“Working with Katie has enabled me to stroll my inner landscape, to sense my emotional life in a totally refreshing way! Dazzling what playing with color can do for you.”
—Deirdre Towers
Testimonials
“The most important thing that I’ve experienced time and again while painting with Katie is that I’d never go as deep on my own as I do with her. I frequently come to stopping points along the way that feel like perfectly reasonable quitting times—Katie's questions engage me to go further, to test other possibilities, to release whatever it is that I am holding onto. Until it feels right. It's amazing how clear that feels when a painting is done.”
—Jill S.
Katie is a very insightful and compassionate facilitator. She brings warmth, humour and deep caring to her role and I recommend her very highly.
—Annie Rousseau, Trainer and Senior Facilitator, the Painting Experience.
Katie is a trustworthy facilitator of process painting who offers gentle guidance with care, compassion and her steadfast presence. She creates a safe holding environment where painters are deeply respected and are encouraged to express authentically. As an experienced facilitator and painter, Katie brings wisdom, insight and genuine connection to her interactions with painters.
—Aziza Balle, Senior Facilitator and coach with The Painting Experience
I started Katie’s Process Painting class wondering what I should “process.” She asked a few questions and then let me begin.
With no idea of what I would “do,” I played with dabs and brush strokes and mixing colors, and emerged with something that spoke to me....
It amazed me how Katie would gently ask questions; I looked at my painting later and saw how her process skills had bubbled up things I had not even thought about at all at the beginning of class.
—Bill S.
"Joining Katie’s online process painting group has been a life saver for me as I dealt with challenge and loss over the past year. I continually feel heard and warmly contained in her gatherings and the opportunity to be vulnerable and raw has been so healing. Process painting is a unique and very sacred creative exploration for me in letting go, and discovering my inner strength. Katie is a compassionate, skilled, and wise facilitator, and I would recommend her weekly groups to all who want to explore their creativity. I have learned to witness my own vulnerability in a new way and really appreciate myself more fully. Thank you, Katie!”
Paddy Dolphin
“Process Painting is, for me, the perfect antidote to my work life—with its many responsibilities, problems to solve, and general focus on thinking rather than feeling.
Katie’s Painting Portal space allows me to drop all that and venture into pure embodied play with color. A truly sensual immersion where I can simply be —and allow myself the space to go wherever my feelings and the brush lead.”
—Greg C.
“Process Painting with Katie is so freeing. There’s no inner critic, there’s only exploration. There’s no perfection, only curiosity. It’s not art therapy, but it is incredibly healing, and Katie is an exceptionally kind and wise guide.”
—Valerie R.
