Sunday, October 28, 2018
Saturday, March 28, 2015
New Workshop! Doing the Work of Your Life: Moving Beyond Fear in Abstract Painting
work by Elizabeth Williams
L to R: Dr. Nancy Hillis, Katherine Aimone, and Audrey Phillips
NEW AIMONE ART SERVICES OFFERING
DOING THE WORK OF YOUR LIFE!
Moving Beyond Fear in Abstract Painting
August 3-6, 2015
Moving Beyond Fear in Abstract Painting
August 3-6, 2015
In this collaborative, holistic workshop, we’ll
explore ways to embrace doubts and move into
full creativity in abstract painting. We’ll provide
you with guided painting exercises to deepen
your exploration of unknown territory in your
work, including informal journaling as you work.
In the morning, we’ll take part in simple restorative yoga and meditation prior to a roundtable talk, creating an environment of support in which we can all talk openly about our work. You’ll be guided to embrace vulnerabilities, excitement, and discoveries with a group of like- minded artists.
By coming back to the body and centering yourself, you’ll gain access to practices that bring mindfulness to your work each and every day. Tethered by this practice, you can explore anything in your painting—such as dealing with the critical voice that comes up as well as the distractions of life.
This quest will take place in a beautiful, light- filled studio environment that nourishes both body and soul. You’ll come away armed with tools to create authentic work borne of insights about yourself as well as practices that will guide you as you develop your most authentic and truly personal work.
Join us on in this adventure now... during the most exciting time of your life!
Search for us through FACEBOOK:
Doing the Work of Your Life: Moving Beyond Fear in Abstract Painting
In the morning, we’ll take part in simple restorative yoga and meditation prior to a roundtable talk, creating an environment of support in which we can all talk openly about our work. You’ll be guided to embrace vulnerabilities, excitement, and discoveries with a group of like- minded artists.
By coming back to the body and centering yourself, you’ll gain access to practices that bring mindfulness to your work each and every day. Tethered by this practice, you can explore anything in your painting—such as dealing with the critical voice that comes up as well as the distractions of life.
This quest will take place in a beautiful, light- filled studio environment that nourishes both body and soul. You’ll come away armed with tools to create authentic work borne of insights about yourself as well as practices that will guide you as you develop your most authentic and truly personal work.
Join us on in this adventure now... during the most exciting time of your life!
Search for us through FACEBOOK:
Doing the Work of Your Life: Moving Beyond Fear in Abstract Painting
Full info at www.aimoneartservices.com
Number of participants: Limited to 14; beginning as well as
intermediate abstract painters are welcome
(NOTE: $300 deposit holds your place; Payment of balance of $450 in full is due no later than June 30, 2015)
FACILITATORS/TEACHERS
(l to r): Dr. Nancy Hillis, Katherine Aimone, Audrey Phillips,
and (not pictured) Letitia Walker (see bios on page 2)
(NOTE: $300 deposit holds your place; Payment of balance of $450 in full is due no later than June 30, 2015)
FACILITATORS/TEACHERS
(l to r): Dr. Nancy Hillis, Katherine Aimone, Audrey Phillips,
and (not pictured) Letitia Walker (see bios on page 2)
Location:
Schedule:
Tuition:
Schedule:
Tuition:
Aimone Studio at Thomaston
Academy; Thomaston, Maine
August 3, 10AM-5PM August 4-6, 9AM-5PM
$750; price includes large drawing
(vellum) paper
August 3, 10AM-5PM August 4-6, 9AM-5PM
$750; price includes large drawing
(vellum) paper
ABOUT YOUR TEACHERS/FACILITATORS:
For the past two years, Audrey Phillips has taught abstract painting workshops that emphasize creativity and focus on each student’s personal history. Having spent many years as an award-winning creative director and art director, her experience managing creative teams shows in her teaching style—empowering students to dig deeper and discover their authentic voice. She also coaches artists one-on-one for work on specific needs and goals. Phillips is an abstract painter who has shown her work nationally in both solo and group shows including a show in New York City. (www.AudreyPhillips.com)
Nancy Hillis, MD is an existential psychiatrist and abstract painter. As a physician, Nancy studied radiology at Harvard and completed her psychiatry residency at Stanford University. Her life-long interest and deep studies about creativity spurred her to produce a television program in California called Creativity and Consciousness during which she interviewed various artists. She has taught experimental painting at Stanford Sierra Camp since 2011. Nancy’s passion is creating a space for spontaneity, risk taking, allowing, and accessing the intelligence of the body. She has exhibited in solo and group shows in California, New Mexico, and Hawaii. (www.NancyHillis.com)
