunrises and trees and people should look like. Rather, they are a training for the soul. What does this mean?
Through working with each sketch, the painted is lead towards an inward experience of the motif. This opens up the way to true moral and spiritual experiences. By learning to unite herself with the inner essence of these motifs, the artist can reveal through her work traces of her soul experience of the cosmos.
Historical background
In June 2022 it will have been one hundred years since the painter and sculptor Henny Geck asked Rudolf Steiner for a course that would bring about a renewal of the art of paining. Steiner gave a series of motifs to the artists in the form of rough sketches, as a foundation for the renewal of the art of painting. the foundational program for painters seeking to work out of Anthroposophy. This program is comparable to the indications he gave to the eurythmists and has been practiced in different forms in anthroposophic art trainings since Steiner first gave the Nine Training Sketches to artist Henni Geck 100 years ago.
These masterclasses are part of a worldwide movement this year to celebrate Steiner’s artistic impulse, including the Goetheanum motifs, on the centenary of the burning down of the First Goetheanum. They are also offering lectures and courses to help realise Rudolf Steiner’s vision of a new impulse in the arts and make these motifs visible to the wider public.
Who are the masterclasses for?
For artists, Steiner teachers, art therapists and art students looking to find a path in soul/spiritual development through the arts; and for anyone interested in understanding more about Rudolf Steiner’s impulse in Art.
To get the most out of this course, it is anticipated that participants work alongside Fiona in-class and on their own between sessions.
Required

familiarity with Steiner’s or Goethe’s colour theories
basic watercolour wet-on-dry skills (you can use wet-on-wet or any other painting media, such as oils or acrylics, if you prefer but technical advice is not directed towards these media)

This is not a step-by-step instructional class so not suitable for beginners.
What dates are the classes?
2-4pm AEDT Friday afternoons
2/16/30 September, 14/28 October, 11/25 November.
Session 1: Sunrise
Session 2: Sunset
Session 3: Trees in Sunny Air
Session 4: Trees in Storm
Session 5: Sunlit Tree by a Waterfall
Session 6: Head Study
Session 7: Madonna and Child
How much does it cost?
Online series: $250 for 7×2 hr masterclasses or $42 for individual sessions.
Where do I register?
Register here!
Please register online. If you are a new participant please also complete the enrolment form.
You can download the enrolment form here (payment details and a list of suggested materials and readings included). The Zoom link will sent to you a few days before class.
Edited versions of the masterclasses are recorded but live participation is preferred, unless your time zone makes this impossible.
For more information
For more information about the masterclass or for any questions, please contact Fiona Campbell
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About Fiona Campbell and her work

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Fiona Campbell is a visual artist, researcher, lecturer and arts educator. She has an interdisciplinary PhD on creativity and cognition. She has been a professional artist and arts educator for over 30 years.
She is also teaches interdisciplinary research training and consciousness studies. She is a member of the Stream of Life Research Studio, where her focus is phenomenology and creative cognition.
You can find out more about Fiona, read about her teaching work at Sydney Rudolf Steiner College (where she has taught since 1994) or listen to a recent ABC Soul Search interview with her about the anthroposophical approach to art.

‘and in the creations of the artist t here will appear to us
the traces of his soul experience in the cosmos’
(Steiner 1-4 January 1915).

Photo credit: Sunlit Tree by a Waterfall, © Fiona Campbell

Facing Our Shadow Self in the 6th Epoch
2022-10-22 16:00 - 17:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
| The Slavic Motif and Our Shadow Self |
The 2nd of 3 practice-based webinars exploring the tragedy of dualism
in the 5th epoch, 6th epoch and our cosmic future
as represented in the ceiling motifs of the first Goetheanum

‘I must not ever leave you.
You will in future often find me at your side;
I shall not go from you until you find
the power of that which you are to become.’
(The Soul’s Probation, Scene 5)

Presenter: Fiona Campbell
Our shadow self is usually seen as being our disowned self, those aspects of our selves we don’t or won’t accept. This shadow is also a development of our innate dualistic nature. So, how can we grapple with this? In the motifs that filled the ceiling of the first Goetheanum, we find some answers.
This is the 2nd webinar in the The Great Luciferic/Ahrimanic face-off . But you don’t have to have attended previous webinars to enjoy the presentation and discussion.

Tell me more …
We use the motif (pictured above) representing the 6th epoch, still far in our future, to understand the nature of our double or shadow as a picture of dualism in our souls.

What really is this shadow?
How will we experience it?
Do all beings have a shadow, even angels?
And how does this affect our future evolution and spiritual development?

We explore these questions through study, discussion, contemplation and a little sketching of the motif.

Who are the webinars for?
For anyone interested in Steiner’s approach to the spiritual evolution of humanity.
You do not need to have attended any previous webinars in this series nor do you need drawing skills to enjoy these workshops: the focus is on the experiencing the content through doing, not learning drawing techniques.
When are they on?
Saturday afternoon 4.00-5.30pm AEST
Webinar workshops: 22 October | 26 November
Each session will be recorded and a video of the event will be available post-webinar.
A list of suggested drawing materials and background readings is also included in the cost.
How much does it cost?
Online series: | $60 for 2 webinars | $35 per webinar | Concessions available on request – please contact Fiona.
Video recording included in the cost
Where do I book?
Book here!
After booking, I will send you a confirmation email containing the zoom link to join the meeting.
Then download the payment details, materials list and suggested readings.
For more information
Please contact Fiona Campbell

Background notes
What exactly is dualism?
The term ‘dualism’ has various characterisations in different cultures and time periods. But in general, it means there are two fundamental kinds or categories of things or principles. In theology, for example, a dualistic principle is Good and Evil or God and the Devil as independent yet equal forces in the world. Light and Darkness is another example of dualism common to most cultures.
According to Rudolf Steiner, dualism in our human evolution is expressed through two opposing yet interdependent entities called Lucifer and Ahriman. Both these names can be found in the Bible and in Zoroastrianism as mighty beings, like fallen angels. But today they are experienced in our soul life as polar-opposite forces that we unconsciously swing between, like a pendulum. The first webinar in this series, The Great Luciferic/Ahrimanic Face-off, explored their influence in our daily lives in some depth. A video of this webinar is available on request.
This webinar considers how this split might evolve into a separate shadow self.
About the first Goetheanum
2022 marks the centenary of the burning of the first Goetheanum on New Year’s Eve in 1922/23. As part of the 100th anniversary of the fire, artists and members of the Anthroposophical Society around the world have been working with the forms and motifs of the 1st Goetheanum. These three webinars are part of this world-wide activity.
For the ceiling of the first Goetheanum, Steiner gave a series of ‘epoch’ motifs to the artists – 12 sketches for the large cupola of the 1st Goetheanum and 7 Sketches for the small cupola. These motifs map the spiritual history of humanity and were intended to support a training in karmic vision through Art.
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Photo credits: from The Language of Color in the First Goetheanum by Hilde Raske

