Events

Upcoming Events

Contact nicolette@wingshadowstudios.com for information regarding the workshops offered in LaConner and Seattle.

Workshops

Each three hour workshops focuses on techniques of visual journaling as therapy for those going through difficult life experiences. Nicolette Harrington provides exercises to promote healing through drawing and printmaking that encourage expression, observation, and reflection.

Engaging with art leads us to better lives because:

  • Art helps us keep important thoughts that get lost.

  • Art makes memorable our best insights that become accessible and can be shared.

  • Art can offer hopeful images and optimism that can help determine outcome.

  • Art equips us with empathy as we deal with suffering and find dignity.

  • Art can identify what is hard to put into words.

  • Art provides eloquent ways to understand ideas that enrich us.

  • Art helps us recover our sensitivity that can elude us.

  • Art can expand sense of self when we are not good at explaining who we are.

 

Memory, growth, hope, self-understanding, appreciation…

reason after reason to sign up for a workshop.

Past Events

Steam Roller Printing 

Anacortes Arts Festival 2011-2016

These large linoleum block prints were possible due to the cooperation and effort of 18 artists and many volunteers. “Choose Your Path” was an invitation for others to walk into a cedar forest to reconnect mind, body, and spirit. Concepts of infinity were carved into the flock of snow geese taking flight in “Write Peace on Their Wings” when my cancer was in remission, wanting to go out into the world and assist healing. Each block has been related to work that has resulted in the publication of Draw A Line.

Stone Labyrinths in Gotland, Sweden

Stone labyrinths can be found throughout Sweden. My husband, friends, and I walked one of the oldest on the island of Gotland (which is in the Baltic Sea) outside the walled city of Visby known as Trojeborg (Troy Castle). It was created on the flat ground below Gallows Hill facing the sea.

We found a restored labyrinth in the courtyard of Frojel Church. Another we found by chance as we went for a beach walk. 

Images are of St Karin in Visby, Bergman Center on Faro, Slite, and Gotland Museum

If you experience a labyrinth, the meanders lead you through a winding path leading inward and then suddenly outward but eventually to the center. Once you reach the center, it is difficult to find your way out. Walking a labyrinth is a devotional ritual if one allows time to receive insight. Walking a labyrinth path provides opportunity to emerge able to respond more naturally and open to the beauty beyond. Just slowing down to choose the next step lowers mental barriers. Stone mazes located along the shore are known to have been used by sailors going to sea to guard against possible dangers in unknown realms. Can salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea cure most anything? 

The stone labyrinth drawn for the cover of Draw A Line is at Lindbacke in southeast Sweden.

June 2016

Community Concert and Art Auction

Raised over $5,000 to print Draw A Line.

Important thanks to all the sponsors, artists, and volunteers that have made the sketchbook a reality, heartfelt thanks to How It Works in Anacortes, WA for putting on the event.