Katherine Aimone is an abstract painter who has spent her life working in the arts as a museum curator/ director as well as a writer. She holds an MA in art history and a BA in painting. She taught high school art briefly prior to pursuing her work in the field of museums and taught docents about art routinely. As a curator/ director she did many radio/television interviews sharing her knowledge. She and Steven Aimone have built the business of Aimone Art Services together, and she writes essays for artists through her company ArtsWrite. (www.katherineaimone.com, www.artswrite.com)
Letitia Walker is an Affiliate Purna Yoga Instructor and is registered with Yoga Alliance. She has been practicing yoga since 1998 and teaching since 2004, and has studied with many noted teachers. Letitia says: “What we do on the mat serves our life off the mat. Practice cultivates discernment, so we can practice more effectively... but more important is that we learn to make choices in daily life that bring us closer to who we truly are, so we live a life without regret.” (AshevilleYogaSangha.com)
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING:
From the moment you sit around the morning table with Audrey, as she leads you through quiet meditation, the transformation begins. Her talent goes way beyond the canvas. She peaks your excitement and teaches you how to reach deep inside through carefully prepared exercises and thought-provoking discussions backed by stimulating demonstrations and all the personal instruction you need.
—Joyce Shelton, Painter, Orlando FL
Dr. Nancy Hillis combines a deep professional experience in psychiatry with an intuitive, creative, childlike approach to painting. Magical insights come out of this wonderful mix. Through her own personal art journey, she has thought and lived deeply the process of moving beyond fear.
—Tammy Pittenger, Founder of Lighted Life
Thank you Katherine Aimone... the past few days of talks have helped me to understand many of the whys of my art and what it says about me. Your targeted, thoughtful questions led me to a deeper understanding of my thought process and painting. It was a wonderful journey of discovery.
—Carlos Ramirez; painter and fashion designer; Miami, Florida
Info about enrollment, accommodations, travel and the materials list can be found at
For the past two years, Audrey Phillips has taught abstract painting workshops that emphasize creativity and focus on each student’s personal history. Having spent many years as an award-winning creative director and art director, her experience managing creative teams shows in her teaching style—empowering students to dig deeper and discover their authentic voice. She also coaches artists one-on-one for work on specific needs and goals. Phillips is an abstract painter who has shown her work nationally in both solo and group shows including a show in New York City. (www.AudreyPhillips.com)
Nancy Hillis, MD is an existential psychiatrist and abstract painter. As a physician, Nancy studied radiology at Harvard and completed her psychiatry residency at Stanford University. Her life-long interest and deep studies about creativity spurred her to produce a television program in California called Creativity and Consciousness during which she interviewed various artists. She has taught experimental painting at Stanford Sierra Camp since 2011. Nancy’s passion is creating a space for spontaneity, risk taking, allowing, and accessing the intelligence of the body. She has exhibited in solo and group shows in California, New Mexico, and Hawaii. (www.NancyHillis.com)
Katherine Aimone is an abstract painter who has spent her life working in the arts as a museum curator/ director as well as a writer. She holds an MA in art history and a BA in painting. She taught high school art briefly prior to pursuing her work in the field of museums and taught docents about art routinely. As a curator/ director she did many radio/television interviews sharing her knowledge. She and Steven Aimone have built the business of Aimone Art Services together, and she writes essays for artists through her company ArtsWrite. (www.katherineaimone.com, www.artswrite.com)
Letitia Walker is an Affiliate Purna Yoga Instructor and is registered with Yoga Alliance. She has been practicing yoga since 1998 and teaching since 2004, and has studied with many noted teachers. Letitia says: “What we do on the mat serves our life off the mat. Practice cultivates discernment, so we can practice more effectively... but more important is that we learn to make choices in daily life that bring us closer to who we truly are, so we live a life without regret.” (AshevilleYogaSangha.com)
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING:
From the moment you sit around the morning table with Audrey, as she leads you through quiet meditation, the transformation begins. Her talent goes way beyond the canvas. She peaks your excitement and teaches you how to reach deep inside through carefully prepared exercises and thought-provoking discussions backed by stimulating demonstrations and all the personal instruction you need.
