Fathom, 2014

“This five week course was really a wellness course disguised as an art class…. You can’t get where you want to be with fear guiding you. In a way this is a course in facing and conquering the fear inside you.”

“Bloom True has helped me release the inner voice that likes to say my art isn’t good enough. That’s silly. Good enough for whom? I am an artist by virtue of making art! Bloom True is a creative joy ride that is as much about trust, intuition, delving in and letting go, as it is about painting. You would love it!”

“I feel energised, refreshed, and truly nourished. Thank you so much for re-igniting my creative flow in my heart and art. I have loved this course and will continue the practices on my art journey.”

“Learning to let go. This is the most precious and important lesson that I gained from Flora Bowley and the Bloom True process. Letting the painting become what it’s supposed to be, and listening to my intuition. Grateful is not really enough of a word to express how I feel about the course, Flora, and the new life it has given me.”

“The retreat went far beyond my expectations. I’ve returned feeling full, renewed, and deeply inspired. Flora is a teacher who holds space with grace and wisdom, creating an environment where women can reconnect with their essence and come alive again.”

“More than an art course, it’s a complete experience for the heart and soul. I loved how the course encourages you to trust yourself, paint from the heart and, in doing so, to develop your own, unique style. Up until now, I have largely been stuck in the place of copying artists. This course opened me up to the exciting possibility that I am an artist in my own right and, if I trust myself and do the work, I can make art that is unique, exciting and meaningful to me.”

“The Creative Revolution class is wonderful!! It is so much more than a basic art class. You will feed your creativity, body, mind and spirit! This class has encouraged me to add creativity into my daily life. I have enjoyed every minute of the Creative Revolution!”

“Not only has Flora taught me how to put color on a canvas, she’s also taught me so many lessons about life: how to let go of what I *think* I need, how to take big, scary risks, and how to stay present and be open to what life might bring me. Her enchanting process is a gift to any creative who yearns for more, and it will leave you feeling both grounded in your present and fired-up for what’s to come.”

“You can choose what you want to do and when you want to do it. There is no pressure to be good enough. And the letting go helps me to get to know myself in a new way!”

“I’m 69 and had wanted to paint ever since I was a teenager… However, the blank canvas always screamed ‘Go away! You have no idea what you’re doing!’ That is until about 5 months ago when a friend lent me your book Brave Intuitive Painting. It was a message from beyond that released my fear of that blank canvas. Now, whenever I feel stymied, I watch your YouTubes where you paint with so much freedom and I’m re-inspired. I now try to paint every day. Thank you, thank you.”

“I love the very generous offerings Flora has provided each month. I am thrilled I gifted a year of diaries to myself – money well spent! The Diaries keep me inspired creatively, mentally, and physically and provide a sense of artistic community for me. Very, very happy!”

“Reunite was an adventure in self trust and has deeply affected me. It has helped me to gain insight into the creative process and has given me a new reverence for being creative on a daily basis!”

“I consider Flora a soul sister, a fellow truth-teller, and deeply inspired seeker. She has a true gift for teaching, helping others to discover and unleash their unique creative voice. She also has an exceptional talent for gathering beautiful kindred spirits together, igniting connection and belonging.”

“After such a long, hard, solitary and confusing year with so much grief all around us, it was truly magical and a soul-feeding respite. For the first time, I approached art without fear – that sinking feeling of inadequacy, feeling stupid, so much judgement was nodded to and then released. I approached this class joyfully, truly as a beginner, and when I got ‘stuck’ I was merely perplexed and went back to the directions – make a mark, change a color, close your eyes!”

“Flora’s latest course shows you a beautiful way to set up a creative habit for your whole life. From my favorite Morning and Evening sanctuaries, fun movement exercises, fabulous music, and simple creative exercises to assist you with your creative journey which are easy to do daily. The course is easy to follow each week and the video content is exceptional.”

“The Creative Revolutionary E-Course is opening me up to new ways of approaching art and creativity. Rather than to feel stuck and frustrated with art, I’m now giving myself permission to play, experiment and not get hung up about results. The Morning Sanctuary sessions are helping me set the tone for the day and make the changes for a more mindful and nourishing day. Flora is a first class teacher-so generous....I have been looking for her for ages!”

