Short course
Mindfulness Art Intensive Short Course
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Course description
Course overview
This immersive, studio-based short course uses art making as a practical way to explore emotions, attention, and embodied awareness. Across five structured days, you will combine guided mindfulness exercises with sketchbook studies, painting and mixed media demonstrations and supported studio time. Each day introduces a distinct theme, from emotional intelligence and intention setting to somatic mapping, Zen inspired mark making, and more than human imagination, leading to a final day of integration through collaboration.
You will be guided through methods for translating inner experience into visual language, using colour, repetition, rhythm, texture, gesture, layering and reflective editing. Alongside making, you will explore a curated set of artists and art movements as prompts for discussion and inspiration, and you will take part in gentle, structured group critiques that build confidence in speaking about your process as well as your creative outputs.
This is a face-to-face retreat atmosphere inside the art studio: calm, focused, and encouraging, designed for anyone seeking a renewed relationship with creativity, a sustainable making rhythm, and a practical toolkit for mindfulness-led artmaking you can continue beyond the course.
Who this course is for
This course is aimed at:
- Beginners who want a welcoming entry point into art making through guided prompts, simple techniques, and supportive structure
- Artists and creatives who want to reconnect with their inner creatives, build confidence in risk-taking, and develop new approaches to their creative process
- Professionals who want practical tools for attention, reflection, and resilience, using artmaking as a focused, restorative practice
- Beginner to intermediate level
No previous experience is required. Students should be willing to experiment with art making processes, work in a group studio environment, and participate in accessible mindfulness exercises, gentle reflection and mediated group discussion.
Key information
Topics covered
- Mindfulness-led painting, intention, attention, and studio rhythm
- Emotional intelligence through colour, repetition, and reflective process
- Somantic mapping, body scan visualisation, and texture as sensation
- Breath-led mark making, Zen silence, circle and line, calligraphic fields
- More than human imagination, nature-based prompts and collaborative integration
Learning outcomes
- Use simple mindfulness exercises to prepare for making, sustain attention, somatic balance and notice emotional states without judgement
- Translate inner experience into visual choices using colour, rhythm, repetition, texture, and gesture
- Create a set of sketchbook studies that include mantra writing, body mapping, breath-led line work, and symbolic visual research
- Apply a toolkit of creative approaches, including mark making, gesture-based painting, zen calligraphy, collage and mixed media
- Speak about process with more clarity and confidence through structured group critique, focusing on intention, sensation, and decision-making
- Produce a small body of finished artworks, plus an integration plan for how to continue mindfulness-led art making after the course
- Digital badge and certificate of attendance
Materials
- Sketchbook (A4 or A3)
- Notebook journal (A5 or A4)
- Pen
- Folder for loose studies
- Comfortable clothing suitable for painting, plus an apron if you have one
- A water bottle
- Any preferred brushes and mediums you enjoy using if you have them
Recommended materials:
- A small personal reference object for meaning making, talisman (optional)
Tutor
R.M. Sánchez-Camus
R.M. Sánchez-Camus (Marcelo) is a creative practitioner whose research interests include audience interaction, embodied mythologies, mindfulness, legacy, and spatial imagination. Marcelo is the co-founder of Social Art Network and recently co-convened the Social Art Summit in Sheffield in developing the world's first Social Art Biennial. He has extensive experience in arts & health with a focus on arts as a therapeutic intervention in the dying process and can be heard on BBC Radio 4 Four Thought podcast. He holds a BA in Fine Art from School of Visual Arts, NYC an MA in Scenography from Central Saint Martins UAL and a PhD in Social Practice from Brunel University, London.Book a course
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