Learning from Children’s Drawings About the Hidden Language of Art: Visual Meaning in the History of Art, Nature and Human Consciousness

This workshop will explore the archetypal language of children’s drawings and the dynamic patterns of early art forms, through slide-lecture demonstrations and practical artistic work, in order to appreciate the unique, meaning-filled, expressive power of visual artistic forms. Through these picture-symbols, we will visit different epoch’s of human experience and consciousness, particularly in regard to spiritual experience.

Oct 18^th Saturday: Workshop with Artistic Exercises

9:30 – 11:00: Lecture demonstration & artistic work

11:00- 11:30: Break

11:30- 13:00: Lecture demonstration and artistic work

13:00 – 14:00: Lunch

14:00- 15:30: Artistic work

15:30- 16:00: Conclusion

Venue: Garden House Silverstrand Shopping Centre. 7 Silverstrand Beach Road. Clearwater Bay.

香港 清水灣 銀線灣道 7號 銀線灣商場（坑口地鐵站 A1出口，坐的士約3分鐘）

Cost: $480-HK

Presenter: Van James, a Hawai’i based artist, author and teacher; is a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute, Emerson College in England, and the Goetheanum Painting School in Switzerland. He teaches art at the Honolulu Waldorf High School, and Kula Makua --Waldorf Teacher Training program, and is a guest instructor at Taurna College in New Zealand, Rudolf Steiner College in California, and Chengdu Teacher Training in China. He is editor of Pacifica Journal, and chairman of the Anthroposophical Society in Hawai’i. He is author of several books including Spirit and Art: Pictures of the Transformation of Consciousness, and The Secret Language of Form: Visual Meaning in Art and Nature.

www.vanjames.smugmug.com