“I really loved this course! It’s magic to discover something new and at the same time realize it was there inside us all along!”

“An amazing experience where self care, self exploration, and creativity collide!”

“Flora’s class was my first online art class and I LOVED IT!! Flora is a natural teacher. I was soooooo impressed with the website, videos, online interviews, etc. First class all the way! I’ll be back for more!”

“Loved the live element and so glad I made it a priority to show up, not just sign up. It’s real, it’s community, and a whole new vibe! Energizing and inspiring, thank you for inviting us all in to share!”

“I had a breakthrough on being stuck. Just by understanding how to activate the canvas without fear was a huge success for me. It was a great experience that I will never forget.”

“This course has helped me honor a tug in my spirit to be creative and to listen to my inner guidance. I can’t explain in words the great value this had on my life.”

“Thanks so much for the cool hangout today! It was so inspiring and I’m REALLY excited about seeing REAL TIME Live come to life! I’ve been working through Bloom True since last Christmas and it’s been really helping me grow as an artist. Going live feels like such a great next step and I can’t wait to see it happen!”

“I will forever be craving that month of wellness and the thoughtful, creative, and heart-felt prompts that kept us tuned in and united through the month.”

“As always, you grow as a person and artist when you take one of Flora’s courses. If you are new to painting, you will get a ton of information to get you started, have a lot of fun and will allow you to keep painting for a long time. If you have experience, you will learn to let go and enjoy the process, it gets you in tune with your body, heart and soul. I have taken a lot of Flora’s online courses and this is THE BEST one!”

“I just want to thank you so much for creating the Creative Revolution. I am so happy to join this amazing and beautiful course and it fits perfectly into my really busy life! The lessons come beautifully simple and so easy to access – and they also are so amazingly powerful.”

“Fresh Paint was a treasure trove of new ideas, insights, and useful tools to break up that “stuck” feeling when staring at a blank canvas. Flora and Lynx guided our discovery through multiple hands-on activities that inspired and challenged our practice. I’ve come away from this workshop feeling excited, motivated and more confident to paint fearless.”

“Really enjoying watching the videos. They are informative and give a large array of methods, marks, color combinations and inspiration. Always feel like getting to my studio to start painting after watching them.”

“The content in Studio Diaries is so rich that I feel guided as if Flora were in my studio with me, leading me through private lessons. How cool is that?! That kind of connectivity can only come to students through a teacher who truly lives and practices what she instructs. The world, and especially women, need this connectivity so very, very much.”

“I feel like I'm with my people here... people who understand this deeply personal soul work we're doing and the creative path we're navigating. Thank you for creating this beautiful space! I believe I'm living a more healthy life with some of the practices you have shared and some of the guest speakers.”

“Flora’s course was life changing. I have never enjoyed the process of painting as much as I do now. I have much more trust in myself and in what I bring to the painting. Her course is not just about painting, but noticing the abundance in our lives and how we bring that to our paintings.”

“Loved the live painting session! Originally thought I would just watch but I didn’t, I pulled a new canvas picked out some paints and stepped out of my comfort zone! It was awesome and helped me understand the process better… Thank you for being so vulnerable and for sharing!!!”

“I am so pleased that you had someone sit in a chair for most of these. I am in a wheelchair most of the day so all of these movements mean so much to me. I often do them before I meditate and, of course, prior to beginning a painting. I am learning so much about myself and how I want my paintings to evolve. THIS class is so awesome. I feel that I am in a class with Flora and everyone else. Love the group you gathered and love their processes.”

“Thank you Flora for sharing such an inspiring collection of thoughts, exercises and creative practices. I not only feel inspired creatively but mindful of my environment. Truly loved this course.”

“I adore that we are connecting from around the world... I love the variety of people in the group.”

“Since I have been painting so much, I find that I look at the world differently now. Suddenly the trees near my home are MORE colorful. My eyes are suddenly tuned into the world of color more vividly. <3 Loving it.”

