Our work and your work
Lorraine specializes in teaching students how to construct underlying sacred geometry and mandala grids that form the basis of designs made of many layers. You will learn the mystery of grid constructions and how these are used to create a range of culturally diverse stunning circular designs that combine additional geometric shapes within them. These skills and design elements incorporate hidden meanings, symbols, philosophy, the beauty of numbers and planetary reflections.
Yet, they can be made for your personal use in which you make meaning from your experience of creating your design. Please see Portfolio and Photo gallery page
"Sacred geometry as an Illustration of our inner life"
Some traditions propose that geometry forms and the images placed within them are akin to spiritual guides working within angelic realms and effect us on an embodied emotional earthly plane to promote balance, clarity, insight and wellbeing. A childs mandala has a childs pure energy and will work on their age appropriate level for them. An adult mandala in the Jungian sense can touch our unconscious and support healing and insight.
"Mandala"
Mandala designs begin with circular patterns but evolve according to the unique interpretation of the person drawing who is sensing a design unfold. They are rarely planned in full. We have a starting point and then it intuitively moves in its own direction and the surprising new skills, patterns or colour ways that emerge are part of the delight in creating them.
"A Grid is a blueprint rendering that leads to the finished design"
Sketching grid layouts (with some lines being erased in the process) and experimenting with loose pen work, patterns and colours are part of the learning, exploring and design development process. Permission to be like a child at moments is an important inclusion to aid relaxation and enjoy your experience. This featured grid leads to the 'Baba Nakassh' See the 'Portfolio' page.
"Workshops'
At a workshop in Forest Rowe, Emerson, (SAOG - see online). As a tutor, I also attend mandala workshops. When practitioners come together, under the guidance of a skillful tutor, (Daniel Docherty in this instance). We collectively bud fresh ideas, unseen visions come into play and new ways of drawing and their possibilities expand. The work I created because of attending this workshop and the deepening of my understanding of more complex grids could not have happened in isolation.