The IAO Motif and the Foundation Stone Meditation
2022-11-26 16:00 - 17:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
The IAO: the Cosmic Image of the Human Being
and the Foundation Stone Meditation
The final webinar of 3 practice-based workshops exploring key challenges of 5th epoch, 6th epoch
and our cosmic future as represented in the ceiling motifs of the first Goetheanum

Presenter: Fiona Campbell
This is the 3rd and final webinar in the The Great Luciferic/Ahrimanic face-off exploring the ceiling motifs of the first Goetheanum, as a transformative picture of the spiritual history of humanity. They raise questions about their relevance to today and how they could guide our future development. Each motif embodies a soul stage of human development as we traverse our starry and earthly path as individuals and as humanity as a whole.
Tell me more
The tragedy of dualism in our souls, and how it manifests has been the leitmotif of this series. In this final workshop, we contemplate how the path from the IOA as cosmic word resounding from the beginning of time to the IAO, the cosmic image of the human being, is a picture and a guide as to how to grapple with our innately dualistic natures.
In this presentation, we explore these theme through discussion, contemplation and a little sketching of the motif.
Who are the webinars for?
For anyone interested in Steiner’s approach to the spiritual evolution of humanity.
But you don’t have to have attended previous webinars to enjoy the presentation and discussion.
When is it on?
Saturday afternoon 4.00-5.30pm AEDT
Webinar workshops: 26 November
Each session will be recorded and a video of the event will be available post-webinar.
A list of suggested drawing materials and background readings is also included in the cost.
How much does it cost?
Online series: $35 | Concessions available on request – please contact Fiona.
Video recording included in the cost
Where do I book?
Book here!
After booking, I will send you a confirmation email containing the zoom link to join the meeting.
Then download the payment details and materials list.
For more information
Please contact Fiona Campbell

Background reading
The Foundation Stone Meditation GA 260
Background notes
About the first Goetheanum
2022 marks the centenary of the burning of the first Goetheanum on New Year’s Eve in 1922/23. As part of the 100th anniversary of the fire, artists and members of the Anthroposophical Society around the world have been working with the forms and motifs of the 1st Goetheanum. These three webinars are part of this world-wide activity.
For the ceiling of the first Goetheanum, Steiner gave a series of ‘epoch’ motifs to the artists – 12 sketches for the large cupola of the 1st Goetheanum and 7 Sketches for the small cupola. These motifs map the spiritual history of humanity and were intended to support a training in karmic vision through Art.
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Photo credits: from The Language of Color in the First Goetheanum by Hilde Raske

‘In the beginning was the Word’
“Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us’

Complementaries and Counter Images: Working with Steiner's How to Know Higher Worlds through Art
2023-02-10 14:00 - 2023-05-19 16:00 (Australia/Sydney)
A masterclass studio
with Fiona Campbell

Imaginative exercises based on meditative exercises given by Steiner in How to Know Higher Worlds using colour, archetypal processes, observation and contemplation
This 7-session course provides an artistic entry into his preparatory exercises of inner and outer observation, contemplation and moral development. It aims to nourishes creativity and feeds the soul life.
Through exploration of the complementaries and counter-colours, we can strengthen both our imaginative faculties and our life forces.
You don’t have to be a trained artist, or even very experienced, to enjoy this course, but you do need self-motivation, some knowledge of Steiner’s meditative and colour work and some painting technique.
Background information
With the increasing, encroaching advent of AI-generated images filling our screens, through film, tv and internet, the essential creativity that lives in the soul of every human being is under threat. AI-generated art is not creative. It does not arise out of human creativity but out of machines. In the face of this attack on our human-ness, we need to bring a counter-impulse by strengthening our capacity to create inner images.
By working artistically and contemplatively with colour and the forming forces, we can nurture the emergent qualities of our humanity, such as our uniquely human capacities to create and to think and to think creatively, We can counter this dehumanising force,
We need to enliven our inner images to counter the life-destroying images of AI-generated art.
Who are the masterclasses for?

For artists, art therapists and art students looking to find a path of soul/spiritual development through the arts.
For anyone seeking a non-intellectual pathway into Steiner’s meditative path.
For anyone interested in gaining an appreciation of art as a revelation of spiritual realities through painting.

To get the most out of this course, it is anticipated participants will work on their own between the fortnightly sessions.
Required: familiarity with the anthroposophic approach to art and painting skills. Watercolour wet-on-dry skills is preferred but other techniques, such as wet-on-wet or chalk pastels are acceptable but technical advice is not directed towards these media.
Please note: this is not a step-by-step instructional class so not suitable for beginners in painting unless you are adventurous and self-motivated!
What dates are the classes?
2-4pm AEDT Friday afternoons
10 February-19 May
The workshops are recorded but live participation is preferred, unless your time zone makes this impossible.
How much does it cost?
Online series: $260 for 7×2 hr masterclasses, including video recording.
How do I register?
Registrations closed. Come back next year!
Payment details and a list of suggested materials and readings available upon registration.
For more information
For more information about the masterclass or for any questions, please contact Fiona Campbell

About Fiona Campbell
Fiona Campbell is a visual artist, researcher, lecturer and arts educator. She has an interdisciplinary PhD on creativity and cognition and has been a professional artist and arts educator for more than 30 years.
She is also teaches interdisciplinary research training and consciousness studies. She is a member of the Stream of Life Research Studio, where her focus is phenomenology and creative cognition and is creative consultant for the multimedia Parsifal Project.
Fiona has been involved with Anthroposophy for over 40 years and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience about the core principles and practice of Steiner’s work to her classes. You can find out more about her artwork or listen to an ABC Soul Search interview with her about the anthroposophical approach to art.

