How mindfulness and drawing can help us to connect with art

Today I’m so happy to be talking to Karly Allen about her work. We’re talking about how mindfulness can help us to connect with and engage with art, how we can bring mindfulness practices to the experience of drawing. Karly Allen is a UK-based gallery educator, drawing tutor and mindfulness teacher. She has worked for the National Gallery, London, over the past 20 years and has taught widely for UK art collections including the National Portrait Gallery, Wallace Collection and Royal Collection. In 2018, Karly co-founded Limina Collective to bring mindfulness and reflection practices to museum and online spaces.  We explore how mindfulness and meditation practices, observation of the artwork and drawing interrelate with each other. And how drawing with mindfulness creates connections, opens us up to creativity and helps us to overcome any resistance we might have to drawing or the fear of the blank page. We talk extensively about the benefits and how it help us to tune into a mode of being being open, letting go of preconceptions and habitual patterns of looking. LinksMasterclass: Mona Lisa - Experiments in Drawing with MindfulnessTuesday 19 July at 17.00 hrs CETThis masterclass offers an experimental space to explore drawing and mindfulness, with Leonardo’s iconic painting as our focus.Sign up here: https://buy.stripe.com/aEU00A3Th8pP1Wg5ksSupport the Show Find out more about Limina Collective and contact Karly via their website https://www.liminacollective.comJoin the Limina Collective monthly newsletter Connect on Instagram:@limina_collective@karlykallenLimina Collective's exhibition audios for Manchester Art Gallery, 'Room to Breathe': https://manchesterartgallery.org/exhibitions-and-events/exhibition/room-to-breathe/Limina Collective's series of films for the Royal Academy, 'A Slow Look': https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/articles/tag/slow-lookLimina Collective's film for The Wallace Collection, 'Taking Time to Look': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVp4h27aeos