Enjoy calming effect of art
The Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum is to hold Mindful Art sessions in collaboration with a local mindfulness coach.
Mindful Art is a guided practice to mindfulness through beautiful works of art. The sessions are intended to relax and refocus people’s busy minds and are suitable for everyone.
Louise Cullen from the Stirling-based studio Tranceform Therapies will be leading the four sessions using paintings from The Smith’s collection.
The first session will focus on A Spring Idyll by the Scottish artist Thomas Bromley Blacklock.
Mindful Art will take place every second Wednesday at 7pm from May 13 via Facebook Live, looking at a different painting each session. It is free to attend and will last between 30-45 minutes.
Louise said:“Looking at art using mindfulness practices can be a great way to lift the spirits and focus the mind.
The stories in paintings can be intriguing, funny, a great distraction to us in diverting our mind, momentarily to another viewpoint. There is now even more evidence to suggest that paying attention, in this way, can be beneficial to our health and wellbeing.”
Louise has been a mindfulness coach for five years, developing her coaching programme after undertaking a teacher training programme with the Mindfulness Association. She has also created bespoke sessions for the the likes of Prudential, Creative Scotland, Moet Hennessey, and BenRiach Distillery.