Combining Love of Art and Meditation

A NORTH Suffolk artist who has been painting all his life has developed a programme combining his love of art and meditation.

Bury St Edmunds-born Michael Vincent established the AshTat Centre for Creative Living, in Glastonbury, after his wife Kaisa died in 2001.

But after returning to Suffolk in 2008, Mr Vincent - who specialises in gouache and oil painting, has exhibited internationally and runs workshops on creativity and meditation - has now moved his programme to Kessingland.

“After my wife's death in 2001, I focused increasingly on facilitating workshops in drawing and painting which would employ creativity to process effectively the complex and potentially life-threatening issues which arise in grieving,” he said.

“Alongside this, my long-held interest in meditation and healing therapies developed rapidly. Within a short time the interest shown by others in this approach to health and wellbeing moved me to establish the AshTat Centre, in Glastonbury, where this teaching would become available to all.” (More)

Source: Lowestoft Journal