"Art like life
is a journey, not just a destination, so enjoy the
trip. The process."
Jill
Segal's Newsletter
Fall 2011
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Dear Friends,
I hope you have been enjoying the warm summer days, and finding many opportunities for creative inspiration. Have you taken the time to sit quietly and observe “Mother Nature’s” marvelous palette, her wondrous sense of design, utilizing an infinite amount of colours shapes, lines and textures?
As artists we really are blessed to be able to see in a unique way and perceive the world around us with a special appreciation.
I want to give you an update of all the exciting things I have been involved with since the last newsletter, and to notify you about upcoming classes and workshops for the fall.
I am also including some of the scenes of inspiration that I have come across so far this summer. What joy!!!
TEACHING NEWS
This summer I taught two courses at The Haliburton School of the Arts. My usual Collage and Acrylic Explorations and a new course, Acrylic, Collage and Yoga, which I am very excited about.
In this class I started off with a demonstration, then facilitated an hour of Gentle Kripalu Yoga, including a meditation exercise related to the painting assignment for the day. This was followed by free painting time and we ended the day with some stretching, restorative yoga and relaxation.
I found this process enabled the students to relax, calm their minds, centre themselves, and to enter deeply into their own creative process. They produced very exciting, personal works of art and the yoga at the end of the day seemed to restore their energy and reduce body aches usually accompanying many hours of standing and painting.
My hope is to include yoga and meditation into more of my classes.
Once again my classes were filled with wonderful, enthusiastic, inspiring participants and we had fun and shared so many things from discussions on creativity, to an abundance of intriguing “stuff” that could be used as collage. (Never throw anything out; it may be a wonderful addition to your collage work.)
TheHaliburton School of the Arts is a wonderful facility, offering all kinds of interesting creative courses in all the arts. It is a hive of creative energy for six weeks during the summer. Everyone who attends finds the courses and environment fun-filled and stimulating. www.HaliburtonSchoolofTheArts.ca
TRAVEL NEWS
At the beginning of August I went on an amazing road trip, including a visit to "The Kripalu Centre for Yoga and Health", in the Berkshires, Massachusetts, then onto Cape Cod, and then finally Lubec, Maine, near the New Brunswick Border.
It was all very wonderful, and inspiring.
I loved the Kripalu Centre, where I participated in lots of yoga, meditation, interesting workshops, yoga dance, hiking, biking and amazing nourishing food and met so many like minded, creative people. As the USA’s largest and most established center for yoga and holistic living, The Kripalu Centre has been providing people tools for optimal living for more than 30 years. Every visit immerses you in an experiential curriculum designed to bring vitality to your life from the inside out. If you are looking for a place where you can relax, retreat, and renew yourself, I suggest you have a look at the website and programs offered. www.kripalu.org
In October/November I will be travelling to India, visiting many of the Buddhist Sacred Sites in North Central India. This is part of my life goal to visit and paint as many of the Sacred Sites of the world as possible. I have been inspired by photographer Courtney Milne who has spent years travelling the globe in a personal quest to discover sites that have held mystical and sacred importance for humanity from antiquity to the present day. He has published a beautiful book filled with his powerful images and his response to these places. “The Sacred Earth”
I look forward to sharing my experiences in another newsletter.
ART SHOWS
You can have a look at my first YouTube interview, filmed at my show at the Art Provo Gallery, in Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands, in March 2011.
Did you have the chance to see the exciting show at the Art Gallery of Ontario Abstract Expressionist New York? It was on until September 4th, I hope you got the chance to see it.
Drawn entirely from the Museum of Modern Art’s definitive collection, Abstract Expressionist New York featured more than 100 key works from Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Lee Krasner and others.
Jackson Pollack
The exhibition celebrates the monumental achievements of a generation of artists who catapulted New York to the centre of the international art world in the 1950s and left as their legacy some of the 20th century’s greatest masterpieces. Read more about it
I found it so exciting to see these paintings in their large original form. I have seen pictures of them in books which don’t really do them justice.
Mark Rothko
CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS
SESSION 1
A ) CREATIVE EXPLORATIONS WITH ACRYLIC AND COLLAGE (INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED)
Date: September 8 – October 13, 2011 (5 classes. No class September 29) Time: Thursdays 9:30am - 1:00pm Fee: $175 Location: My Studio
In this course we will explore creative expression, using acrylic (Fluid and heavy body) and collage. The focus for this session will be colour and design format. Teaching by demonstration, discussion, individual attention and critique. Students will also have the opportunity to work on their own independent projects if they want to.
Creativity, fun, uniqueness and personal expression will be emphasized.
SESSION 2
B) CREATIVE EXPLORATIONS WITH ACRYLIC AND COLLAGE (INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED) CONTINUED
Date:December 1, 8, 15, 2011 Time: Thursdays 9:30am - 3:30pm (Students can choose to come for the morning only, space permitting). Fee: $180 Location: My Studio
Register early as class sizes are limited. A deposit of $25 is required with registration.
CENTRAL ONTARIO ART ASSOCIATION WORKSHOP CREATIVE EXPLORATION WITH FLUID ACRYLICS AND COLLAGE
Dates: Saturday, September 24, and Sunday September 25, 2011 Time: 9L30am - 4:00pm Place: Milton Centre for the Arts,
South East corner of Main Street and Thompson Road, Milton Ontario Cost: $125 – early registration by August 1, 2011
$140 – registration after August 1, 2011
(Non member fee is $150—(Optional membership in FASM for this price) For registration and info email workshops@coaart.com
Register early as class sizes are limited. A deposit of $25 is required with registration.
WEBSITE AND FACEBOOK
Please check my website periodically for new paintings, and join me on facebook, so we can keep in touch and I can share my newest paintings and other news with you.
May there be peace in your hearts, your homes, your communities and on our planet.
May you be open to joy, laughter and creativity.
Blessings,
Jill
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Please contact me at Jill@jillsegal.com or 905-731-3834 if you are interested
in any of these classes.
This summer I taught two courses at The Haliburton School of the Arts. My usual Collage and Acrylic Explorations and a new course, Acrylic, Collage and Yoga, which I am very excited about.
