Painting with the ancestors
We are surrounded by our planetary Ancestors - from the air we breathe to the ground we walk on. We are the outcome of every Ancestor who has ever been, and is yet to come. Imagine what it would be like to paint with this living field of co-creative Ancestors who long to speak with us as much as we long to speak with them…
Visual Medicine™is a radically simple, visionary, step-by-step painting practice that does not use brushes. The process will allow you to enter the timeless flow of Ancestral energy that surrounds us. The images that emerge from working with Visual Medicine are reflections of the underlying forms and patterns in creation itself which in turn give a visual access to the vastness of our many Ancestors. These timeless Guides, Allies and Wise Ones exist within everyone and everything - and are waiting to paint with us.
Visual Medicine™ is a portal to the Ancestral dimensions held within us, and the body of the world. We are a living library of all that has been and all that is yet to come. Our bodies are ancestral sanctuaries to multitudes of microscopic cellular life forms that live symbiotically and sympathetically alongside us and with us. We are the outcome of the trillions of other lives that have occurred before us.
We are here because of everyone and everything who have collided into life and created this invitation for us now…
We all have multitudes of Ancestors…
Visual Medicine™ is a visual conversation that connects us with our Ancestor roots. The images are open channels for the multitudes of our Ancestors: our Birth Kin, Plant allies, Mineral teachers, Animal guides and Land Ancestors to commune with us. Earth is a living visual language system - mycelial threads spreading like veins under soil, striated inscriptions written on tree bark, or the sweeping meander of a river are all ancient communication networks.
The Ancestors may emerge through the paintings as communications with your direct Kin, or with the many Mothers, Fathers, Grandmothers, Grandfathers and the Ancient Ones and Earth Ancestors who may come through the images to meet you. They may visit as powerful allies in the form of Animal, Insect, Plant and Mineral guides. Or from even older Ancestral realms of Ocean, Moss, Star, Sky, Mountain, Tree, Flower, Stone, Moon, River and more…
Painting with the Ancestors is a way of receiving these living communications and visually recording the voices of our wise Ancestors and their more-than-urgent messages for us.
Visual Medicine™ will throw open the doors to the creation realms of your Ancestors who are longing to speak with you.
You do not need any prior experience of art making or painting to connect with the energies of Creation.
Come as you are.
The utterly captivating advance of slime mold - filmed by the sublimely named Miracle Workers Collective.
Our first Ancestors are hidden within the chemical minerality of our bones, the shell-like diatoms of our cells, the salt in our blood, the carbon dioxide atoms in our breath. Even slime mold holds these same complex patterns…
About Suzette Clough
I am a trained psychotherapist and artist. This year I am celebrating 54 years of painting - it has been the most consistent practice of my adult life.
My practice as an artist is about learning the language of the material world and how our world not only speaks to us through materiality, but how it wants to speak to us - co-creatively, oracularly and communicatively.
Giving visual shape and conceptual form to Visual Medicine™ continues to be both a life-affirming, and life-defining experience for me.
There is nothing we have to change about who we are to be quantumly creative - it is written in our DNA.
Everything we need is already within us, right here…right now.
What people say about Visual Medicine and working with me:
I knew in my bones I must embark upon this pilgrimage. Through paint, pen, meditation, and Suzette as your sacred psychopomp, I came home to the deep longings that have called my name for eternity. I released the ego; I was no longer in control and became a witness and a creator all at the same time. Visual Medicine is not just a class, it is re-dreaming the past, present & future and you get to be a co-creator of eternity.
Working with Suzette is like being in the care of a magical alchemist, a natural and poignant writer and the most skilled spelunking artist. I’ve been working on myself my entire life and have had more breakthroughs with Suzette’s gentle guidance than anyone else. The best part of this work is that it is colourful, tactile, surprising and a whole lot of fun. If you work with Suzette, you will get to know yourself in completely new and astonishing ways…
Cathy Pratt
Seeing and mirroring. Seeing beyond words. Seeing through patterns, (ancient) lifelines, dimensions seeing with the eye of Source into every movement of paint inviting the energy of Essence into the Here and Now manifesting in the images of the paintings. I have never felt so close to this life bringing energy of the light in each of us. “We are Creation” this sentence still gives hope, encouragement, strength, compassion - ongoing invitation in bringing alignment every moment in our being. Through Suzette’s energy, deep grounded in heart and truly lived wisdom and amazing clarity in perceiving gave me a new perspective in embodied connection with the energy of Life itself. I have such gratitude for the holding and respectful appreciation of each individual in our group, beautiful souls gathering around the fire of heart and spirit.
Hanneke Vink
Words can be such a barrier to accessing the long story of our souls through deep time - but artist and mystic Suzette Clough knows how to guide us beyond the limitations of language into an experience of the Divine that is intimate, profound, and life changing…
Perdita Finn - Spiritual Teacher & Author of: Take Back the Magic - Conversations with the Unseen World
Over the five sessions of PAINTING WITH THE ANCESTORS you will learn how to paint and journal with Visual Medicine™ and to work with the images as portals to converse with the Ancestors as your timeless guides and soul allies.
YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO:
Mix paints and set up a home studio in-a-box! (you don’t need lots of space - a kitchen table or an even smaller space will be big enough)
You will create at least 100 paintings or more…
Create a Visual Medicine™ journal alive with your Ancestor images, notes and insights.
Learn a creative mindfulness practice that allows you to ground yourself in a deeply nourishing creative spiritual practice that you can also practice by yourself.
Tap into the Ancestral oracular wisdom that is held for you within your own Visual Medicine paintings.
INFO + TIMES
Each group is a LIVE session held on Zoom and lasts 2 hours 30 minutes.
All sessions are recorded in case you need to miss a session.
THE GROUP MEETS EVERY TUESDAY FOR FIVE SESSIONS
Tuesday 28th January 2025
Tuesday 4th February 2025
Tuesday 11th February 2025
Tuesday 18th February 2025
Tuesday 25th February 2025
START TIME - 4.00pm - 6.30pm GMT (London UK) - please check your time zones
JOINING INFORMATION
Once you’ve signed up you will receive Zoom links, a MATERIALS LIST explaining what you will need and a short video showing you how to mix your paints, and how to set up your painting space. You do not need a huge studio space - a kitchen table is ideal, or a space on the floor is also great. You can adapt Visual Medicine to work anywhere including very small spaces. I will show you how to do this in the introduction video.
In the first session we will cover all the practicalities of how to mix the right consistency of paint, tearing paper and all that you need to create! There will also be a private Facebook group to share your images, thoughts and insights.
FEES - £360.00
You are welcome to pay in 2 instalments. Email me and I will send a separate code to access the payment plan. I offer several lower cost places at £275.00. Please email me at suzette@visualmedicine.org for availability.
BONUS GIFT
On signing up for the group you will receive a free digital download of my book VISUAL MEDICINE™ - THE ART OF UNKNOWN
I am looking forward to working with you.
BOOK YOUR PLACE HERE
