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#coolingoff💦 with #vermeer #contemplation #sl

#coolingoff💦 with #vermeer

#contemplation #slowlooking #mindfullooking
#mindfulcooldown

Final preparations underway for this masterclass @

Final preparations underway for this masterclass @karlykallen is delivering for @thinkingmuseum tomorrow -
We’ve loved the creative space that has been opened up by this invitation to explore mindfulness and drawing in response to the Mona Lisa… come along and join the conversation - the event is open to all. Booking link in bio and below - 19 July at 16:00 UK time.

“Is it possible to look at the Mona Lisa with fresh eyes, as if for the first time?

How might mindful drawing approaches allow us to observe and move beyond our habitual patterns of looking and thinking?

This masterclass offers an experimental space to explore drawing and mindfulness, with Leonardo’s iconic painting as our focus.

We’ll start with a discussion around drawing as a tool for looking at art, and the experience of engaging with a uniquely well-known image. You’ll then be guided through a short mindfulness practice in preparation for close observation. Encouraging presence and flow, you’ll be invited to respond to a sequence of mark-making prompts, using pencil on paper. We’ll end by joining together to reflect on how our relationship with the Mona Lisa shifted as we spent time with the picture in this way.

• Use simple drawing tools to explore your sensory experience of sight and touch while practising attentive looking
• Cultivate what is described as ‘beginner’s mind’ – an attitude of openness and curiosity, unclouded by what we think we already know
• Experience how mindfulness approaches can help with self-critical thoughts which can arise in relation to making drawings – freeing you up to draw for enjoyment and enquiry

Suitable for all, no previous experience of drawing or mindfulness required.”

https://thinkingmuseum.com/live-masterclasses/

#masterclass #thinkingmuseum #mindfulmuseum #mindfulness #mindfullooking #mindfullookingatart #monalisa #leonardodavinci #slowlooking #museumed #museumlearning

This week we were happy to come across @wearejustl

This week we were happy to come across @wearejustlooking - we recommend their newsletter for mindful looking posts, reading lists, challenges and more. Enjoy!
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The Limina Collective team
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#recommended #bookstagram #recommendedreading #follow #mindfullooking #slowlooking #mindfulphotography #mindfulness #photography

https://wearejustlooking.org/

Remembering moments of wonder in front of Paula Re

Remembering moments of wonder in front of Paula Rego’s pastels #fiercedrawing
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Image: Paula Rego, ‘Looking Out’, 1997 (detail), pastel on paper
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#paularego #pastel #pasteldrawing #wonder #lookingout #drawing

We can’t wait to be back delivering in-person wo

We can’t wait to be back delivering in-person workshops at the British Library again. Our next Masterclass Weekend (18-19 June) takes a close look at sculptures inside the Library and outside in the Piazza. We’ll be exploring mindfulness themes of presence, kindness and letting go, and making drawings in front of the sculptures and back in the studio.
Tickets still available (see our linktree) - join us for a restorative weekend of mindfulness practice, experimental drawing, and a deepened experience of looking at sculptures by artists including Barbara Hepworth and Anthony Gormley.
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Image: a participant sets out their drawing materials at our British Library masterclass in December 2019
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#sculpture #britishlibrary #drawing #artcourse #drawingcourse #mindfulness #mindfuldrawing #drawingasmeditation #lookingatsculpture #anthonygormley #barbarahepworth
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https://www.bl.uk/events/drawing-and-mindfulness-masterclass-sculpture-and-space

Making clay objects with mindfulness this week, at

Making clay objects with mindfulness this week, at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace. Creating an oasis of calm for adults and families to sit, draw and explore themes from the exhibition ‘Japan: Courts and Culture’. Thank you to Royal Collection Trust for inviting us to develop these mindful family learning sessions.
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Images: objects made with participants by pressing natural forms into clay; stills from the exhibition film projected in silence in the same space.
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#familylearning #kidsinmuseums #familyfriendly #familywellness #familymindfulness #mindfulfamily #museumlearning #museumed #royalcollection #japan #mindfulness #mindfulmaking #artsmatter

