Explore your artistic creativity at the Bali Centre for Artistic Creativity (BCAC). The BCAC is located at the Nyoman Ada Gallery complex in Ubud, where there are 7 galleries set in a beautiful traditional Balinese family compound. Director Bruce Sherratt, who was born in the U.K, is a practicing, exhibiting artist with degrees in art and art education. An international art educator with over 40 years experience in teaching and painting, Bruce will help you on your journey. At the same time you will have the opportunity to work alongside Balinese artists based at the centre. 

Bruce regards color as a vital and easily accessible key to unlocking inner creative potential. He approaches method through Rudolf Steiner’s color theory. Rudolf Steiner was one of the last great renaissance men; a philosopher, educationist and a spiritual scientist’s whose color theory had an impact on several leading pioneers of early abstract painting, such as Kandinsky and Mondrian. For Steiner imagination and fantasy are deeply linked to spirit. To explore this theory we need to suspend our subjectivity while working through a series of exercises leading to what Steiner regarded as objective facts regarding color. Colors are enhanced or made more powerful when juxtaposed against opposites, some will appear to retreat away and inwards, others advance forward. The experience will allow you to be seduced by color on another illusionary level. Fascinating consequences in both form and subconscious feelings/response are assured as you become engaged in the colors!

The individual process of exploring the effects of color combinations is both exciting and inspiring! However, we have tendencies to hinder and block the creative process by analyzing our outcomes. The solution is to ‘suspend’ our judgment of the forms and rhythmic patterns that materialize; this is what actually inhibits the natural flow of our creative powers.  Artistic potentials are revealed as a result of this liberation of expressive energy. While participating in the exercises set out by Bruce and allowing the natural dynamics of the colors to be explored an intuitive expressive flow develops. This flow allows the access to your imagination and creative possibilities.

Some Classes available at the BCAC include:

• Creativity for the whole family
• Painting in oils, acrylics, water colors and pure pigment.
• Drawing of all kinds – figurative, none figurative, observational and imaginative drawing.
• Rudlof Steiner’s color theory.
• Ceramic sculpture.
• Making Balinese ceremonial offerings.
• Art history and appreciation in a Balinese context

Contact:

Visit: www.baliartcourses.com
Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Hp: 081219968443.
Office: 0361 970034.
Sign on a friend of Bali Centre for Artistic Creativity on Facebook.
To view Bruce’s paintings visit http://paintings.brucesherratt.com/

Author Richard Horstman was born in Melbourne Australia and first visited Ubud in 1986. Having since spent numerous extended periods in Indonesia surfing he chooses the lush foothills and river valleys of Ubud to call home. Richard nurtures his creativity via spiritual pursuits and focuses on writing and painting. He also is an avid observer of the Indonesian contemporary Art Scene.