Painting Workshop - Exploring Colour and Gesture

Here, it’s not a class, it’s an experience. 

A pause to breathe, feel, dare.

I welcome you into my Artist studio in Ericeira, where all materials are provided.

You choose your colours, you draw, cover, splash, mix.
No aesthetic expectation, no model. Every gesture is a discovery.

Why painting

Spontaneity, freedom, the energy of gesture. You don’t come to “paint well”, you come to live a sensitive experience.

Goal of the session: not to “make an artwork”, but to live an intuitive and creative experience — to paint freely, without pressure, and leave lighter.

What it brings

  • Letting go and playing with colour
  • Recentering through simple gestures
  • Direct expression of emotions
  • Emergence of inner images
  • A personal trace to take home

Certified in professional art therapy, I accompany you without diagnosis or forced interpretation, with simple and caring listening.

My role : Open the Way and hold the space.


Welcome, short guidance, exploration at your rhythm, non-judgement, integrity of the works respected, optional sharing.

Yours : Explore and Feel

You come to live a moment of creative freedom, at your own rhythm, in a space of welcome and non-judgment.


There’s nothing to achieve — only to experience and feel.

✨ Choose your à-la-carte format ✨

All sessions include one coffee, tea or lemonade, plus a small homemade cake.

  • Duration : 2 h 
  • Private sessions only : one-to-one or pre-formed groups (no mixed groups, no strangers)
  • All materials included


Benefits:

  • Breathe and recentre at your own pace, with no outside gaze
  • Let go through simple, repeatable gestures
  • Clarify what you feel here and now
  • Rekindle creativity even if you think “I can’t paint”
  • Soothe the mind by focusing on colour, texture and movement
  • Build confidence as an image appears under your hands
  • Dare mistakes and transform them, no eraser, no judgement
  • Explore your personal palette : colours, textures, tools
  • Anchor a short ritual you can reuse at home to recentre
  • Leave with an artwork that marks the moment and supports you daily


🌿 Creative Workshops – offers

Single session - € 40
Perfect to discover, try, and enjoy without commitment.

3 sessions pack - € 110 instead of € 120 → € 36.50 per session
Ideal to build a rhythm, gain confidence, and go a little further.

5 sessions pack - € 170 instead of € 200 → € 34 per session
For those who want to truly immerse themselves, let time do its work, and see their gesture evolve.

 

Benefits: 

  • Step out of the everyday together, held by a gentle setting
  • Non-verbal dialogue through colour and gesture
  • Adjust your tempos — take turns to lead and follow
  • Co-create — decide steps and choices together
  • Welcome differences, negotiate space without conflict
  • Strengthen trust and warmth through shared action
  • Turn small tensions into playful creation
  • Dare to paint over and be painted over — without losing your place
  • Practice clear yes / no together and sense when the piece feels “right”
  • Leave with a shared artwork that witnesses your bond

🌿 Painting Duo offer

Duo session (2 people) - € 70 – one session

Support / artwork
– One shared piece
– Or one piece each: +€ 5 per person

Come as a pair and paint together, calmly and freely.
Each person keeps their own rhythm and gesture, with or without sharing the canvas.

Pre-formed duos only (arrive together)

 

Pre-formed family only.
Support / artwork: one shared piece.


Benefits: 

  • Respect : acknowledging each person’s place and pace
  • Trust : being able to rely on one another
  • Kindness : speaking and acting with care
  • Empathy : understanding what the other is going through
  • Shared responsibility : taking part in family life
  • Clear communication : saying, listening, rephrasing
  • Support : helping each other in good times and hard ones
  • Patience : giving time to steps and emotions
  • Gratitude: saying thank you, celebrating the everyday
  • Humour : easing tension, laughing together
  • Creativity : finding solutions, inventing rituals
  • Curiosity : taking interest in each other’s worlds

🌿 Painting Workshop – Tribe offer 

Tribe session – family only - Pre-formed family only.

Support / artwork - One shared piece.

One session (shared artwork)
– Family pack up to 4 people : € 140 → equivalent to € 35 per person
– 5 people : € 175 → equivalent to € 35 per person

🧒 Children aged 8 and over pay
👶 Free for children under 8

A calm and joyful shared experience.
One artwork, one moment, one family memory.

 

Pre-formed family only.
Support / artwork: one shared piece.


Benefits: 

  • Shared time that bridges generations
  • Pressure-free transmission : simple gestures, stories, little skills
  • Two-way listening : the child explores, the elder feels useful
  • Shared memory : a ritual, a piece to keep and tell about
  • Focus & fine motor skills : for the child, calm & pride for the elder
  • Intergenerational cooperation : deciding together, respecting different paces
  • Emotional regulation : through calm gestures, colour and repetition

🌿 Painting Workshop – Intergenerational Bridges offer 

Intergenerational Bridges session – family only - Pre-formed family only.

Support / artwork - One shared piece.

One session (shared artwork)
– Family pack up to 4 people : € 140 → equivalent to € 35 per person
– 5 people : € 175 → equivalent to € 35 per person

🧒 Children aged 8 and over pay
👶 Free for children under 8

A calm and joyful shared experience.
One artwork, one moment, one family memory.

 

Private pre-formed group : you come with your friends — no strangers added.

