The Rhythm of our Days

Your seven days will be a rich balance of dedicated studio time, on location sketching and painting, sensory cultural excursions, and restorative moments to rest, reflect, and connect. We’ll move slowly and intentionally through each project, taking inspiration from the shifting golden light on the ancient city walls and the timeless rhythm of the desert.

There is a quiet magic in this place, found in pattern repeated until it becomes prayer, in a hand-shaped symbol carried for protection, in the hush that falls over a courtyard at dusk. We’ll work close to that magic all week, not to explain it, but to let it shape what ends up in our hands.

You’ll learn how to:

Capture the Spirit of the Medina

• Build a series of small, expressive mixed-media pieces drawn from the textures and warm palette of the souks, terracotta, saffron, ochre, worked quickly and intuitively.

Harvest Fragments of Place

• Develop a “material library” through photography and observational drawing, learning to see the world as a collection of textures.

Read Pattern & Color as Meaning

• Study the symbolic language behind the city’s geometry, tilework, and carved screens, where shape and repetition carry centuries of meaning. Along the way, you’ll sharpen your eye for color, building a palette drawn directly from the patterns and light around you.

Build Richly Layered Collages

• Construct visual stories using your gathered fragments, focusing on the history and “soul” of the places we visit.

Make a Personal Talisman

• Close the week with a small, contemplative piece built around a symbol of protection found throughout Morocco.

Practice Daily Creative Rituals

• Engage in morning sketching and evening reflective layering to deepen your connection to your intuition.

Fill Your Journal

• Create a lush, tactile record of your journey that serves as both a work of art and a sacred memory.

We’ll create in our light-filled studio surrounded by the quiet hum of the olive groves and the company of kindred creatives. These days are designed to be both nourishing and inspiring, a time to quiet the noise and refill your creative well.