AUTUMN 2025

Trees are given importance throughout the bible, from the Edenic garden in Genesis to the New Jerusalem in Revelation. They are described as wonderous gifts of creation and are the sources of a myriad of symbols and metaphors from great oaks to fig trees. This new series of workshops will explore the wonder of trees, their vital importance in our eco-sysytem and how they speak to us of our God and our faith.
 
Participants can sign up for all four workshops as a series (Tuesday mornings) thus creating an ongoing group or as individual workshops (Wednesday mornings or Thursday evenings). Places are limited to 8 persons per workshop. 

Series of 4 workshops: Please note our process have increased costs are now:

Full price £160.00, Conc. £140.00 for workshop series

 Individual workshops: Full price £40, Conc. £35 per workshop 

GROUP SERIES: Tuesdays: 23rd Sept/ 21st Oct/ 18th Nov/ 9th Dec 2025. 10am-1pm (9.45 registration) GMT. FULL

INDIVIDUAL WORKSHOPS: Wednesdays: 24th Sept/ 22nd Oct/ 19th Nov/ 10th Dec 2025. 10am-1pm (9.45 PM registration) GMT

INDIVIDUAL WORKSHOPS: Extra December date for Advent Thursday Evening 11th Dec 2025. 6pm-9pm (5.45 PM registration) GMT. (This is a repeat of the 9th and 10th Dec. workshops, not a different workshop! ) PLACES LEFT

Wk1. THE TREE OF LIFE

The Tree of Life has much to offer us for reflection. It stands firmly at the beginning of the bible in the garden of Eden and again in the New Jerusalem in Revelation, sprouting leaves for the healing of the nations. In Proverbs it is likened to wisdom, justice and righteousness. 

Tuesday 23rd September – Group series Wk.1. 10am-1pm (9.45 registration) GMT FULL

Wednesday 24th September – Individual Workshop. 10am-1pm (9.45 registration) GMT

Wk 2. THE LARGEST OF SHRUBS

The parable of the mustard seed is told in Matthew, Mark and Luke, likening it to the Kingdom of God. From the tiniest of seeds comes the largest of shrubs, sprawling everywhere, and providing shelter for the birds of the air

Tuesday 21st October –  Group series Wk.2. 10am-1pm (9.45 registration) GMT FULL

Wednesday 22nd October  – Individual Workshop. 10am-1pm (9.45 registration) GM PLACES LEFT

Wk 3.  THE OLIVE TREE. 

The olive tree first appears in Genesis 8:11 when the dove returns with an olive leaf after the great flood, a symbol of restoration, reconciliation and peace. The mention of the olive tree and its fruit then continues to occur throughout the whole of scripture with a depth of meanings and associations to explore

Tuesday 18th November  –  Group series Wk.3. 10am-1pm (9.45 registration) GMT FULL

Wednesday 19th November   – Individual Workshop. 10am-1pm (9.45 registration) GMT FULL

Wk 4. THE JESSE TREE

 Isaiah 11:1: “A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots.” This is a prophecy, a promise of new life, of hope, a fore-telling of Jesus, the Messiah. The Jesse Tree is the ancestral tree of Jesus, the line of David, of which through Christ, we are all descendants, we are all called to be part of the story. 

Tuesday 9th December – Group series Wk.4. 10am-1pm (9.45 registration) GMT FULL

Wednesday 10th December  – Individual Workshop. 10am-1pm (9.45 registration) GMT FULL

Thursday Evening 11th Dec 2025. 6pm-9pm (5.45 PM registration) GMT PLACES LEFT

Materials

Basic art materials as below unless otherwise stated.

• A range of colour and black and white materials in the media of your choice:
  • e.g. coloured pencils/ pastels /paints
• A range of papers and sizes:
  • If working with coloured pencils, paint or oil pastels white cartridge paper or similar is preferable.
  • If you choose to work with chalk pastels you may want to work on a black or coloured sheet of sugar paper if you have any
  • Alternatively use any thing you can find – brown parcel paper, lining paper, cardboard etc.

To reserve a place on the workshops please email: Carol@soulmarks.co.uk

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Art and Prayer: An interview: Early in 2022 Carol was interviewed about Art and Prayer by Fiona Fidgin (Fidge), Learning and Development Officer at The Methodist Church.

I mentioned Joyce Cheverton in the above interview. Joyce introduced me to using art as a tool for prayer for the first time in on a Holy Week Art Retreat that she led alongside her husband David in 1992 on Iona at Bishops House. This was the starting point of my own journey using and offering the Art and Prayer workshops that I have now been leading for over 20 years.

Joyce, was born in Harrow in 1920, she had started creating art from an earlier age and continued to do so throughout her life produce artworks into her late 90’s. She married David Cheverton, an architect, who became a Church of England vicar. They were the parents of Mark Cheverton, who along with his wife Charlotte founded Leith School of Art. 

‘Previous Art and Prayer workshops can be found here. http://www.soulmarks.co.uk/online-workshops/previous-workshops/

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