Art Workshop - Drawing as Meditation

This workshop provides students with a chance to practice drawing techniques that slow down the artmaking process, resulting in a peaceful and healing experience. Use intuition and inspiration from Ox-Bow’s landscape to connect to natural, creative forces. Through meditative practices, we will engage all of our senses to enjoy calming, observational, and imaginative drawing. Learn to use tone and color to create serene and joyful moods with colored pencils and watercolor pencils on multimedia paper.

JANET TRIERWEILER enjoys creating large, expressive abstract paintings. Her work focuses on the sensual nature of art and the healing aspects of beauty. An interest in the full spectrum of human experience, from primal instincts to highest consciousness, has led her to study Eastern art and healing. A Reiki Master through the Usui System of Natural Healing and certified Feng Shui designer through the New York Institute of Art and Design, Trierweiler has taught drawing and painting at the Evanston Art Center, the North Shore Art League, the Chicago Mosaic School, the Chicago Botanic Garden, and online through her own website. Col-lectors of her work include Northwestern University, the Illinois Institute of Art, Frank Thomas, and Fifield Companies. She holds a BFA in Studio Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.