We live in a society in which the creative ethos is increasingly dominant. The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, creative "right-brain" thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between
who gets ahead and who doesn't.
It is very suitable for for artists and art lovers, art collectors, investors, business people, scientist, for those in Education and besides all ... for all those who are dreaming about a painting vacation in Tuscany, Provence, Bali or Slovenia.
Organized
and hold by internationally acclaimed painter TJAŠA
IRIS
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25 November - 1 December 2010, 15 - 22 December 2010, 3- 10 January 2011
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2- 9 May 2011, 3 - 10 June 2011, 3 - 10 July 2011, 2 - 9 August 2011, 25 August 2011 - 1 September, 13 - 20 Sept. 2010
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PROVENCE,
France |
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Southern Italy at Castle "Masseria Salamina" |
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WHAT IS THIS WORKSHOP ALL ABOUT:
Tjaša Iris, an internationally acclaimed artist will guide you in order for you to explore your creative potential, from a visual point of view, help you develop your own painting style. And make you visit and be inspired in some of the most beautiful places in the world as Italy, France and Slovenia.
This workshop is going to open your eyes on fine art. It will make you discover your own creativity. Creativity in general with emphasis on: Your own visual creativity. Make you aware of it, and about how for you to use it. It is an educational painting vacation. The beginners will learn how to paint. If you are more advanced Tjaša will work with you so that you develop your own personal painting style.You will learn a lot about painting, other painters. About colour. About the visual. It is as well an art appreciation course for those of you who love art and will wish to know more about it. It is also a cultural, art & gourmet tour. You will get to know a lot about the country that you will be visitng. About its painting, architecture & history. It is for you to enjoy their best wines & cuisine. It will be an art class about plein air landscape painting. About pleasurable painting. With highly intellectual approaches to questions about creativity, visual language, analysis of numerous paintings by famous painters... Four hours of painting classes per day and one hour of an evening slide lecture - art appreciation course. It will be about relaxing and learning by having fun. Many art museum & cultural sites visits. In Tuscany you can also join Tjaša on her afternoon trekkings, and more...
FOR WHO THIS WORKSHOP IS GOOD FOR:
AND WHY
- For artists and art lovers With Tjaša Iris you will paint in one of the most beautiful places in the world. The beginners will learn how to paint. For more advanced of you Tjaša will help you to develop your personal painting style. And will make you find inspiration in these wonderful places, for an unforgetable painting vacation. The art appreciation course will help you understand art better as well as it will make you develop a more critical thinking about art.
- For art collectors and investors With Tjaša Iris you will paint in one of the most beautiful places in the world. Under her guidenes, trying to paint yourself, will expand your perceptions and will totally open your eyes on the works of other artists, too. The evening art appreciation course will make you understand why a certain painting is good. What was it that the artist did that was so genius. What is it that makes certain paintings special and precious and others not. During Tjaša's evening slides lectures, you will analyze many works of art. The workshop is very much recommended for art collectors / investors keen to gain a competitive edge. The workshop will represent a solid base for your art collection and for your future investments.
- For those of you who work in Education Many educators taking the workshop receive financial help from their school district or university to attend our summer workshops in Europe. Contact your Professional Development office. As well as The Fund for Teachers http://www.fundforteachers.org/ Recipients receive up to $5,000 each. This workshop can obtain you a credit to be applied to your Continuing Education - Teacher Development requirement. If you are completing an Advanced Degree you can ask your university for a credit as if you are doing an Independent Study course.
- For business people, corporative, investors, entrepreneurs, business owners who, as part of their innovation strategy, need to bring creativity to the innovation process. The workshop aims to develop your business creativity. Investments into creativity and innovations are also the most important for your business right now in the present time of economic crises. Only the creative people will be the most successful ones. Many of the people taking the workshop are sent by their companies as part of their professional development (and in this case workshop expenses may also be tax-deductible). This workshop make the participants aware of their own creativity. And about how to use it. So, once back to their office, they are now able to recognize and use their own creativity to the full at their work place as well. They are now turning economic crises into opportunity.
- For scientists The workshop aims to develop more the right-side of your brain. A very successful scientists need both right and left side of their brain. Science is unable to make new big steps without the scientist being very creative people. Visual creativity can help enormously to the scientists in order to acheive most significant results in science.
