SPRING 2025

IN PRAISE OF TREES

A series of four Art and Prayer workshops.

JAN- APRIL 2025

TUESDAY MORNINGS 10AM – 1PM

WEDNEDSDAY MORININGS 10AM – 1PM

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. 

GROUP SERIES:Tuesdays: 28th Jan/ 25th Feb / 25th Mar/ 29th April 2025. 10am-1pm (9.45 registration) GMT. WORKSHOPS FULL

INDIVIDUAL WORKSHOPS: Wednesdays: 29th Jan/  26th Feb / 26th Mar/ 30th April 2025. 10am-1pm (9.45 PM registration) GMT. WORKSHOPS FULL

Series of 4 workshops: Full price £140.00, Conc. £120.00 for workshop series

Individual workshops: Full price £35, Conc. £30 per workshop 

Wk1. GENESIS 1. CREATION: IN PRAISE OF TREES

‘A tree gives glory to God by being a tree’ Thomas Merton. 

Genesis 1: 29- 31
Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so…God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.

Tuesday 28th   January – Group series Wk. 1. 10am-1pm (9.45 registration) GMT
Wednesday 29th    January – Individual Workshop. 10am-1pm (9.45 registration) GMT

Wk 2. CALLED TO BE LIKE TREES

Psalm 1: 3 
‘They shall be like a tree
Planted by the rivers of water,
That brings forth its fruit in its season.’ 

Tuesday 25th  February –  Group series Wk.2. 10am-1pm (9.45 registration) GMT
Wednesday 26th  February  – Individual Workshop. 10am-1pm (9.45 registration) GM

Wk 3.  I WILL TURN ASIDE TO SEE A GREAT SIGHT. 

Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.” Exodus 3.3. 
‘We imagine the Divine as distant and inaccessible, whereas in fact we live steeped in its burning layers’. Teilhard de Chardin
What holiness do we miss when we fail to take time to notice what is around us?

Tuesday 25th March  –  Group series Wk.3. 10am-1pm (9.45 registration) GMT
Wednesday 26th March  – Individual Workshop. 10am-1pm (9.45 registration) GMT

Wk 4. CHRIST THE VINE

A deeply relational symbol of connectedness. We are called to be branches rooted in the Vine which is Christ, the fullest expression of divine love, which in turn is rooted in the love of God the gardener. As branches rooted in these, we are connected to one another in love, in Christ, and to all that is. 

Tuesday 29th April  – Group series Wk.4. 10am-1pm (9.45 registration) GMT
Wednesday 30th  April – Individual Workshop. 10am-1pm (9.45 registration) GMT

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

To be informed of future workshops please sign up to the mailing list: https://soulmarks.us18.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=fac21c6c83d0c7e3e1fd94ffb&id=3471228dd9

Private Group Workshops

The majority of ‘previous workshops’ are  available for a group (independent or church). To book as a private online workshop or to discuss details and possible dates and times please contact Carol: 

carol@soulmarks.co.uk

Cost per group £180

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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