“Colour is the soul of Nature and of the entire cosmos…” Rudolf Steiner

Photo image: Black Study I, Fiona Campbell 1996, courtesy of Fiona Campbell

Form Drawing for Teachers
2023-02-19 - 2023-03-12 | Online
The How, the Why, and the When of
a Linear Language of Form in Education

Online workshops with Van James, artist, author, educator based in Hawaii, USA
About the workshops

What is the underlying importances of Form Drawing?
How does it benefit the growing child?
Why is it taught in Steiner-Waldorf schools and when (at what grade levels) is it appropriate and most beneficial?

We will address these questions and many more in this practical online art course for teaching children the creative art of form drawing.
Who are the workshops for?
For class teachers, homeschool parents, art instructors, art therapists and educational specialists.
No experience necessary.

Dates

In Asia: Sundays February 19 and 26 & March 5 and 12 2023,
9:30 AM – 11:30 AM (Indian Standard Time)
In USA: Saturdays February 18 and 25 & March 4 and 11, 2023,

Cost
Rs.6995 = $105 USD
Registration
Please look here for more details.
For more information
Please contact Van James at the Nurturer’s Studio

About Van James
Van James is an artist, author, Steiner-Waldorf educator and international advocate for the arts. A longtime teaching-artist in Hawai’i and a mentor for Gradalis Teacher Education. Van is a council member of the Visual Art Section of North America, a mentor with the Academy of Himalayan Art and Child Development, editor of Pacifica Journal, and an award-winning author of numerous books on culture and the arts including Drawing with Hand, Head and Heart, The Secret Language of Form: Visual Meaning in Art and Nature and the recently published Teaching Art History: Engaging Adolescents in Art, Cultural History and the Evolution of Consciousness.
Find out more about Van James here or Click here for Van’s YouTube Channel on painting

“We must begin with inner, not outer perception, by stimulating in the child a strong sense of symmetry. Even in the case of the very youngest children we can begin to do this. For example: we draw some figure on the blackboard and indicate the beginning of a symmetrical line.Then we try to make the child realise that the figure is not complete; they must find out how to complete it. In this way, we awaken an inner, active urge in the child to complete something as yet unfinished.This helps them to express an absolutely right conception of something that is a reality. The teacher, of course, must have inventive talent but that is always a very good thing. Above all else the teacher must have mobile inventive thought.”

In A Modern Art of Education by Rudolf Steiner

The Illumination: A Pictorial Contemplation for Easter
2023-04-09 17:00 - 18:15 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
An online contemplation exploring the phenomenon of light in the darkness, as experienced by the disciples on the path from Maundy Thursday to Easter Sunday.
Using the paintings of modern masters, artist Fiona Campbell leads this art contemplation using a special form of phenomenological observation called beholding that allows us to experience an artwork from within it.
Suggested reading: St John Chap. 13, St Luke Chap 24.
When
Date: 9th April 2023
Time: 5.00pm – 6.15pm AEST
Cost
$20 donation or amount of your choice is much appreciated.
For more information
Please contact Fiona Campbell
How to register
Register here
After registration, participants will be sent the Zoom link by email two (2) days beforehand, and then again one (1) hour beforehand.
Please login for the webinar via your Zoom app and not via Eventbrite.
About the presenter
Dr Fiona Campbell is an artist, lecturer and phenomenologist with a special interest in the Goethean approach. Out of her research and practice, she has developed a form of Goethean observation called beholding which is especially suited to the deep contemplation of artworks.
Trained at Tobias School of Art and Therapy in England and UTS in Communications, she has been painting and researching the Easter theme for over 20 years. Fiona is a founding member of the Stream of Life Research Studio, which promotes the phenomenological way of seeing the world.
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Feature image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill

What is Veil Painting? And why do we use it?
2023-04-28 12:00 - 14:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
“The basis of artistic creation is not what is,
but what might be; not the real, but the possible.
Rudolf Steiner, in The Aesthetics of Goethe’s Worldview

A beginner’s guide to wet-on-dry painting
With artist Fiona Campbell

This online workshop introduces the foundations of the wet-on-dry watercolour technique in all its variations, from classic veiling to more flexible layering and blending.
The workshop will be recorded and available for six months.
Why use this technique?
The workshop also covers why we use it in the anthroposophical approach to painting, including its effect on the painter and viewer and its applications in difference contexts, such as art therapy, meditation, Steiner school curriculum, lazure wall painting and general artistic work.
Fiona provides a wealth of professional and teaching practice with this special ist watercolour approach, including 35 years as a professional artist, 10 years art therapy practice and 12 years as a lazure/mural artist. She draws on Rudolf Steiner’s Colour lectures, his ‘portfolio’ of training sketches for artists and his numerous references to the role of art and the task of the modern artist.
We will cover:

Materials required for this technique
The basic wet-on-dry technique
Forming from positive and negative space
Blending, intensifying, enhancing
How form arises out of colour
Soul/spiritual indications
Different applications for different contexts e.g. therapeutic applications, artistic approaches

When
Friday 28 April, 2023 at 12.00pm AEST
Cost
$65 includes video recording
How to register
Registrations closed. Video recording of the workshop available for $65
For more information
Please contact Fiona Campbell

About the presenter
Fiona Campbell PhD is a visual artist, researcher, lecturer and arts educator. She does interdisciplinary research on phenomenology, creativity and cognition and has been a professional artist and arts educator for more than 30 years.
She is a member of the Stream of Life Research Studio, where her focus is phenomenology and is creative consultant for the multimedia Parsifal Project. She is also teaches research methods and consciousness studies in Masters and post graduate trainings.
Fiona has been involved with Anthroposophy for over 40 years and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience about the core principles and practice of Steiner’s work to her classes. You can find out more about her, read about her lecturing work at Sydney Rudolf Steiner College (where she has regularly taught since 1994) or listen to an 2021 ABC Soul Search interview with her about the anthroposophical approach to art.

