David Krut Book Store and Gallery to host a creative workshop
By CityLife Arts Writer
Those who would like to take a break from the hustle and buzz of city life can do so by attending a break-away workshop organized to cater for such city weary people looking for a creative distraction.
This Creative Intuition Workshop is @ THE BLUE HOUSE on Jan Smuts Avenue in Parkwood on March 26, 2022.
“David Krut Bookstore & Gallery will be hosting Theresa Hardman and her insightful workshop on creative intuition! This workshop will be a retreat from the world of busyness and hustle… together we will slow down and discover new
David Krut Gallery and Bookstore is pleased to host Theresa Hardman and her insightful workshop on creative intuition. This workshop will be a retreat from the world of busyness and hustle… together we will slow down and discover new ways of being in the world.
“Over the last 15 years I have been trying to understand the fleeting and fragile experience of intuition during the creative process which occurs when we let go of the thinking mind and surrender. The experience of creative intuition is characterised by moments of mysterious potentiality and open-ended suggestiveness which generate new and original thoughts, sounds, images and actions.
It is to these original and highly personal points of potential that you, as acreative person, will constantly return for inspiration, as you attempt to express in the medium of your choice (words, paint, music) your original contribution to the world.
On Saturday morning we will begin with a discussion about what intuition is, and more specifically how it functions during the creative process. Ways of nurturing creative intuition will be suggested, and it is these ways of being which we will be nurturing during the rest of the day. ways of being in the world.
We will talk
We will write
we will draw
and we will paint…
Who is Theresa Hardman?
Theresa is an Architect, Artist, Designer and Dancer. Having had 26 years of experience teaching design and drawing to architecture students at university, she is passionate about creativity in all forms.
Theresa has recently completed a PhD thesis on nurturing the non-rational aspects of the creative process, ie. how can I teach you to access the most personal, unique, creative voice that is yours/
A podcast has recently been produced as well. In this podcast episode, David Krut Podcast host Britt Lawton was in conversation with architect, artist, designer and creativity expert Theresa Hardman. Theresa shared her knowledge from research for her PhD thesis – Understanding Intuition in the Creative Process – completed at the University of the Free State in 2019. Theresa has presented her knowledge on the topic at conferences in Durban, Port Elizabeth, Cape Town and Pretoria.
Topics covered include: what is creativity; the importance of solitude and collaboration; the rational and non-rational aspects of the creative process; psychology and Eastern philosophical influences on understanding the creative experience; the external factors that nurture creativity; mindfulness versus ‘mindlessness’… & much more! Theresa concludes that creative intuition can be understood and actively nurtured in the academic creative arts context and aims to share this knowledge with the world – beyond the academic environment.
COST: R 1 300 including workshop content, all materials, tea & coffee
(R 650 deposit to secure your space) ONLY 10 SPACES AVAILABLE’”
RSVP to Theresa on 082 443 3840 or info@taolu.co.za.