Transpersonal Art Course
The course leads to a City & Guilds Licentiate Award (Level 4, LCGI).
The course provides students with the facilitation skills and experience to enable you to lead Creativity and Well-being workshops to the general public. This would enable you to be an Arts Facilitator.
Our Transpersonal Arts course is a journey of transpersonal engagement with the visual arts (painting, drawing and sculpture). It is also the foundation for our own Transpersonal Arts in Therapy training.
The Transpersonal emphasises the paradoxical and mysterious, the creative and the spiritual dimension in the universal scheme of things.
The course promotes the development of artistic skills and aesthetic awareness of nature’s archetypal processes through colour and form.
Through an experiential approach themes introduced include: qualities of colour, nature, the four elements and temperaments, and art history. They are presented in such a way that artistic processes become gateways into understanding nature and the human being.
If you always wanted to gain artistic skills, or explore a new dimension of your art as one who cherishes colour, form and above all, a love of nature, its power, wisdom and beauty, then this course is for you!
The course duration is one year full-time (Tuesday and Wednesday) plus one weekend per month approx).
For information on costs, student accommodation, term dates and application forms, see section Fees & Practical Info.
Course Outline
In this course you will:
Explore Goethe and Rudolf Steiner’s theory of colour with an in-depth experiential understanding of colour.
Gain a deeper understanding for Art History as a mirror of human consciousness.
Develop extensive water-colour painting skills in the processes of the wet-on-wet and veiling techniques.
Develop drawing skills.
Develop an experiential understanding for the formative principles of form through clay modelling.
Undertake projects and presentations on themes of art history and on a personal art topic.
Develop art workshop facilitation skills
As part of the programme students participate in the Introduction/Assessment weekend (held 14-16th May 2010) for our Transpersonal Art in Therapy professional training. Here the student will be introduced to art for therapeutic purposes and to the core model of the human being used in the training. For further information see Transpersonal Arts in Therapy training Entry Requirements.
Transformative Arts Tutors
Maria Albiez SRATh, Dip Art Therapy, Sculptor
Following study and work with children in remedial education Maria studied Art Therapy at Tobias School of Art, graduating in 1992. She then undertook post- graduate study in Sculpture Therapy at the Hoathly Hill Sculpture Studio and since 1997 has been co-director of the Studio working both as artist and tutor. She also maintains an art therapy practice and has worked in clinics and hospitals. Maria is the carrier of the Tobias’ Transformative Arts course.
Gillian David MEd Arts in Therapy and Education; Dip. Art Therapy; Dip. PG Painting Therapy; PG Cert Creative Supervision; SRATh,
Since 1993 Gill has been the director of the Transformative Arts in Therapy training, and has been intensely involved in course accreditation and development. Gill is a graduate of Tobias and of the Emerald Foundation, Holland. She works as an art therapist in a primary school, leads workshops in Europe and USA and has worked as an art therapist in Waldorf schools, medical and private practice.
Jonathan Chequers MA Art, Body and Representation
From being a sculptor and art tutor Jonathan followed this with a period of academic study of Art History, specialising in contemporary art practice. Jonathan teaches writing, research, study and presentation skills along with lectures on Art History. He is also the General Manager for Tobias.
Guest Tutors
Dick Bruin
Dick has been a class teacher for 30 years and now principal of Westfriese Vrije School, Holland. Also teaches art in the upper classes of the Waldorf School in Bergen, Holland. He gives painting seminars throughout Europe. He is co-author of the book 'Painting in Waldorf Education'.
Diane Flowers
Diane is an Eurythmist who later took the artistic-therapeutic training at Tobias where she has taught for a number of years.
Jeremy Gale BA
Jeremy combines the visionary teaching methods he learnt with Cecil Collins to his work in London at the Central School of Art and in Florence.
Gloria Tsai
Gloria presently works freelance and at the St. Paul's Steiner School, London as both art therapist and tutor.
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