Creative Expression Workshop

I have just come back from a 'creative workshop' at Hospice in the Weald. I have to confess I was abit apprehensive as I had read in some forums that some people felt art workshops were abit patronising and involved sticking on pom poms and the like.  I was pleasantly surprised. There were 3 of us of varying degrees of wellness.  We all had a great time, we didn't want to leave.....Experimentation was had by all and none of us had similar interpretations of the art we were copying. We used oils and water colour.

Every other Thursday I have reiki there too, in a beautiful room that over looks the well kept garden.
it is my spiritual fix, and helps me to calm right down and enjoy the warm therapeutic process while i spiritually geek out with a similar minded lady.

I am going to take my daughter to a creative session on saturday morning, the atmosphere there is wonderfully homely and welcoming and while everyone of us knows what a hospice is there is not a maudlin looking person there.

Here are my pics ( we had an hour )from the session today watercolour tree and Poppy interpretation of Georgia O Keefes Poppy, not finished (bit of a coincidence we were using a poppy)....go there....it's a great place well deserved of the charitable funding that so many people work hard to raise as well as the countless volunteers on hand in the building.
love it HITW.