Reimagining The Past; And Other Miscellaneous Adventures
ACCESS AVAILABLE MARCH 3RD, 2026
A mixed media workshop for healing generational patterns. Learn photo transfer, printmaking & symbolic mark-making. Transform your past through creative practice.
What if the past doesn’t really exist at all and we are just living a version of it over and over? What if we could capture a moment from our past and shift it into a powerful and beautiful memory that nurtures the best version of ourselves? What if the past can be changed, shifted, mined for the gold that is hidden within it? What if we could bring our reimagined past into current time and live from this transformed atmosphere?
Join with artist Kate Poole for a transformational online mixed media art course. We will weave together art making with ritual, contemplation, and creating powerful intentions for a reimagined present moment. Through re-imaging our past in new ways, we'll cultivate new creative experiences. We can see the past in a new light, and bring a present wisdom to what has gone before us.
I look forward to reimagining with you because after all, "merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream..."
Course list includes:
- Contour sketching to hone our skills and practice letting the eye explore what it sees without the pressure of perfection
- Photo transfer on many substrates to capture and work with nostalgia
- Bringing the past into present moment with print techniques
- Various embroidery stitches on fabric and papers
- Explore our own unique marks as symbols for transformation and healing, creating our own marks with meaning
- Develop practices that help us use art as a way to process emotions and to shift into bigger more wholistic viewpoints
- Unique processes for portrait drawing
- Practice collage with vintage photos on both fabric and papers
- Simple weaving techniques to add texture to your art, and wearable art
Techniques covered:
- Journaling and prose to inspire therapeutic mixed media works
- Making your own charcoal
- Portrait charcoal studies
- Weaving over found objects with dyed thread Contour sketching
- Patina paper using ink pads
- Block carving and printing
- Photo transfers used in new ways and with new materials
- Book making with hidden pockets for art treasures
- Gratitude practices
- Charcoal gel prints
- Using rust and plant stains to develop patina on paper
- Learn vintage embroidery stitches
- Stencil layers over vintage images
- Collage using vintage ephemera, family photos, vintage fabrics, rusted metals, and various threads and twine
- Rock weaving
- Simple loom weaving
THE ARTIST
Kate Poole
Kate is an artist and author, and beauty is her soul food. She loves painting women’s portraits, embellished with birds, flowers, vines and plants, as well as landscapes. Snippets from her daily life can be found on the journal at huntermoonhomestead.com, and I she's currently working on a food memoire and lifestyle book. Kate has the heart of a beauty chaser and a beauty maker. She and her husband Rick are in the process of restoring a turn of the century homestead where they host art, writing and healing retreats.
"Gardening has been a big part of my life. I grow both medicinal herbs for my skin care line, Essential Apothecary Alchemist, and food crops, for farm to table dinners for our guests. I look forward to offering a place of refuge, thoughtful nourishment, and lavish offerings from my heart to yours."
