Unlock Your Creativity: Emotions on Canvas
On an early winter afternoon, we gathered at Romulus Folio for ‘Unlock Your Creativity: Emotions on Canvas’ a workshop designed to explore the landscape of feeling through colour, texture, and movement.
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We began with gentle breathing exercises and reflective prompts, guiding participants to map their internal states in three colours with associated sensations or meanings across 40cm x 50cm canvases. From there, palette knives became the tool of expression, replacing words with broad, intuitive gestures.
Some chose bold, contrasting colours to express conflicting emotions; others worked with soft layering and complementary tones, blending with white to explore subtle emotional nuance. There was no right or wrong, only authentic expression.
What emerged were paintings full of tension and tenderness, struggle and surrender, soft and subtle. Abstract, yet deeply felt. The process, more than the outcome, was the heart of the experience.
We closed in an open, unhurried way, allowing participants to finish at their own pace. Those who completed earlier relaxed and chatted in the gallery space. One father shared the experience with his two children, it was moving to witness their connection as they created side by side, each immersed in their own process, yet together.
We don’t ask participants to share the stories behind their paintings due to the emotional nature of the experience. But their stories are felt, coded in colour, gesture, and form. Sometimes individuals do share privately how their painting evolved from the initial meditation through to the final strokes. What matters is that each painting becomes a deeply personal artefact: a memory of who they were and how they felt in that moment.
At Romulus Folio, these workshops aren’t just about technique. They are invitations into deeper connection; with self, with process, and with each other. And June 8 was no exception.
Join us in our next workshop with available spots:
Saturday 26 July 2025
3:00 pm 5:00 pm
GROUND FLOOR, TOWER B LOBBY AT THE GLADSTONE, LOCATED AT 15-85 GLADSTONE STREET, SOUTH MELBOURNE, 3205.
https://www.romulusfolio.com.au/events/expressing-inner-wild