“If you have ever felt like you want to paint but you don’t know
where or how to start, this class, and especially Flora will introduce you to a technique that could change your life by teaching you a creative practice that will allow you to just begin.”

“An amazing adventure/retreat in intuitive style painting, that I’ve never really tried, that allowed me to explore spaces of my creative self I’ve never explored! Totally opened me up. I feel liberated!!”

“The Painting Sessions is an inspiring educational experience. It’s fascinating watching a painting develop and the way Flora explains her choices helps you to understand the painting itself, but is also incredibly useful when thinking about your own practice and experiences making art. I always leave off watching feeling refreshed and inspired, and looking forward to the next one!”

“Flora is a wise and gifted teacher and mentor. Her generous offerings nourish the heart, mind, body and spirit with grace and genuineness. I feel so fortunate to be connected to her and the amazing community she invites us to participate in. Thank goodness for the creative, heartfelt beauty of Flora Bowley.”

“A highly transformative and healing experience that allows one to access themselves in ways they never thought possible. It is a soulful, creative adventure that offers opportunity for self nurturing, self care, community, and divine grace.”

“This class changed my life as much as my painting. I now cherish my intuition on the canvas and off. How did I ever live any other way? It is so much more than a painting class. It was full of wonderful, technical information, but placed in a larger context of life and creating. It would be worth 10 times the cost!”

“Flora Bowley’s course taught me to tap into the creative force in my soul, which had been buried for a long time. What a blessing that is. <3”

“There are some people who help people live just by being there. Lynx and Flora are this: their presence and authenticity are inspiring and give me permission to seek and live my own truth.”

“It’s the next best thing to a real retreat/painting workshop with Flora you can get. It really feels like being part of the group in the studio and the inspirational bonus inputs over a whole month were a special extra treat!” Just do it! This is truly a great gift for yourself and your art! It will leave you inspired and happy!

“Life changing – more than what you would ever expect from a painting course, let alone an online painting course.”

“It was such an all encompassing course but what made this really stand out was to have the participants there going through it. Each person brought a different dynamic to the retreat thus asking the questions, processing through the steps, etc just as if I would be there.”

“I have always wanted to paint ‘like me,’ to just let go and, if people like what I do, then great. I feel like this is happening now. It also has had an extremely therapeutic effect on me as I am also signed off work with stress. I feel totally absorbed when I am painting. Overall, it has helped to ignite my creative spark, which has been dormant for too long. I am so grateful that this came my way at this time.”

“A wonderful experience with so many tips for wellness, which I realized is a way for setting the terrain for creativity. I highly recommend these sessions to explore painting with mindfulness, release judgement, and find a sense of playfulness while making your self-expression with love.”

“Transformative, both on and off the canvas. I am a better person than I was before REUNITE.”

“This course is gentle and diverse. You learn how to paint intuitively, allowing yourself to play and experiment, allowing yourself to make ‘mistakes,’ to let go of trying to control the outcome. This is a fun, free, stress-free way to explore painting and simply produce in order to learn about yourself, what you like, and what emerges naturally.”

“This course was inspiring and interesting. I loved the warmth and embrace that was conveyed throughout the course. The insights and knowledge I have received through the course are things that have become the undercurrent to finding and discovering my own voice in my artwork. I believe its effects will be long-lasting and will stay with me going forward.”

“LOVED LOVED LOVED this whole session – so happy I signed up for this treasure!”

“Inspiring, empowering and encouraging. It’s an excellent course for painters who are stuck in their ways, and are ready to explore and open up. I have been painting for over 20 years, and this course reignited my love for experiencing paint in a different way, which has been transformational.”

“After years away from making art, Flora has helped me rediscover the young girl in myself who always found joy and pleasure in drawing, building, and creating. She is a gentle and generous guide on the path of connecting deeply with oneself and discovering the tools to express this connection visually. What a treasure it is to have Flora Bowley as your teacher.”

“I knew this was going to be wonderful BUT this is the best investment I made this year! Thank you!!”

