Foundation Course [Enrolment Form]
According to the method of Liane Collot d’Herbois.

The Foundation Course is taught over a four-year period and is designed to enable students to work artistically out of an understanding of light, colour and darkness. There are two blocks of 5 days each year. It may be taken as a course in its own right, or as part of the Painting Therapy Training.

Students work through a series of charcoal and painting exercises to stimulate a new awareness of colour phenomena. Working with light, colour and darkness in this way has a healing effect on the student and helps develop new faculties of perception.

The background research for the course is taken mainly from the work of Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), Johann W. V. Goethe (1749-1832), and Liane Collot d’Herbois (1907-1999.

Sally Matin teaches this course. She is an accredited teacher of this method of painting.
 
Course Overview
 
Theoretical subjects include:
• Introduction to colour theory
• Colour in connection to the evolution of consciousness.
• Exploration of colour in relationship to archetypal colour movements.
• Colour perspective, moods and atmospheres
• The characteristics of each colour and its healing potential.
• Light, darkness and colour in relationship to thinking, feeling and willing.
• Light, darkness and colour in relationship to health and illness.
• Study of general anthroposophy.

Practical subjects:
• Light and darkness exercises explored through the medium of charcoal.
• Corresponding colour worlds experienced though moist on moist water colour painting and veil painting
• There will be observation exercises to awaken and train the senses with respect to individual colours, using coloured pencils and pastels

Who would benefit from attending?
• The course would be of benefit to art students, health practitioners, nurses, people working in the care profession, psychiatrists, counsellors and all who are seeking for deeper answers in their work and life.

Personal interviews and assessment:
• Time will be given to meet each person individually during the course, so that it will be possible to assess how the content can best be adapted to individual needs.



Foundation Course Dates , Sunshine Coast, Queensland, 2013-2014

Magenta     2nd April – 6th April 2013
Carmine red/Cobalt Blue     9th Sept. – 13th Sept. 2013

Vermilion /Green     31st March – 4th April 2014
Orange/Turquoise     8th Sept. – 12th Sept. 2014

For more information on course modules [click here]

For more information contact Sally Martin [click here].

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