Happy #internationalmuseumday2022 . Here’s Davi

Happy #internationalmuseumday2022
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Here’s David Chipperfield contemplating the spaces of Berlin’s rebuilt Neues Museum, opened in 2009
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Longitudinal section, 2008 (detail) @royalacademyarts
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#architecture #contemporaryarchitecture #berlin #design #drawing #architecturaldrawing #royalacademyofarts #london #neuesmuseum

Yes! The Wallace Collection is offering free mindf

Yes! The Wallace Collection is offering free mindfulness events for Creativity & Wellbeing Week, on their theme of ‘Get Creative, Get Outdoors’
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Limina Collective is delighted to be partnering with the Wallace again this year, to deliver three sessions:
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• Looking with Mindfulness (Tues 17 May)
• Drawing with Mindfulness (Weds 18 May)
• Writing with Mindfulness (Thurs 19 May)
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All events are via Zoom, free to book (see Linktree), and offer a mindful, creative space to be in the landscape of Dutch painting.
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Each session includes a Limina Collective guided audio for taking a mindful walk outdoors in your own landscape afterwards.
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We hope to see you online - please share with friends and family 🙂
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https://www.wallacecollection.org/whats-on/creativity-wellbeing-week-looking-with-mindfulness/

https://www.wallacecollection.org/whats-on/creativity-wellbeing-week-drawing-with-mindfulness/

https://www.wallacecollection.org/whats-on/creativity-wellbeing-week-writing-with-mindfulness/

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#creativityandwellbeingweek #getcreativegetoutside #creativity #wallacecollection #mindfulness #mindfullooking #lookingatart #slowlooking #slowlookingatart #londonart #drawing #mindfuldrawing #museumlearning #museumeducators #oldmasterpaintings #dutchgoldenage #dutchpainting #landscape #landscapes #mindfulwalking @wallacemuseum @yb_lucia @karlykallen

📬 Our latest newsletter has just arrived in our

📬 Our latest newsletter has just arrived in our subscribers’ inboxes - if you haven’t joined yet, see our Linktree to sign up today ✍️ - our monthly newsletter includes a round-up of our upcoming events, as well as giveaways and news from the field of mindfulness and art.
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We love to see our community of mindful art-observers grow each month - thank you for all your engagement, suggestions and feedback along the way.
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Warm wishes,

The Limina Collective Team
@yb_lucia @karlykallen
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Newsletter sign-up:

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#newsletter #friends #keepintouch #mail #manchesterartgallery @mcrartgallery #wallacecollection @wallacemuseum @andrewnelson79 #britishlibrary @britishlibrary @culturekaty @mindful_museums #community #mindfulness #connection #news @yb_lucia @karlykallen

We’ve enjoyed following Oliver Burkeman’s inve

We’ve enjoyed following Oliver Burkeman’s investigations into the human experience of finitude and presence: including his experiment with spending 3 hours simply looking at one painting by Degas. Following the guidance of @jenniferrrrrroberts at Harvard University, Burkeman writes about his experience of prolonged slow looking in a gallery, the emergence of patience, and the unfolding of ‘the scene in all its sensory fullness’.
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‘Your reward… is to achieve, at last, a real sense of purchase on reality - of really *getting stuck in* to life.’
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How can mindfulness techniques support this practice of deep looking at art? Join our mailing list to follow our work and we hope to see you at an event soon.
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Image: Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, ‘Cotton Merchants in New Orleans’, 1873, Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Herbert N. Straus
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#fourthousandweeks #oliverburkeman #lookingatart #mindfullooking #slowlooking #slowlookingatart #readingrecommendations #bookrecommendations #timemanagement #art #mindfulness #degas #gallery
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👏 We love this invitation to take a quiet pause

👏 We love this invitation to take a quiet pause while visiting the exhibition ‘Japan: Courts & Culture’ at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace. A beautifully-staged exhibition, with room to breathe and restore.
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Limina’s @karlykallen will lead mindful drawing sessions for families and young visitors to this exhibition during Half Term: Thursday 2 and Friday 3 June, link in bio.
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#londonart #london #exhibition #japan #royalcollectiontrust #thequeensgallery #japaneseart #exhibitiondesign #gallerywall #gallery #mindfulmuseums #wellbeing