Examples of the range of wet-on-dry techniques

Photo credits: courtesy of Fiona Campbell

From Wasteland to Grail Castle: the Soulscapes of Parzival
2023-06-24 17:00 - 18:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
An imaginative soul journey through the Parzival legend
This lecture and artistic presentation follows the journey of the young Parzival soul from his beginnings in the Waste Forest, through his trials of the spirit, to the culmination of his quest at the Grail altar.
Parzival is a story that takes place of different levels of reality, and should be understood as such. He wanders through soulscapes that are like dreams, but living dreams. He moves through shifts in consciousness into liminal spaces, but spaces that act as windows opening into the spiritual world, from which he can learn wisdom.
When
Date: 24th June 2023
Time: 5.00pm – 6.15pm AEST
Cost
$20 donation or amount of your choice is much appreciated.
For more information
Please contact Fiona Campbell
How to register
REGISTER HERE
After registration, participants will be sent the Zoom link by email two (2) days beforehand, and then again one (1) hour beforehand.
Please login for the webinar via your Zoom app and not via Eventbrite.
About the presenter
Dr Fiona Campbell is an artist, lecturer and phenomenologist.
She specialises in the study of evolving consciousness through artistic media and has lectured extensively on the Arthurian, Grail and Parzival themes for almost 30 years. She currently researcher and creative consultant for the Parsifal Project.
She has an PhD on creativity and thinking, and runs masterclasses in the anthroposophic approach to painting and drawing.
Fiona’s artworks can be seen at Painted Space; she also is a founding member of the Stream of Life Research Studio, which promotes the phenomenological way of seeing the world.

Breathing through the night: a painting intensive for Winter
2023-07-10 17:00 - 2023-07-14 18:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
A soul-building activity over five evenings
with artist Fiona Campbell

‘Colours are the breath of the living soul’
Dr Margarethe Hauschka

This online series over 5 evenings brings the health-bringing forces of the harmonious breath into our souls and bodies through painting the cycle of the night.
Based on a classic exercise called Painting as an Exercise for Breathing from the Hauschka art therapy training, we will paint the cycle of light and darkness from sunset to sunrise using colour and verse.
This is a deep breathing activity, an artistic contemplative ideal for enlivening the inner and outer chill of Winter. We breath in colour, and then breathe out its complementary in a transforming process that enlivens both the life body and soul. In this way, we bring our innermost being into connection with nature, moving gently between the two.
Who is it for?
For anyone who feels the need for soul nourishment at this time of year. The exercises support our mental health and overall wellbeing by harmonising the breath, easing our tensions and bringing our polarities into balance.
You don’t have to be an experienced painter to find nourishment in this series. You can use pastels, wet-on-wet or wet-on-dry techniques.
When
10th July – 14th July 2023 at 5.00pm AEST
Cost
$160 for 5 sessions, including video recording.
How to register
Register here
Materials list, payment details and suggested readings will be sent after registration.
The Zoom link for the workshop will be sent two hours beforehand. It will be the same link for each day.
For more information
For more information, please contact Fiona Campbell
About the presenter
Fiona Campbell PhD is a visual artist, muralist, researcher, lecturer and arts educator. She trained in the anthroposophic approach to the arts at Tobias School of Art and Transpersonal Therapy, first as an artist, then as a therapist.
Fiona have been a professional artist for more than 30 years and regularly offers masterclasses in wet on dry painting and art contemplations for festivals. She is also a member of the Stream of Life Research Studio, where her focus is phenomenology and is creative consultant for the multimedia Parsifal Project.
Fiona has been involved with Anthroposophy for over 40 years and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience about the core principles and practice of Steiner’s work to her classes. You can find out more about her, read about her lecturing work at Sydney Rudolf Steiner College (where she has regularly taught since 1994) or listen to an 2021 ABC Soul Search interview with her about the anthroposophical approach to art.

Anthroposophical Professional Development Initiative
2023-08-01 - 2023-11-21 | Online
Introducing a new online course
For terms 3 & 4, 2023
What is the Anthroposophical World View?
The aim of these two blocks of lectures and workshops is to present an overview of what is often experienced as an overwhelmingly large and complex body of knowledge, particularly for student teachers and other professionals working in anthroposophically-based groups and organisations.

A closer understanding of how spirit and matter permeate each other lies at the very heart of any truly monistic world view, such as the one Rudolf Steiner gave to the world. It is out of this very understanding that Anthroposophy can be concretely applied in so many practical fields of life.
Lecture series

Term 4 Lecture Series II: An Introduction to Rudolf Steiner’s Cosmology
Download the lecture program

Full course program
Three Worlds – 4 Ethers : Connecting Spirit and Matter
Block 1 (Term 3) explores the links between the physical, astral and spiritual worlds and how nature and the human being are placed within this multi-tiered reality. This also includes the Manifestation process by which spirit incarnates into physical form and substance via the medium of the 4 Ethers, which form the bridge between spirit and matter.

Steiner’s Cosmology: The Cosmic Mission of Humanity and Earth
Block II (Term 4) explores the larger Chronological context, which leads us to the question of humanity’s cosmic origins and future destiny. Where did humanity come from? Where are we going? What is our cosmic purpose and mission on Earth and within the larger spiritual universe? Rudolf Steiner’s surprising answers can throw a profound light on such questions, including the problem of good and evil, human freedom and the longer-term consequences of the seeds we are planting right now, both as individuals and collectively as a humanity. The cosmological picture also provides a context to the currently raging, worldwide battle between Good and Evil and can help us face this battle with renewed confidence and strength in our humanity.

Download the program here.
Cost
Please check the program flyer for fees
Enrolment
Download the enrolment form
For more information

For a 15-minute video introduction
Contact Johannes on: +61 (0) 414 724 587

Telling the Difference
2023-08-26 15:00 - 2023-11-18 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
The Oral Art of Telling Myths, Legends,
Sagas, Parables, Fables and FolkTales
An Online Course with Iris Curteis, PhD

Myths, Legends, Sagas, Parables, Fables, & Folktales are often lumped together or confused. They really are very different; they have different relationships to what we could call the sacred-spiritual, they have different social functions, & they require different ‘ways of telling’.
This five-part online course is about getting to know these differences & building practical skills so you can confidently ‘tell the difference’ when you are telling a story. Whether you use storytelling in child or adult education, parenting, community building, social justice, caregiving, or are looking for creative ways to explore your cultural roots, this course will develop storytelling skills, inspire cultural insights and provide a clear, practical introduction to ‘liminal space’, the importance of story openings & closings, why we need them, & how they work.
Seminar Outline
Topic 1 – ‘Liminal Space’; the health and social benefits created through this space for people of all ages; opening and closing the liminal Space; a contract of trust
Topic 2 – Myths; ancient and timeless oral knowledge of beginnings: the sacred that creates the world; divine standards; the foundations of lore and law
Topic 3 – Legends and Saga/Folklore; Actions of demi-gods and human beings placed within human time; a sense of truth; embedded within the ‘culture of place’
Topic 4 – Fables & Parables; the educational, culturising or cautionary tale; the comparison – animals speaking and acting like humans or fictitious people; grasping the unfamiliar idea (compassion for your enemy)
Topic 5 – Folktales: our guide to new ways of thinking; a ‘living experience ‘of expanded reality’, meeting the challenges of the return journey, treasures and new wisdom are gifts gained for the community; wedding the land – the new ancient ecology
Dates
3.00 pm to 5.00 pm 26/8, 16/09, 07/10, 28/10, 18/11
Cost (inc. course material and zoom)

Standard $250;
Individual sessions $50
Prices open to negotiation

To book
Book here!
Find out more
Please contact Iris Curteis
About the presenter
Iris Curteis is a Storyteller and Speech Artist with 40 years of artistic experience. Her background includes studies in Visual Arts, Speech formation [Creative Speech] & Dramatic Arts (Europe), BA & BA hon. (Creative Writing) and a PhD on Storytelling and Community Building [Australia]. Anthroposophy has been her source of inspiration for 50 years.

