Kimbra Taylor

Creative Arts & Expression
Written By Lucie Hannon

ARTIST / ART COACH

Artworks

"Your task is not to seek for love but to find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." Rumi

My Mission

To slow down the world, one drawing, one breath, one heart at a time.

Services

  • Art Classes

  • Art Therapy

  • Art For Sale

  • Art and Wellbeing Retreats and Workshops

I teach adult beginners how to draw and paint by accessing the right hemisphere of their brain, which is inherently calming. This involves a gentle process of slowing down, awareness and mindful attention to what is authentic and present. I run face to face classes, one on one sessions, workshops and retreats and have a series of online courses. I paint with watercolour and draw, exhibiting and selling my work both as originals and prints.

Products

I have prints for sale of my bird paintings and one flower painting. These are printed on premium photographic paper in A3 and A4. Cups, coasters and placemats can also be printed with my artwork.I do portrait commissions of loved ones, both animal and human and am available for bird and flower commissions.

Value Exchange

I'm open to exchanging services where there's a good fit and mutual benefit. If you have skills, products, or services you believe could be a valuable exchange, feel free to reach out and we can explore the possibilities.

Location

  • Wellington

  • Kāpiti

  • Online

My Story

After completing a Diploma in Visual Communications, I moved from employment in advertising and publishing to free lance illustration and part time tutoring at Massey University, Whitireia Polytechnic and The Wellington School of Architecture.

In time I felt a calling to work with adult beginners and signed up with WEA, teaching drawing from the Right side of the brain. Since then a small, thriving art school has expanded around me. I teach adult students in my home, who attend weekly, often for years, and develop a high level of attainment both in drawing and the mindful awareness that grows along side it.

Over the years in my own life, creative work and teaching practise; I have become increasingly attuned to the right hemisphere. It has been a movement away from the striving of the left, (though that is always asking for inclusion) toward an alignment with the discovery that wholeness, belonging and presence are not things to acquire but realities that become visible as fear and contraction soften.

I create a space where you learn to draw and begin to trust your own heart a little more deeply, remembering the spaciousness already present within you.

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Testimonials

“Kimbra is an amazing art teacher. Her method has been life changing for my artwork. She helps you think differently while providing a meditative process which is so good for the soul.”
“Thanks for all you gift to us in your lessons. Drawing is only part of what I and very likely others are receiving from these two precious hours a week. There is such an opportunity for stillness and seeing, for healing there too, which we all need more of. I feel incredibly grateful to have found you and wanted you to know you are making a difference.”
“Kimbra’s workshop opened my eyes to a wider world I never thought I could understand. She is an inspiring and gifted facilitator and any business person with an open mind will have an open heart and new outlook on creative business practice.”
Lucie Hannon
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