- For currious Art & Culture travellers The workshop is an investment into personal development of single person. And an achievement of new experiences.
Tjaša Iris
PAINTINGS
Tjaša Iris is an European artist. Slovenian born and Italian by adoption. She earned her M. F. A. degree from Academie Minerva, Groningen in The Netherlands in 1995. She is a member of Slovenian Artist Association and of AIAP Association Internationale des Arts Plastique by UNESCO since 1996. She had exhibitions in different European countries and South Africa. Her work is in public and private collections all over Europe, South Africa and United States. She is one of the leading Slovenian contemporary painters.
Tjaša Iris is also the founder of Villa Flora Artist in Residency Program - Branik Rihemberk Artists' Colony in Branik village, Slovenia.
She lives and works between her Villa Flora in the Precoastal Wine Country of Slovenia summer time and winters she lives in Paris.
Capri garden with vases and palm trees, acryl on canvas, 95 x 145 cm, 60" x 50", 2007
PAINTING & CREATIVITY WORKSHOPS
Tjaša: "I hold my first painting workshop in 1996. The Gallery - Cultural Foundation Fondazione Villa Benzi Zecchin from near Venice, Italy organized my first personal painting exhibition. With the intention to promote my first show they also organized painting workshops that were conducted by me. I liked the experience very much. And the summer after that I organized my first landscape painting workshop in Tuscany. Since than I made quite a long long way. I hold today up to 15 painting & creativity art workshops per year at different locations as in Italy, France and Slovenia. In 14 years of career I had participants of many professions from all 6 continents and from about 25 countries.
Most of my participants are from United States, Canada and European countries. But I had participants also from Australia, New Zeland, South Africa, Belize, Argentina, Anguilla, Israel, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Lebanon as from Great Britain, The Netherlands, Italy, Ireland, Switzerland, Romania, Germany, Macedonia, Norway, France...
....and many who returned second, third and even for the fifth time."
Tjaša Iris lived in 6 countries and learnt 7 languages. She is fluent in English, Italian, Slovenian and French. She has a wealth of knowledge in art history, food, wine and general tourism that will provide invaluable assistance to anyone planning to visit these historic parts of the world.
PROGRAM
For more information on program, please visit the link of each different workshop location. As all the programs are different.
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TUSCANY
Italy, at San Donato Farm near San Gimignano
LIST OF CLIENTS from where some of the particiapants were coming from:
UBS
Mayo
Clinic Hospital in Arizona
Isabel Le Roux
TESTIMONIAL:
SPECIAL OFFERS FOR CLOSED GROUPS:
Please note that Tjaša Iris can also organise and hold this workshop for a group of executives or others from your company at a date and location of your choice, taking into account the specific needs of your organisation.
Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."
Linus Pauling: "The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas."
Nietzsche: " You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star."
Ray Bradbury: " Life is "trying things to see if they work."
Rita Mae Brown: "Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work."
Saul Steinberg: " The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes."
V. S.
Naipaul: "I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I
have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but
I will fully understand what I have written only after some years."
Virginia Woolf: "Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order."
William James: "Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."
Henri Bergson: "To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endelessly."
Pablo Picasso: "All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
Greg Werner: "Some men throw their gifts away on a life of mediocrity, great men throw everything they have into their gifts and achieve a life of success."
"Let
me take you on a journey of DISCOVERY and ENLIGHTENMENT,
through the History, Art & Culture of the World ~ don't just pass through
but stop, feel, smell and touch the culture of the peoples and places you
visit"
Tjaša
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TUSCANY San
Donato Farm
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All 2010/11 participants RECEIVE A
10 % discount for
a VACATION STAY AT
TJAŠA’S ARTIST RETREAT - Artist's Residency -
Bed
& Breakfast
VILLA
FLORA, Branik IN
(to
be used within 1 year)
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Tjaša
is also owner of VILLA FLORA in Branik Village, Wine Country of Slovenia.
Villa Flora is Tjaša's residency and painting studio as well as a Bed &
Breakfast and an Artist's Residency where you can come for a stay, rent a
painting studio in the summer months. www.villaflora.si
CONTACT: TJAŠA IRIS e-mail: tjasa_iris@yahoo.com, tel. + 386 (0)5 305 79 09
©Tjasa Iris, last updated 02/08/2010