What is veil painting? Exploring the four elements through gesture
2023-09-30 14:00 - 16:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
With artist Fiona Campbell
This online workshop uses the four elements – warmth, air, water, earth – to build on the foundations of the wet-on-dry watercolour technique, introduced last April in What is veil painting? And why do we do it?
The workshop teaches classic veiling; participants will create an artwork with a nature theme with guidance from the presenter. The workshop will be recorded and available for three months.
Why we use this technique?
The workshop demonstrates the classic veiling technique, as used in therapy and meditative practices. We use the theme of the four elements to explore how different brush strokes embody different activities and moods, and the effects this has on both painting and painting.
Each element has a different gesture that characterises the phenomenal world of Nature. These gestures provide variations in veiling approaches that go beyond being mere ‘outer’ techniques and point to how we must learn to paint out of our inner soul life rather than out of ‘special effects’.
The workshop also explores the fundamentals of the anthroposophic approach to painting.
Who is it for?
For anyone interested in learning more about this unique watercolour approach to enlivening colour.
For anyone interested in the anthroposophic approach to art, colour and painting.
When
Saturday 30 September, 2023 at 2.00pm AEST
Cost
$65 includes video recording
How to register
Book here
How to join the workshop
The Zoom link and a list of materials will be sent to you after you register.
For more information
Please contact Fiona Campbell

About the presenter
Fiona Campbell PhD is a visual artist, researcher, lecturer and arts educator. She does interdisciplinary research on phenomenology, creativity and cognition and has been a professional artist and arts educator for more than 30 years.
Fiona provides a wealth of professional and teaching practice with this specialist watercolour approach, including 35 years as a professional artist, 10 years art therapy practice and 12 years as a lazure/mural artist.
Fiona has been involved with Anthroposophy for over 40 years and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience about the core principles and practice of Steiner’s work to her classes. She draws on Rudolf Steiner’s Colour lectures, his ‘portfolio’ of training sketches for artists and his numerous references to the role of art and the task of the modern artist.
You can find out more about Fiona here or listen to an 2021 ABC Soul Search interview with her about the anthroposophical approach to art.

“The basis of artistic creation is not what is,
but what might be; not the real, but the possible.
Rudolf Steiner, in The Aesthetics of Goethe’s Worldview

Photo credit: Trees in Sunny Air, © Fiona Campbell

The Two Jesus Children
2023-12-17 17:00 - 18:15 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
A pictorial contemplation of the young Jesus,
as differently described in the Gospels
for the 3rd Sunday in Advent

Presenter: Fiona Campbell

This Advent webinar ponders the mystery of the two different portrayals of Jesus in his youth, as described by St Matthew and St Luke. Illustrating the talk with artworks from the great masters, Fiona Campbell explores the polarity of the old and young souls of the two Jesuses, with indications from Rudolf Steiner.
Cost
$20 donation or whatever you can afford, A video recording will be available after the event.
Time and date
5.00pm – 6.15pm AEDT, 17th December 2023
Bookings
Book here!
How to join the webinar
Participants will be sent the Zoom link by email two (2) days beforehand, and then again one (1) hour beforehand.
Please login for the webinar via your Zoom app and not via Eventbrite.

For more information
Please contact Fiona Campbell

About the presenter
Fiona Campbell is a researcher, lecturer, visual artist and arts educator. She has an interdisciplinary PhD on creativity and cognition and also trained as an art therapist.
She has special expertise in the anthroposophic approach to painting and and teaching painting for 25 years.
Fiona is also a member of the Stream of Life Research Studio, where she focuses on her other two specialisations, phenomenology and creative cognition.
You can find out more about Fiona on her website or listen to a ABC Soul Search interview with her about the anthroposophical approach to art.

Image: Trabzon, Hagia Sophia Ἁγία Σοφία © Creative Commons

The Four Large Watercolors: Seasonal Painting with Van James
2024-01-07 14:00 - 16:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Seasonal Painting themes based on
Rudolf Steiner’s originals of 100 years ago

New Life, Three Crosses, Archetypal Plant and Archetypal Man/Animal will be explored in connection with the festival times of year: Christmas/Winter, Easter/Spring, Saint John’s/Summer, and Michaelmas/Autumn. These were the last four watercolour paintings created by Rudolf Steiner in connection with a deepening of his work in Spiritual Science and the significance of the cycle of the year.
Find out more
Contact Nurturers Studio for more information

Working with Colour, Out of Colour
2024-03-02 16:00 - 2024-04-06 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Painted Space Studio

A short online course
introducing how to work with colour in painting

Anthroposophic approach to painting
How do we experience colour? And what does it mean that form arises out of colour, and not that colour is attached to form? So how do we paint ‘out of colour’ and not form? To answer these questions, we start with Goethe’s Theory of Colour as our foundation. Using immersive wet-on-wet watercolour, we explore the qualities and gestures of each colour, and learn how colours have a life of their own, qualities that express their very essence, when painted ‘out of colour’.
Why Goethe’s Theory of Colour?
Goethe proposed a revolutionary method of approaching the phenomena of colour, one which integrates the observer with the experience. Further, Goethe was concerned with the qualities of colours, which he called the ‘deeds and sufferings of the light’. By immersing our senses in the colours, we come a deep, intuitive relationship with them that connects us more strongly to both the physical and soul worlds.
This course provides a foundation to the approach to painting used in Steiner (Waldorf) schools and to the anthroposophic understanding of colour itself.
Who is it for?