Preparing for ‘Sketchbook Saturday: Mindful Paus

Preparing for ‘Sketchbook Saturday: Mindful Pauses’, an online event for the National Gallery this Saturday 🍓
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“Take a mindful approach to looking and drawing, in this session led by Karly Allen. Starting with a short mindfulness practice, you’ll be guided to notice the gaps in between shapes in paintings, where we experience a visual pause. Making drawings to explore and expand these spaces, we’ll take mindful pauses to encourage a greater sense of ease and connection as we draw.”
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(This event is now fully booked - please join the Limina Collective mailing list to hear about similar upcoming events - link in bio):

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Image: Jan Jansz. Treck, ‘Still Life with a Pewter Flagon and Two Ming Bowls’, 1651 (detail), The National Gallery
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#nationalgallery #london #dutchpainting #stilllife #stilllifepainting #netherlands #painting #drawing #mindfuldrawing #mindfulness #mindfullooking #lookingatart #arthistory #gallery

📣🎧 [sound on!] We’re excited to announce o

📣🎧 [sound on!] We’re excited to announce our first in-gallery mindful audios to be available in Manchester Art Gallery’s ‘Room to Breathe’ exhibition - opening this Saturday 2 April. Visitors will be invited to listen to our 5-minute recordings by scanning a QR code in front of the paintings. Both recordings are also available on their website - see our bio for link.
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Heartfelt thanks to @mindful_museums for commissioning these audios, giving us the opportunity to contribute to this beautifully selected and staged exhibition, one in a series at MAG with mindfulness principles threaded through every aspect of the exhibition. It’s been a pleasure to work with you on these audios. Really looking forward to experiencing the exhibition and to further collaborations coming up later in the year.
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#roomtobreathe #manchesterartgallery #museum @mcrartgallery #gallery #artgallery #museumeducation #museumed #museumlearning #exhibition #artaudio #mindfullooking #mindfulness #slowlooking #slowlookingatart #galleryinterpretation @yb_lucia @karlykallen
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https://manchesterartgallery.org/exhibitions-and-events/exhibition/room-to-breathe/

Slow Art Day 2022 #slowartday 🐌🎉 We’re joi

Slow Art Day 2022 #slowartday 🐌🎉
We’re joining 100s of museums, galleries and arts organisations offering ‘slow looking’ opportunities to mark Slow Art Day on Saturday 2 April - a global movement to slow down and take time with art.
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We’ll start the day with 30 minutes of slow, attentive looking at a painting by Rembrandt - join us on Zoom, 10:30am (UK), tickets £5, link in bio.
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Later in April, Limina’s @yb_lucia is offering 60 minutes of slow looking and mindful engagement through writing. Monday 25 April, 13:00 (UK), tickets from £10.
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We hope to see you at an event in April - join our mailing list (link in bio) to hear about upcoming events in our monthly newsletter, including an announcement of new free events coming soon.
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https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pause-look-relax-tickets-261843058637
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Image: Clara Peeters, ‘Still Life with Flowers Surrounded by Insects and a Snail’, c. 1610 (detail), National Gallery of Art, Washington
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#slowartday2022 #slowart #slowliving #snail #clarapeeters #dutchart #dutchpainting #celebrate #slowlooking #slowlookingatart #mindfullooking #mindfuness @slowartday

Coming up: tomorrow, Tuesday 29 March, 6pm (UK tim

Coming up: tomorrow, Tuesday 29 March, 6pm (UK time) - we’ll be using mindfulness approaches to look closely at a painting by Corot and drawing on paper as we look. We’d love you to join us.
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To mark the changing of the clocks in the UK this week, our theme is ‘time’: we’ll be tuning into the rhythm and pace of our drawing, and moving through the four times of day suggested by Corot’s painting.
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Tickets are £10 for this hour-long session delivered on Zoom. Facilitated by Limina’s @karlykallen. All welcome, no experience of drawing or mindfulness needed. Booking details in bio.
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https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pause-look-relax-draw-tickets-261845967337
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#drawing #landscape #corot #painting #mindfulness #mindfuldrawing #drawingworkshop #meditation #mindfulnesspractice #mindfulliving #slowlooking #closelooking #mindfullooking #lookingatart

