If you missed yesterdays opening!> READ FOR DAYS I WILL BE AT THE SPACE this month First pictures of yesterday!
Whist a special evening! Showing my art in a space that resonates with who I am as a woman and what I stand for through my painting felt meaningful. Thankyou @atelier_code_noir
Thank you to everyone who showed up. It was such a intimate, busy, bubbly, cute evening 🤍
Also a thankyou to @j.saoed@najamac & dudu for the music 🎶 & @perrine_aguirre_babativa for the delishhh food
I’ll be in the space on several days over the coming weeks. Feel free to pass by, have a chat, and see my art. Days for now ;
6 / 7 / 13 / 19 / 20 March
And dont forget to check out the event program we’re hosting
13/3 vinyasa yoga flow @pasdimente
19/3 Newmoon gathering @ndlesscreole
25/3 Paint & heal Ancestral waters @peindreenkura
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📷 @michelleamo_
Paint & heal Ancestral edition 18/6
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This workshop focuses on generational healing. We’ll connect with our family and ancestral stories through journal prompts, card pulling, family stories, and pictures, intuitively transforming these into a meaningful painting. Note : This is not a technical workshop, it’s about working from the intuition and connecting with yourself and your stories through art.
Please bring a photo/object, that is connected to your ancestor(s). We possibly will use them to create your artwork.
We will drink a cup of cacao, a heart opener, to help us connect to self and the group.
Key Features:
- Journaling session to connect with your inner world
- Card pulling to connect with intuition
- Sharing rounds
- Cup cacao
- Painting.
- Focus on intuitive, expressive painting rather than technical skills.
- Materials, snacks & drinks included
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Date - 18/6
Time - 18:45- 19:00 WALK IN / 19 - 22h
Location - Heesterveld 132-A
1102 SC Amsterdam
Investment -
I want the workshops to remain accessible to a wider community. The sliding scale pricing ;
- €60 Standard Ticket
- €45 Reduced Ticket (for students or lower income)
- €60+ Support Ticket (for those who are able to contribute a little extra)
If you choose the reduced ticket, please don’t be shy to send me a mail > [email protected] to receive your discount code.
A limited number of reduced tickets is available per workshop.
One thing that stuck with me after last weeks is how nature resembles life’s relationships. It holds so much knowledge if we’re ready to listen.
This morning, I was journaling, and one sentence stayed with me: “Being ready before you’re ready, the right time is when there’s still some fear.”
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You pick fruit right before it’s fully ripe.
This stay in nature felt like one big spiritual therapy session. Feeling gratefull and proud that im taking these steps. A lot of inspiration for my heart and art.
Also learned a thing or two. Did you know Noni is a fruit? Did you know she smells terrible. But she is also super healthy and healing. 👸🏽🫀🍃🌱 🧚🏾♀️
Carried
Acrylic on canvas
‘25
A painting about that feeling of lying in the ocean, the feeling of being carried by the water, by the presence and memories of ancestors. In the water, intentions and affirmations are set, held, and supported. In that drifting, floating feeling, there is this reminder: You can carry yourself. You build a life with tools that support you. You are building a life that carries you. Trust in this.
Like a lover who gives that same sense of being held and carried, while at the same time helping you shine and remember that you can carry yourself to.
Tera kòrá
Acrylic on canvas
‘26
This painting is inspired by a reading I received on my birthday last year. In that reading, it became clear that I carry something in my heart, a heart wound. Not just mine, but something that has been passed down through generations.
Where women in my lineage haven’t always felt or been safe to fully rest in their gentleness, in their sensitivity, in their softness. There has been a kind of holding, protecting, a shaping of self.
During the reading, I saw a clear image of myself leaning against a tree on my ancestral land in Curaçao, land that is still in my family, where we have a home, a place that feels sacred to me. I was also being held by my ancestors. They were supporting me, protecting me. Affirming the strength within these parts of me, and to trust / walk that path is also to honor them.
I’m beginning to understand that this is something that belongs to me. Something I don’t have to hide or move away from, but something I move from within this world.
Yesterday I hosted a beautiful Paint & Heal Ancestral Waters Edition at @atelier_code_noir Noir. The evening began with a lovely diner by Code noir , followed by a workshop surrounded by my exhibition “The weight of gentle things” drawing inspiration from its theme.
There were beautiful conversations, shared insights, moments of vulnerability, even a few tears and above all, genuine connection.
As I sat there, taking it all in, I felt so grateful for this journey that continues to bring such amazing souls into my life. It’s special to see how my art and the workshops I host with @peindreenkura come together and strengthen each other.
Back to last week New Moon gathering:
Ancestral Echoes and Creole Tomorrows at @atelier_code_noir hosted by @marinemagdalene and @nonimadeleine 🌊🌚
The perfect occasion to reflect on the meaning of spirituality while at the crossroads of so many cultures and identities. But also write our prayers and intentions for ourselves, our loved, our community for the next season. 🌸
Thank you to everyone who showed up, the evening was enlightening and recomforting.
May Spring be gentle and full of blessings for all of you! 💌✨