For Steiner class teachers who would like to learn more about the nature of colour as used in the Steiner School curriculum
For anyone interested in learning the fundamentals of the anthroposophic approach to art, colour and painting.

When is it?
2 March-6 April, Saturdays 4pm-5.15pm AEDT
Six weekly sessions plus recording
Cost
$170 AUD/$120 USD
$190 AUD for PD certificate
Bookings
Book here!
For more information
Find out more about this course and others,

About Painted Space Studio
Painted Space Studio offers a comprehensive training program in art, emphasising its potential as a spiritual practice. By recognising art as a bridge to the spiritual, the studio provides individuals with an creative path for harmonising and strengthening their inner being through art.
Painted Space uses the anthroposophic approach to art as its framework, but leads each artistically-striving individual towards the full expression of their own creativity, which goes beyond mere aesthetics and taps into the profound connection between the human spirit and the creative process.
Director: Fiona Campbell

Feature image: Goethe’s symmetric colour wheel with associated symbolic qualities (1809)

Three Crosses Painting Workshop
2024-03-24 09:30 - 11:30 (Asia/Kolkata) | Online
Painting the Easter theme
based on Rudolf Steiner’s original of 100-years ago

On the centennial of Rudolf Steiner’s Easter motif, this online painting session will work with the formative colour story of The Three Crosses by Rudolf Steiner and will explore the connection with the festival time of year: Easter/Spring. This was one of the late watercolour paintings created by Rudolf Steiner in connection with a deepening of his work in Spiritual Science and the significance of the cycle of the year in relation to the human soul.
What is it about?
On Saturday evenings in the US and Sunday mornings in Asia, artist-educator Van James will guide beginners, intermediate and experienced artists through this colour-imagination of the mystery of Golgotha as depicted in colour. This is a practical painting workshops including illustrated conversation and discussion meeting on the weekend of March 23/24, 2024.
When is it on?
Sunday 24 March for Asia/Oceania participants
Saturday 23 March for US participants.
Who is it for?
No experience is necessary (have painting materials prepared and ready).
A recording will be available.
Find out more
Contact Nurturer’Studio for more information and registration or download the flyer.

Sponsored by www.nurturerstudio.com

Feature image: Three Crosses, by Rudolf Steiner

The Second Initiation of Lazarus at the Foot of the Cross
2024-03-29 19:00 - 20:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
The Stream of Life Research Studio
presents
A Contemplation for Good Friday
‘What works between you and me, woman?’

Join us on Good Friday for a online contemplation on the mystery of Christ’s last words to Mary, mother of God and John, the beloved disciple, as they stood by the cross on Golgotha, in light of the events at the Marriage at Cana.
We begin with a phenomenological art contemplation on the theme, led by Fiona Campbell, followed by a meditation from Jude on Mary and John at the foot of the cross.
Suggested reading: St John Chap. 19
When
7.00pm – 8.30pm AEDT, Good Friday 29th March 2024
Cost
$20 donation or amount of your choice is much appreciated
Bookings
Book here
Zoom Link will be sent by email two days, two hours and ten minutes before the event!
For more information
Download the flyer to share or contact Fiona Campbell or Jude Neeme-Samson
Fiona Campbell

Malaysia Waldorf Teacher Preparation
2024-04-08 08:00 - 2024-04-14 15:00 (Asia/Kuala_Lumpur) | Online
Painting Grade 1 to Grade 6
with Van James

This course is part of the Malaysia Waldorf Teacher Preparation Cycle 2, but we welcome public and international participants. This course will trace the visual artistic development of the child through their painting and work with color in the primary and elementary school years.
The course will include the importance of the threefold human being, multi-intelligence teaching, and understanding some of the latest neurological research as a basis for the importance of education. Wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry watercolour painting of stories and letters, landscapes and maps, figures and naturalistic forms will all be practiced with the intention of experiencing and understanding the purpose and place of art in elementary school education and for adult human development.
This is one of the intermodules for Malaysia Waldorf Teacher Preparation Cycle 2 (Inter Module 4). However, for this ONLINE module, we open up to public and welcome international participants as well.
When is it?
8th – 10th April 2024; 12th – 14th April 2024
9am – 3pm via Zoom (Malaysia time; GMT +8)
NOTE: The workshop is conducted in English. Video recordings with Chinese translation can be provided upon request. Note that it is not a live translation.
Cost
USD 195
The video recordings will be opened for viewing from April 5th to June 30th, 2024.
Registration
Register here

Find out more
Please download the flyer or contact Steiner Education Malaysia.

Feature image: Sunrise, Steiner Training Motifs, by Van James

Working with Colour Chords
2024-04-27 15:30 - 2024-06-29 17:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Zoom online events, Australia
A foundation course in wet-on-dry painting
with artist Fiona Campbell
We explore how colours work with each other and upon each other in harmony, in polarity and as complementaries. It follows the Assenza approach to colour and painting, which is based on Goethe’s and Steiner’s theories of colour.
This fortnightly course also provides you with the foundations of the anthroposophic approach to wet-on-dry painting, where translucent coloured surfaces are continually overlaid with each other, so that new colours and new surfaces arise out of their meeting. From this colour interplay, forms gradually arise.
This online course is part of the Art as a Path of Schooling for the Soul training.
What is the Assenza approach?
Beppe Assenza (1905-1985) was already an established artist when he became inspired by Rudolf Steiner’s work on the nature of colour and his colour theory. Unlike the Wagner and Collois d’Herbois schools of anthroposophic art, he chose to work phenomenologically with colours i.e. out of our lived experience of painting red, blue, yellow, etc. His approach is both free and playful and yet methodological in its exploration that produces an open, atmospheric picture surface. In this way, we train our perceptual faculties while deepening our soul experience of colours in composition.
Who is it for?

For anyone interested in exploring the different techniques under the wet-on-dry umbrella.
For artists, art therapists and Steiner (Waldorf) teachers who want to deepen their understanding of colour (PD certificates available).

This course is core to the Art as a Path of Schooling for the Soul training.
When is it?
27 April-29 June 2024, Saturdays 3.30pm-5.30pm AEDT (10 hours class time)
Five fortnightly sessions plus video recording
How much does it cost?
$230 AUD/$165 USD
$250 AUD for PD certificate
Video recording included in the fee, available for three months.
How do I register?
Register here
For more information
For more information about the course or for any questions, please contact Fiona Campbell

About Fiona Campbell
Fiona Campbell is a visual artist, researcher, lecturer and arts educator. She has an interdisciplinary PhD on creativity and cognition and has been a professional artist and arts educator for more than 30 years.
Under the name Painted Space, she runs a schooling course that combines inner work with visual arts training.
You can find out more about Fiona at Painted Space or listen to an ABC Soul Search interview with her about the anthroposophical approach to art.

