“Think of Color as one substance, one great cosmic substance that is incessantly in movement and its movements are due to the infinite variety of interactions between light and darkness.”

— Liane Collot d’Herbois 

 

We live in a time that threatens the sanctuary of our hearts. How do we soften the sharp edges of soul brought on by stress, worry, fear, or sorrow? Rightly addressed, the soul is nourished and healed by color. In this encounter with color the heart––the center of our being––is restored and becomes creative once again!

In this course we will explore Light, Darkness, and Color through exercises inspired by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Rudolf Steiner, and Collot d’Herbois. We will discover health-giving and balancing forces through many drawings in both charcoal and watercolor.

In its threefold nature, the human soul lives between at the threshold of the battle between light and darkness. Light awakens the nerve-thinking process; darkness stirs the life-sustaining warmth of will and metabolic forces. In the space between– –the rhythmic, breathing, and feeling realm that we so much connect to color––we find our true humanity. When we explore the pulse of color we may experience divine creative feeling within our own soul being.

In this course we will begin a path of schooling through color which we hope to continue yearly at Renewal but also several times during Archangel Raphael, Russian Icon the year. Participants are invited to attend one or more of these mid- year intensives. Teachers, painters, and those working or looking for fundamental understanding in color and soul are all welcome.

Materials fee: $30

IRIS SULLIVAN is an art/painting therapist, artist, and art teacher, who has been working with groups and individuals with pure color for 15 years. A student of Anthroposophy for over 30 years, she earned an M.A. in art therapy as well as a diploma from the Collot School of Art Therapy and a Waldorf teaching certificate. She has an art therapy private practice, teaches high school arts, and has taught at Rudolf Steiner College for 15 years.

KARINE MUNK FINSER Coordinator for Renewal Courses at the Center for Anthroposophy, received her Painting Therapy Diploma from the Goetheanum, Switzerland. She has worked with anthroposophical doctors, schools, and in private practice for nearly two decades. She also is an Associate Faculty member at Antioch University New England, where she teaches painting, drama, and educational philosophy. Karine’s interests include Icons and the radiance found in art that overcomes time and place to support inner development.