Deepen your art practice through mandala painting and art as meditation.

Beginning in stillness, you'll paint your first mandala – a geometrically stable form that grounds both your composition and your practice.

In this module, you'll:

• Create a symmetrically stable mandala using paint, a compass, and a full palette of colour.

• Explore what stability feels like in the body – and how that translates into mark-making.

• Work with objects from your surroundings as anchors for a second, observation-based mandala.

Moving from stability into its opposite, you'll discover what happens when you release controlled symmetry and let something more dynamic emerge.

Along the way, you'll:

• Paint an asymmetrical mandala divided into three unequal parts.

• Explore the relationship between symmetry, balance, and the energy of a composition.

• Develop awareness of your colour instincts and how they shift from one session to the next.

Using the life cycle of a plant as both subject and meditation, you'll move from close observation into something more alive and representational.

Through this module, you'll:

• Work from direct observation of seeds, sprouts, and flowers to build three connected mandalas.

• Explore how growth, change, and impermanence can be expressed through mark-making and colour.

• Notice the relationship between looking carefully at a living thing and the quality of attention you bring to the page.

Turning from the natural world to the human body, you'll explore the surprising territory where biology and machine meet.

You'll explore how to:

• Meditate on cell division and the body's inner logic before picking up a brush.

• Create two mandalas that move between the body as machine and the machine as body.

• Work with layering and structure to express ideas that resist easy visualisation.

Drawing on the four sensing functions – emotional, thinking, intuitive, and physical – you'll build the most personal and internally guided set of mandalas in the course.

Across this module, you'll:

• Create four mandalas from the different ways you take in the world.

• Choose an object that connects to your own sensing experience and use it as a guide.

• Bring all four functions together into a fifth, integrated mandala.

   

Now, let’s go large! Scale forms a playground for intuitive experiments in technique. Through this process, you’ll explore contrast, repetition, and composition, uncovering surprising and dynamic images.

You'll gain:

• Techniques for balancing lines, planes, light, dark, and scale.

• Understanding of layering, contrast, and complementary colours.

• Skills in cropping, finishing, and refining large-format work.
  

Moving between a garden you have known and one you can only dream of, you'll practise the shift from observation to imagination – and bring both together.

In this module, you'll:

• Paint a real garden from memory, sensation, and atmosphere.
• Create an ideal garden that follows instinct and feeling rather than observation.
• Integrate both into a third mandala where memory and imagination coexist.

Closing the journey with light itself, you'll explore the contrast between radiant warmth and cool reflection – and find your own way of seeing it.

You'll explore how to:

• Work with warm, expansive colour to capture the quality of sunlight moving outward.

• Respond to the quieter, more atmospheric light of the moon.

• Observe and interpret light reflected on water – translating tone, movement, and stillness into paint.