Mindfulness
and Nature
with Artist, Art Tutor, Certified Zentangle Teacher, and
Creativity Coach, Louise Gorst
Classes & Events
Welcome to Mindfully Creative, a synthesis of Creativity, Mindfulness & Nature. I offer a range of creative classes & courses including experimental drawing & painting, life drawing, Zentangle, mandala drawing & well-being walks. I also produce and sell my own original art work from my studio at Paddock Art Studios. I hope you enjoy exploring this site and look forward to hearing from you if you’d like to join me for any events or to buy some of my work.
Walking can help us re-connect with ourselves and nature and develop a sense of wholeness and peace that’s hard to find in our frequently hectic daily lives. A walk creates space to become very present with every step, breath, sight and sound as we explore the countryside in all seasons. I no longer run a programme of walks but can lead mindful walks for groups on request.
Experimental Drawing and Painting
Experimental Drawing and PaintingEnjoy exploring a range of experimental approaches to art through drawing, painting, collage, mixed media and mono-printing. Working from both observation and the imagination there will be guided exercises, an opportunity for individual projects and occasional collaborative work. These courses are suitable for beginners as well more experienced artists and offer the opportunity to widen your creative expression, address creative ‘blocks’ and encourage more spontaneity and mindfulness in making art.
Creative by Nature Days
Creative by Nature DaysEncouraging you to free up and discover how to tap in to your natural creative flow. Mainly practical in nature you will have the chance to explore different materials and techniques – drawing, painting, mono-printing, collage and pattern making. The days will incorporate short mindfulness practices to bring you into the NOW of being creative.
Dance & Draw
Dance & DrawCo-led with choreographer & dancer Virginia Farman
Entertaining the possibility that moving is drawing in space and drawing is dancing on the page, Dance & Draw will experiment with dancing and drawing as a method to liberate self- expression.
The day will weave together a variety of movement and drawing practices including 5 rhythms, mark-making with charcoal, painting with colour, witnessing & authentic movement. No previous experience of dancing or drawing required.
Life Drawing
Life DrawingEncouraging a natural and expressive approach to drawing the figure from life and learning to understand and relate to the human form through gesture, contour, texture and tone using a variety of media. Classes will introduce you to a range of techniques and approaches – some more classical and some more experimental – encouraging good observational skills as well as creative expression.
The Zentangle method is paradoxical and wonderful in the way the simple method that anyone can learn has the potential to open the gates to a flow of creativity and create a sense peace and relaxation. The method involves learning how to draw patterns one step at a time, with mindful attention, and put these patterns together to create beautiful images. The possibilities are endless!
I love to experiment with different approaches and media – printmaking, collage, drawing and painting – and thrive on the challenge of using contrast and variety in my work. I enjoy engaging with carefully and mindfully controlled pen strokes as much as working expressively and spontaneously with paint and mixed media. My current focus is exploring the repertoire & gesture of marks made by movement & dance inspired by music. I work very viscerally, spontaneously and directly with materials on paper.
What Our Clients Say
I had such a sense of achievement at the end!
I had such a sense of achievement at the end!I've still got beautiful images floating through my mind
I just wanted to say what an amazing time I had on the Chailey Trails walk, I've still got beautiful images floating through my mind. I really liked the group too and felt really comfortable with everyone and the poems were lovely. Walking in silence was a treasure for me and I'd love to spend more time out in nature doing this.Excellent time well spent
I so enjoyed our foraging walk yesterday. A beautiful setting for both nourishing information and tasty morsels from the hedgerows! Excellent time well spent with lovely people to chat to on the way.It's a much fuller experience
I really appreciate the chance to walk with others in a mediative silence, appreciating the sounds, sights and scents all around; it's a much fuller experience, somehow, than just strolling along chattering the whole time. (But of course, it's good to talk to other people for some of the time!)Thank you for the glorious walk
I just wanted to thank you for the glorious walk on Saturday afternoon ... and with such nice people. I really enjoyed myself and it cheered me up no end! I shall look forward to the next one.Particularly grateful for the balance of silence and social time
I enjoyed my morning out with Louise and the other walkers on a ramble across the South Downs. Louise's gentle presence encouraged us to be aware of our surroundings, and softly suggested some meditation for the walk. I was particularly grateful for the balance of silence and social time - too often hiking with a group means trading silence for companionship; how nice to have both! I look forward to discovering another corner of my neighborhood with Louise.Particularly grateful for the balance of silence and social time
It was wonderful to discover as a group that it's possible to appreciate the beauty of nature and feel inner stillness at the end of the walk.That walk at Isfield was magic
That walk at Isfield was magic. Thank you so much.Many thanks for the most enjoyable walk
Many thanks for the most enjoyable walk around Chailey on Saturday. I have driven past that area many times, but had not realised what beautiful and tranquil countryside lay away from the main road. I enjoyed the social aspects of the walk, but also the quiet times, at which point I really became aware of the birds singing and calling, and also the small, almost imperceptible noises of the woodland.I felt so good afterwards
Just to say Thank You for a lovely walk yesterday. I felt so good afterwards and it will spur me on to do other walks.A completely blissful day
We had a completely blissful day Foraging by the Sea - it was one of the nicest days we've had for ages. So thanks very much indeed - and thank Anna too - she was outstandingly informative! It was really interesting. Thanks again.I can think back on that wonderful day and treasure it
Thank you for the list of berries from our Hedgerow Harvest walk. As I sit and see the rain pouring outside I can think back on that wonderful day and treasure it for the wintery days ahead; it was such a treat.I feel much more relaxed today and grounded, centred,
I don't know if it is my imagination but I do feel much more relaxed today and grounded, centred, call it what you will. It was a lovely day and I'm so pleased I decided to book for the Yoga & Walking Retreat. I look forward to similar days to build on some of the good reflections I had whilst in that wonderfully held space yesterday.Lovely people, new horizons
I loved the muddy walk yesterday. Lovely people, new horizons and time to think or try not toExcellent time well spent
I so enjoyed our foraging walk yesterday. A beautiful setting for both nourishing information and tasty morsels from the hedgerows! Excellent time well spent with lovely people to chat to on the way.
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