—Joyce Shelton, Painter, Orlando FL
Dr. Nancy Hillis combines a deep professional experience in psychiatry with an intuitive, creative, childlike approach to painting. Magical insights come out of this wonderful mix. Through her own personal art journey, she has thought and lived deeply the process of moving beyond fear.
—Tammy Pittenger, Founder of Lighted Life
Thank you Katherine Aimone... the past few days of talks have helped me to understand many of the whys of my art and what it says about me. Your targeted, thoughtful questions led me to a deeper understanding of my thought process and painting. It was a wonderful journey of discovery.
—Carlos Ramirez; painter and fashion designer; Miami, Florida
Info about enrollment, accommodations, travel and the materials list can be found at
AIMONEARTSERVICES.COM
Friday, January 30, 2015
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Friday, January 16, 2015
Full Circle: From Shadows to Nuances in a Power Failure
Readying for the opening
Viewers using cell phones to see paintings in the dark
Dr. Bruce Sawhill and me at the opening
Full Circle: From Shadows to Nuances in a Power Failure
Last night’s opening of my solo art exhibition ‘The Map and the Territory’ at the Marjorie Evans Gallery in Carmel, California contained a surreal surprise. Life truly imitated art when half an hour into the reception as daylight was fading the lights went out! A tree in the Carmel Forest fell on a power line, answering the question, ‘What happens when a tree falls in the woods and nobody is there to hear it?” What unfolded for the next half hour in the darkness made the night unforgettable and reminded me of my long, circuitous art journey.
Years ago, I was a radiologist. I found radiology to be very visual, logical and linear. It was about shadows on films and recognizing patterns. Soon, though, I realized that radiology was too constraining for my temperament and I turned to psychiatry which I found to be more relational, intuitive, and creative. Changing direction from radiology to psychiatry, though seemingly unrelated on the surface, was in fact simply moving ‘from shadows to nuances’ as John Shillito a neurosurgeon and eminence grise at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston told me at the time. This stepping into the mystery, allowing ambiguity, and experiencing ‘not knowing’ was similar to my new experience of painting at the time. As my study of psychiatry deepened, my painting took off.
Last night it occurred to me and my partner, physicist Dr. Bruce Sawhill, that radiology requires lots of electrical power and furthermore every branch of medicine with the exception of psychiatry requires power and machines. It was reminiscent of being in a big dark reading room in radiology. People were pondering paintings with little lights produced by cell phones similar to doctors trying to divine the ineffable inner workings of the human body with xrays, each beam of light illuminating only parts of the body of the painting, and that imperfectly.
At that moment, I began to see the disparate strands of my life knit together. I also realized that a few dozen cell phones cast a surprising amount of light! It was like the Middle Ages where people used candlelight to discern the images before them in the dark vaults of the cathedral. It was delightful to see the inventiveness, imagination, creative problem solving, perseverance, and generosity of the wonderful people there. The art became participatory and came full circle as art imitated life and the viewers rose to the occasion.
January 9, 2015
Nancy Leigh Hillis and Bruce Sawhill
Thursday, January 8, 2015
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| Nancy Leigh Hillis Solo Exhibition: The Map and the Territory runs through January 30, 2015 |
I am preparing for my solo exhibition opening reception tonight. We delivered the last four paintings to Carmel yesterday (the framed ones that are floated in contemporary maple frames and wet mounted, no glass). All I have left to do is buy a pair of shoes to match my outfit! My partner, Bruce Sawhill, will be there cheering me on. I'm nervous (is one ever not?) and excited simultaneously.
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Chromatic Atlas: Progression of a painting
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| Chromatic Atlas, 48" x 60", acrylic, graphite, charcoal. oil stick on canvas |
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