Scan Painting & Pregnancy Relaxation Evening
At the beginning of August, I ran the first ever scan painting and pregnancy relaxation evening with the ever so lovely Danielle.
Danielle runs Artventurers Wakefield East & the Five Towns. Her day to day classes are aimed at babies and toddlers, to introduce them to art and messy play and are absolutely brilliant. But Danielle herself is an amazing artist, and makes stunning artwork in many different forms. She created the Empowerment Project during the first lockdown, and encouraged loads of breastfeeding mum's to make prints of their boobs to make a big piece of art to promote breastfeeding and raise some money for FAB Wakefield.
She also makes the most beautiful ultrasound keepsakes. I have three of them, one of each of my kids ultrasound and I adore them.
When Danielle asked me if I'd like to run an evening for pregnant ladies with her it was an absolute no brainer for me.
We decided that together we would host an evening for you to come and relax, switch off from the world for a little bit, and flex your creative muscles.
A time for you to bond with baby a little before they are born, and spoil yourself. And that is exactly what we did.
Just a few weeks later we opened the doors of ARTspace in Normanton to welcome our first group of mum's to be.
It was an absolutely brilliant evening, we could not have asked for a nicer bunch of ladies to join for our first evening.
We started the evening off with an opening circle, a chance to say hello to each other, get to know everyone a little bit and then settle into the evening with a quick body scan. These are my favourite way to help you let go of the stress of the day and really tune into the now.
After that Danielle took the reins and shared her skills with everyone, teaching us all, including me, how to paint their own piece of art. Danielle prepared the discs with an image made from the ultrasound scan photos of the ladies joining us, and then we decorated them using the acrylic paints and techniques Danielle showed us.
Whilst we painted we all had a good old chin wag, shared stories and advice and got to know each other a bit better. We had some mum’s having their first baby, and others on their second. We ate delicious snacks, and drank yummy pretend fizz and just generally enjoyed each other's company.
Once everyone had created their own beautiful keepsakes and eaten their fill of snacks we all moved onto the floor. The ladies got themselves comfy with lots of pillows and blankets and then I led them on a guided relaxation. Half an hour of utter bliss, a time to switch off from the world and totally relax into their body and appreciate the miracle of life that they are growing
Once the evening was over, and we’d sent the ladies on their way, we decided immediately that we were going to host another evening as it was so much fun. The very next day we released the date for our next session because we couldn't wait to do it all over again and welcome some more of you into the ARTspace for another evening of creativity and relaxation.
If it sounds like something you’d love to be a part of, you can find all the details for upcoming evenings here.