If I delve deeper into the characters of the different colours, they show me their dynamic qualities. Out my experience, I can then let the colours guide me.
Assenza

Feature image: New Life, by Fiona Campbell, 2017
Insert image: courtesy of Painted Space

Breathing Out The Winter: A Therapeutic Intensive
2024-07-27 14:00 - 2024-07-28 17:00 (Australia/Adelaide) | Online
Painted Space Studio
presents

An Art Intensive For Nourishing The Soul Forces

Let’s prepare ourselves Spring!
This intensive therapeutic painting workshop brings the health-giving forces of the harmonious breath into our souls and bodies as we breathe out the Winter and breathe in the renewed life coming towards us.

Late Winter can be a difficult time: Nature’s death shudder is still with us, but already signs of hope and new growth are appearing in the earth. By preparing our souls for the burgeoning forces of Spring, we nurture the new forces arising in our inmost being and bring them into harmonious rhythm with Nature’s rhythms.

Based on a classic Hauschka therapy exercise Painting as an Exercise for Breathing, this online workshop is an immersive experience using wet-on-wet painting or pastels and is for anyone in need of soul nourishment.

Online guided exercises and contemplation interspersed with working quietly in the comfort of your home with the company of an Australia-wide community.

Why join the live class? Benefits of live participation
When you paint with others, at the same time as them, even though it is in a virtual environment, you are creating community. Think of it as a group of people coming together with the specific intention to build substance, to create something together, to bring something into the world that benefits both ourselves yet also puts positive, creative forces into the world. And we create within a divine-spiritual community. Divine beings look over our shoulders; we create in their company and in the company of like-minded others.The gift is in the giving, in the doing, as much as in the product.
Who is it for?
Beginners welcome! You do not need to be an experienced artist to benefit from this workshop. Participants are guided through the experience with demonstrations.
When

2-5pm ACST, 27-28 July 2024
Cost
$190 AUD/$134 USD including recordings
Bookings
Book here

You will be sent the payment details and a list of suggested materials after payment.

The Zoom link is sent one (1) day before the workshop.
For more information
Please contact Fiona Campbell at Painted Space

Feature image: excerpt of painting of the cycle of the plant, Weleda Calendar 2000 © Alexander Winter

Working with Steiner's Nature Mood Sketches
2024-08-31 15:00 - 2024-11-23 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Painted Space Studio
presents
The Seven School (Friedwart) Sketches series

This fortnightly online course introduces you to Rudolf Steiner’s approach to painting and his understanding of how the formative forces shape and move the world around us through his own pastel sketches. The course uses the wet-on-dry veiling technique or pastels, if preferred.
The Seven School (or Friedwart) Sketches were first given to Waldorf teachers as part of Steiner’s new impulse for understanding both Art and Nature, to help students explore invisible yet objective laws of Nature. The series leads us from the archetypal nature moods of sunrise and sunset through the four elements to the human world, culminating in a Madonna and Child motif.
What are the Training Sketches?
Theses sketches are part of a comprehensive portfolio known as the Training Sketches for the Artists. Along with The Nine Training Sketches (Nature Moods) and the Goetheanum epochs motifs, they form an important part of this portfolio.
But these sketches are not images of external natural events; they refer to acts that are effective in nature and human, says Christiane Haid, head of the Visual Arts Section at the Goetheanum. She believes that working with the creative forces in and around us can become the starting point for facing tasks in healing the world.
Who is this course for?

For Steiner teachers, artists, art therapists and art students seeking to understand how the formative forces work in Nature and Human.

For anyone interested in the foundations of the anthroposophic approach to art, colour and painting. You do not need to be an experienced artist to enjoy this course.

This course is a core course of the Art as a Path of Schooling for the Soul training.
When is it?
3pm-5pm Saturdays AEST, 31 August-23 November 2024
Seven two-hour fortnightly sessions. Participants are expected to do some homework between classes. Edited recordings of the sessions are available post-class but live participation is preferred, unless your time zone makes this impossible.
Cost
$300 AUD/$205 USD
$305 AUD for PD certificate
Video recording included in the fee, available for private study.

Book here!

How to join the workshops
The Zoom link, payment details, a list of materials and suggested readings will be sent to you after booking.

Other Painted Space Studio workshop courses

For more information

Contact

‘…and in the creations of the artist t here will appear to us
the traces of his soul experience in the cosmos‘

Steiner

Feature image: Sunlit Tree by a Waterfall No. 6 © Fiona Campbell

A Conversation With Your Garden: Plant Observation And Drawing
2024-09-11 17:00 - 2024-11-20 18:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Painted Space Studio
presents
A Series of Workshops on Goethean Observation and Nature Moods

Let’s prepare ourselves Spring!
Spring is the ideal time of year to turn our eyes to Nature and learn her secrets through Goethean observation, drawing and reflection. Spending time up close with Nature in the garden, a park, a local nature reserve or even just with a few pot plants on your balcony is both energising and healing.
(Of course, any time of the year in Nature is good, but Spring and Autumn have particular qualities of change and transformation especially suited to drawing and observation.)
What will we do?
Through the six online workshops, learn to see anew the wonder of your own garden. Each workshop leads us through a process of becoming ‘at home’ with Nature, from quiet contemplation, careful observation, and mood immersion, to sketching, colour work and reflection.
Learn the core stages of a phenomenological process and practice the different drawing/sketching techniques to take us through this process. Techniques include charcoal, pencil, paint and pastel. Participants keep a visual diary to document their discoveries and observations.
By getting up close with our garden in this way, the world around us becomes more alive – living and becoming.
What is Goethean phenomenology?
Goethean phenomenology (also known as Goethean observation) helps us develops new eyes for the world around us. It offers us another way of being in the world, one that brings us into a more participatory connection with Nature and ourselves. We learn to step into the world and feel at home with it.
Who is it for?

For Steiner teachers, artists, art therapists and art students seeking to understand how the formative forces work in Nature
For anyone interested in knowing more about Goethean phenomenology and how to practice it.