“Flora’s course opened my eyes to the creative blocks I have been creating for myself. She shared her knowledge and gifts in a way that really changed the way I approach art from this point on.”

“Watercolors are the newest and simplest go to for me, since Creative Revolution began. Mixing it all up has led to creative discoveries. I never know what’s going to happen next, but the materials are at my beck and call and easy access makes getting busy with art making my daily practice.”

“Flora is one of those rare individuals who provided a safe space for me to open my wings to fly again in my painting journey. I’m incredibly grateful for her kindness, gentle approach and warm words of encouragement. Her E-Course is a life changer!”

“I am so deeply grateful. My painting has evolved and has become something fresh, new and delightful. I can’t even begin to thank Flora for her influence, not just on my painting, but on my LIFE. I’ve been navigating some serious illness throughout this process, and to paint like this, even in small, 15-minute per-day doses, has brought me joy that I can’t put into words.”

“I signed up for myself, to remind myself about fun, spontaneity and intuitive creativity, as I have just finished a big exhibition which was very serious. But this week, what has happened is family therapy and healing as my younger kids gathered for ‘musical lines’ on Sunday morning. In the midst of our chaotic fragmented lives we played and created, connected and had such a beautiful hour or two immersed in ‘that Flora Bowley course you’re always talking about mum’!”

“Painting is healing, and a process. It was one of the first times that I was able to be really in the process and not feel attached to, or become precious about, parts of my work. Being unattached to outcome, and being in the moment led to a different experience and really embrace the process.”

“Fresh Paint was quite a breakthrough actually. Through persistence, I was able to let go of outcome expectations, let go of imposter feelings, and take away new insights from each series. It’s like freeing the artist within whose been there all along.”

“This was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. It is rare to find a teacher who can connect with others in such a powerful and inspiring way. I learned as much by observing the demos as I did through exploration on my own.”

“Today's community art gathering...Blown away! How is it possible that I could feel the beautiful connection with each one of you through a computer screen?! Amazing! Brought to tears by the vulnerable sharing. Thank you all!”

“Flora’s descriptions, explanations and tips on how to get in touch with the creative spark and intuition and how to find them again when you are stuck and blocked were so valuable to me. I’ve done a few painting workshops, but none of them made me feel so inspired and learned so much.”

“The opportunity to build lifelong friendships, grow as an artist, and find a little more wholeness.”

“Total magic! Fresh Paint gave me the freedom to explore EVERYTHING! The best gift I could ever have given myself.”

“A magical experience that helped me find new ways to express myself through emotion rather than what I think my expression should look like. It was a lesson on stillness and paying attention to my feelings to find out what I need and what I want to express. And it was the most beautiful art class on an intuitive painting process where we learned to activate and move through different phases of the working with the canvas to bring forth some pretty cool intuitive art.”

“REUNITE is a gift to yourself. Flora is constantly giving us permission to be messy, have fun and start over again and again. It’s a practice for a life and a reminder to take one step forward. Just the next right thing.”

“FREE Flo is an opportunity for me to weave more "for the joy of it" creative play into my personal life.”

“Being part of the FREE FLO community for the past four months has definitely enhanced my life. This group has fulfilled my wish to hang out with “like-minded souls." I feel like an old dog learning new tricks!”

“One of my highest-held values is connection and that is what I find in FREE FLO. Connection with like-minded, big-hearted women and some men! Also feeling safe to share. I tend to be very private. You have created a space where I feel I can share myself on all levels and it will be received with kindness and encouragement.”

“FREE FLO has changed my life for the better, I’m not even kidding. I am Alive again! This community reminds me daily why I love to create and how essential creativity is to my well-being. I paint/write daily now as a form of self-love, as well as a deep desire to better my practice.”

“This course is a delicious and nourishing treat for the creative soul. The tools and advice Flora shares in this course have the power to free you from old, stuck patterns and open up new worlds of exploration.”

“I have been ‘packed away’ inside.... so much of life has been, well, too much at times. I unpacked myself today. I feel on FIRE.”