Using mindfulness principles for looking at art al

Using mindfulness principles for looking at art allows us to:
• steady and calm the wandering mind
• bring close attention to the artwork and our own responses to it
• approach the artwork with curiosity and openness
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Our next online event - Monday 28 Feb, 1pm GMT - follow the link in bio and join us for 60 minutes to engage deeply with an artwork through mindful looking. The session is led by Limina’s @yb_lucia and invites you to connect to a painting by responding to short writing prompts. All welcome, no previous experience needed. Tickets from £10.
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Join our mailing list (link in bio) to hear more about upcoming events and news from the developing field of mindfulness and art observation.
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Image: Mary Cassatt, ‘In the Lodge’, 1878, @mfaboston (detail)
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#writing #creativewriting #mindfulwriting #mindfulwritingworkshop #lookingatart #mindfulness #meditation #marycassatt #cassatt #mindfullooking #slowlooking #slowlookingatart #slowart

📣 New collaboration! The Conduit is an inspirin

📣 New collaboration! The Conduit is an inspiring space in Covent Garden, filled with light, life and great art. For our first in-person workshop at the Conduit, we’re offering a 90-minute ‘Introduction to Mindful Drawing’, in response to slow, attentive looking at artworks on display. Sat 5 March, part of their programme of ‘Self Care Saturdays’.
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Booking available now, and open to all (no need to be a member of the Conduit): tickets £30 (link in bio)
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#theconduitlondon @theconduitlondon #coventgarden #london #londonlife #workshop #mindfulness #meditation #mindfuldrawing #mindfullondon #selfcaresaturday #drawing #drawingworkshop

This lunchtime we gathered together on Zoom for ou

This lunchtime we gathered together on Zoom for our regular 30-minute mindful looking session. Taking a 15th-century portrait as our focus, we brought kindness to our looking and to ourselves.
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Limina Collective brings mindfulness practices to art museums and online spaces. See our bio for upcoming events, via Zoom and in person.
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Our next session is next Monday, 28 February, when we will be engaging with a painting through mindful writing prompts. We’d love to see you there.
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Image: Antonello da Messina, ‘Portrait of a Young Man’, about 1470, @metmuseum
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#portrait #kindness #compassion #art #lookingatart #antonellodamessina #metropolitanmuseumofart #renaissance #painting #arthistory #museumfromhome #mindfulness #meditation #slowlooking #slowart

💨 We hope you stay safe and grounded today, if

💨 We hope you stay safe and grounded today, if you’re experiencing turbulent weather in the UK and Ireland 💨

This month our mindful looking events focus on portraits:
This Monday, 21 Feb (13:00-13:30)
Next Monday, 28 Feb (13:00-14:00)

Join us via zoom to take a closer look at a portrait through attentive observation and mindfulness practice. Tickets from £5, links in bio

Image: Katsushika Hokusai, ‘Ejiri in Suruga Province (Sunshū Ejiri)’, from the series ‘Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)’, about 1830–32, @metmuseum

#windyday #wind #hokusai #metmuseum #metnyc #mindfulnessmeditation #mindfulness #slowlooking #slowlookingatart #meditation #slowart #japan #ukiyoe #landscape #floatingworld #closelooking #art #museum

Really looking forward to the Whistler exhibition

Really looking forward to the Whistler exhibition at the Royal Academy, London: a deep dive into Joanna Hifferman’s relationship with Whistler as his friend, model, lover and collaborator. Opens 26 February.
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This month our mindful looking events focus on portraits:
This Monday, 21 Feb (13:00-13:30)
Next Monday, 28 Feb (13:00-14:00)
Join us via zoom to take a closer look at a portrait through attentive observation and mindfulness practice. Tickets from £5, links in bio
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Image: James Abbott McNeill Whistler,
‘Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl’ (detail), 1862, National Gallery of Art, Washington
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#whistler #jameswhistler #art #painting #portrait #white #womaninwhite #royalacademy #royalacademyofarts #exhibition #londonexhibition #londonart #nationalgallerywashington #mindfulness #mindfullooking #lookingatart #meditation #slowlooking #slowlookingatart

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