Suitable for all levels. You do not need to be an experienced artist to enjoy these workshops.
Video recordings included in the fee, available for private study.
When is it on?
5.00pm-6.30pm AEST, 11 September to 20 November 2024
How do I book?

Book here
Please complete the online form to book for this series of workshops. You will be sent the payment details and a list of suggested materials and readings after booking.
The Zoom link is sent one (1) day before the workshop begins.
More information
Find out more about this course and others from Painted Space or contact Fiona Campbell.

Oh, I who wish to grow, I look out, and inside me the tree grows.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Feature image: Ethereal Space of Plant Growth, Plate I, The Plant between Sun and Earth © Olive Whicher

The Advent of Mary: A Christmas Contemplation
2024-12-01 16:30 - 18:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
The Stream of Life Studio

presents
An artistic contemplation on the Marys of St Matthew and St Luke
Join us for this webinar on the 1st Sunday in Advent for an exploration of the lives and spiritual origins of the two Marys
This Stream of Life Studio workshop looks particularly at the Sophianic impulse the two Marys carry in very different ways, and its significance for our human development today. Using a phenomenological approach, we will immerse ourselves in contemplation of four original artworks (paintings and poetry), followed by discussion.
Suggested readings
The Fifth Gospel by Rudolf Steiner
The Two Marys, by Fiona Campbell
When
4.30pm – 6.00 pm AEDT, 1 December 2024.
Cost
Entry by donation: $AUD 20 or whatever you would like to give to support our research.
Bookings
Book here
The Zoom link will be sent out two days before the event, and then again one hour before we start.
For more information, please contact Fiona Campbell or Jude Neeme-Samson.
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Feature image: New Life © Fiona Campbell

Three Kings and a Rose Cross
2024-12-14 15:30 - 17:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Painted Space Studio
presents
An artistic workshop for Christmas

Join me for a creative afternoon workshop of art and conversation, exploring Rudolf Steiner’s enigmatic Three Kings motif, created by Steiner in pastels for Christmas 1923.
The Three Kings festival will be significant for our future, Steiner states:In the Rose-Cross we have the fourfold human being: in the Cross the physical human, the etheric human and the astral human, and in the roses, the Self. How do we connect the roses of the Christmas tree with the cross of Easter? And how do the Three Magi from the East play into this? What is Mary’s special role here?
Art-making is a way of knowing, of understanding through doing and creating. Working together, we seek to find answers to these questions, while preparing ourselves for the coming Christmas festival.
Join us in person in Mount Barker SA on 8 December or online on 14 December
About the workshop
Artist Fiona Campbell will lead participants through the process of building up the motif in colour, recommending colours and gestures, and providing expert guidance in how to create a beautiful, ,meaningful artwork to take home.
You do not need drawing/painting skills to enjoy this hands-on workshop.
When is it on?
Online: 3.00 pm- 5.00 pm Adelaide (ACDT), Saturday 14th December, 2024.
Mount Barker: 2.00 pm – 5.00 pm Adelaide (ACDT), Sunday 8th December, 2024.
Cost
Online workshop
$40 includes video recording
Mount Barker workshop
$60 with art materials provided, afternoon tea included.
$30 if you bring your own materials
Space limited, so book soon.
Bookings
Book here
You will be sent the workshop details after booking, with a list of suggested materials after payment.
For more information
Please contact Fiona Campbell

Feature image: Three Kings © Rudolf Steiner Verlag

Living Into The Becoming World
2025-02-12 19:00 - 20:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Painted Space Studio
A Lecture on Rudolf Steiner’s Artistic Impulse For The Future
with Fiona Campbell
Thursday, 13th February 2025 7.00 PM – 8:15 PM ACDT

How art can be a schooling path for the ordering & strengthening of the soul
A pictorial presentation on how Rudolf Steiner’s extensive portfolio of training sketches, motifs, watercolours and blackboard drawings are a gift to all artists seeking an ever-renewing source of creativity. How working with Steiner’s images can help us shift from our habitual ways of seeing the world as form and ‘breathe’ into the becoming and dying away world of Human in Cosmos.
This webinar is the third in the series on Art as a Spiritual Practice.
Watch the first lecture in this series!
Cost
$20 donation or whatever you can afford to support this initiative.
A video recording wiill be available for three months after the event.
How to join the webinar
Book here
Participants will be sent the Zoom link by email two (2) days beforehand, and then again one (1) hour beforehand.
Please login for the webinar via your Zoom app and not via Eventbrite.
For more information
Contact the organiser.

Feature image: The Birds Fly Through Us, courtesy of Fiona Campbell

Spirit in Human, Human in Spirit: Investigations with Painting
2025-02-14 14:00 - 2025-05-09 16:00 (Australia/Sydney)
Painted Space Studio presents
A course in the spiritual/physical nature of the human being

“In the head the power of faith;
in the heart the might of love ;
in the full human being, all-sustaining hope.”
Rudolf Steiner

Rudolf Steiner’s picture imaginations arose from direct experiences of the spirit. He captured many of these pictures in his pastels sketches and paintings, called the Training Sketches for the Artist. He suggested that working artistically with these sketches would act as an impulse in us to find new directions for the future of art as a path for spiritual-scientific inquiry.
This online masterclass in painting over seven fortnightly sessions examines the human being in connection to the spirit from three different perspectives: the spiritual impulse in the human being, the human impulse in the spiritual world, and the threefold human being as spirit, soul and body.
We use three of Steiner’s training sketches as our starting point for this exploration.
What are Steiner’s Training Sketches?
The Training Sketches can be seen as ‘picture seeds’ and were given to the artists in answer to a request from the painter Henni Geck for a new impulse in art. Henni Geck (1884-1951) was the first painter to use these indications.
Who is the course for?

For Steiner teachers, artists, art therapists and art students seeking to understand the hidden forces of Cosmos and Nature.

Painting skills and understanding of core anthroposophic principles recommended to get the most out of this course.
Selected readings by Rudolf Steiner complement the practical work.
When is it?
14 February-9 May 2025, Fridays 2pm-4pm AEDT
Seven fortnightly classes plus recording
Cost
$280 AUD/$190 USD for ongoing participants
$290 for PD certificate or for new participants enrolling only in this course.
Video recordings included in the fee, available for private study.
Book here!
You will be sent the payment details and a list of suggested materials and readings after booking.
The Zoom link is sent one (1) day before the workshop begins.
For more information
Contact Fiona Campbell

Feature image: The Threefold Human Being © Rudolf Steiner Verlag
