Empowered Journeys

The painting workshop continued the exploration of emotional journeys. Some people chose to use their creative writing from the previous session as the inspiration for their paintings. Others elected to start on a painting based on new imagery that they wanted to explore. We were also given some prompts by the workshop facilitator, Alice, to help us think about the imagery and message that we wanted to get across. The prompts encouraged us to consider different types of imagery that resonated with our individual surgical journeys, such as:

• An object or collection of objects.
• A place, landscape, time of day, or weather pattern.
• A person, group of people, or a character from a book or a film.
• A colour or pattern.
• An animal, a cartoon character, or a mythological creature.
• A song or genre of music.

Alice also provided us with different styles of timelines to fill in to get us thinking about the way in which our journeys have developed over time. The purpose of all these prompts was to help us find a starting point for our paintings, that we could then work on over the course of the session.

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