Format

  • One shared artwork
  • Or one canvas per person with cross-traces: each canvas carries a trace from every participant · everyone adds their personal touch to the others’ canvases · option +€ 5 per person

Benefits

  • Reconnect with your group in a warm, easy setting
  • Create a shared memory to hang or gift
  • Value differences without comparison or performance
  • Cooperate and share space smoothly
  • Communicate better: clear yes/no, adjust together, truly listen
  • Strengthen trust and respect each person’s pace
  • Defuse small tensions through playful making and humour
  • Get out of your head via gesture, colour and repetition
  • Boost creativity and boldness—experiment without fear of “ruining”
  • Leave with an artwork that tells your friendship (or a personal piece marked by everyone’s traces)

🌿 Painting Workshop – Friends group offer

Friends group session (3 to 4 people)
Pre-formed groups only.

One session - € 35 per person

  • 3 people: € 105
  • 4 people: € 140

Support / artwork
– One shared artwork
or
– One canvas per person with cross-traces
(each canvas carries a trace from every participant; everyone adds a personal touch to the others’ canvases)
→ option +€ 5 per person

A relaxed, joyful, and collaborative experience.
A shared creation where individual gestures meet and connect.

 

 

Private pre-formed group: you bring your guests — no strangers added.
Note: one shared artwork, gifted to the birthday person.

Format

  • Gentle welcome, setting intentions in colour
  • Choosing palettes and gestures that feel like you
  • Creating a shared piece that gathers your traces and wishes
  • Short closing moment to sign the artwork and dedicate it to the guest of honour

Benefits

  • Celebrate differently : create instead of consume
  • Mark the milestone with a personal, meaningful trace
  • Strengthen bonds through a shared, pressure-free gesture
  • Say with colour what words don’t always catch
  • Laugh, dare, surprise yourselves in a caring setting
  • Leave with an artwork that keeps the party going at home

🎂 Painting Workshop – Birthday (shared artwork)

Birthday group session – adults only - Pre-formed group. → €35 per person
One shared canvas created for the person celebrating their birthday.

  • 3 people: € 105
  • 4 people: € 140
  • 5 people: € 170
  • 6 people: € 200

A relaxed and joyful moment.
Everyone contributes to the same canvas, each gesture adding something personal for the birthday person.
A collective artwork to keep, remember, and hang.

Optional

  • Mini wish-rituals written on the back of the canvas
  • Plancha & Wine for the 19:00–21:00 slot : +€ 12 per person
    (charcuterie & cheese board + one glass of wine or soft)
  • 🥂 Complimentary option for the birthday guest

This workshop can also take place at the location of your choice. Just get in touch, and we’ll discuss it together.

 

 

Private pre-formed group : you come as a ready-made crew — no strangers added.
Note : one shared artwork, gifted to the bride-to-be.

Format

  • Gentle welcome, intention for the bride set in colour
  • Choosing a symbolic group palette, small good-luck gestures
  • Creating a shared piece with each one’s traces and discreet messages
  • Closing : collective signature and dedication to the bride-to-be

Benefits

  • Celebrate the milestone before the wedding, meaningfully and differently
  • Strengthen group cohesion and support
  • Express affection and memories through colour
  • Laugh, dare, reconnect in a caring setting
  • Keep a unique keepsake to hang or to gift

 

💍 Painting Workshop – Bachelorette (shared artwork)

Bachelorette group session – adults only
Pre-formed group. → €35 per person

One shared canvas created for the bride-to-be.


– 3 people : € 105
– 4 people : € 140
– 5 people : € 170
– 6 people : € 200

A relaxed and joyful moment.
Everyone contributes to the same canvas, each gesture adding something personal for the bride-to-be.
A collective artwork to keep, remember, and hang.

Optional

Plancha & Wine for the 19:00–21:00 slot : +€ 12 per person
(charcuterie & cheese board + one glass of wine or soft)

🥂 Plancha & Wine option complimentary for the bride

Optional note
If you’d like to organize this workshop at the location of your choice, feel free to contact me — we’ll talk it through together.



 

Support / artwork : one shared piece — diptych / triptych possible depending on space.
Pricing : on quote (materials included ; travel within 40 km around Ericeira — beyond on quote)

Benefits

  • Cohesion : make something together, no performance pressure
  • Clear communication : say yes / no, adjust, decide as a group
  • Trust & psychological safety : dare to propose, iterate, paint over
  • Complementary roles : leaders, supporters, finishers — everyone finds a place
  • Active listening : welcome ideas, rephrase, converge
  • Tension management : turn frictions into creative choices
  • Alignment : link colours / gestures to team values and goals
  • Applied creativity : experiment without fear of “ruining”, learn by trying
  • Stress regulation : calm, shared rhythm through gesture and colour
  • Visual anchor : leave with a signature piece that stays on the wall as a team marker

Optional

  • Thematic focus : values, vision, onboarding, milestone celebration
  • Output : final photo + short caption of the team’s intentions
  • Evening slot 19:00–21:00 — Plancha & Wine : +€ 15 per person (charcuterie / cheese + one glass of wine or soft)

     


Practical info 📌

  • Ericeira — Artist studio, address shared after booking
  • Schedule : 7 days a week by appointment
  • Morning 10–12 am, Afternoon 3–5 pm, Evening 7–9 pm
  • Bookings: minimum 24 h in advance
  • Gift vouchers: available 🎁
  • Languages: FR · EN · PT 🌍
  • Materials: always provided 🧰

Need more details before you book ? 

Don’t hesitate to contact me.


Ready to try ? The rest, we do together.