Painted Key Art Therapy

11/15/2025

Wooo, my favourite Seniors' Community Services Christmas celebration! I'll bring festive snacks, a few different methods for card making, and a festive spirit! Hope to see you there 🎉🌠✨️❄️🎄

✨ Get crafty this holiday season! ✨
Join us on November 28th from 1:00–2:30pm for a Holiday Card Making Workshop in partnership with Painted Key Art Therapy

We’ll be hosting this festive afternoon at Seniors’ Community Services, 215 Sanders St, Activity Room.

Whether you’re a seasoned crafter or a total beginner, this is a fun and festive way to connect, create, and kick off the season. Only $25 per client!🎄❄️

Spots are almost gone, pre-registration is required.
Sign up today at 613-258-3203 or email Mackenzie at mackenzie.blair@seniorscs.ca

We can't wait to see you there!

11/09/2025

Join myself and lovely art therapy intern from the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute Katie Rutledge-Taylor to learn this very fun technique for art Journaling. No longer do you have to fear the blank page! Choose a page you're drawn to and add materials that call to you.

For this workshop we will explore and guide you to learn blackout poetry, collage, and techniques for using mixed media, paint markers and more. You will be able to choose a beautiful recycled national geographic book to start your journey.

You will also learn some art therapy techniques to process and find meaning in the symbols and metaphors of your art (yes, even if its just colors or scribbles!)

Maybe this will become an ongoing altered book club !

All are welcome 16+

No art experience required !

$55 / 2 hours
Saturday November 22 2-4pm
Painted Key Art Therapy
40 Campus Drive Room 108 Parish Hall.

Register at www.paintedkeyarttherapy.com

6/8 spots remain!

11/09/2025

Wow wow wow. Today we came together as a collective and embodied what it means to connect to something greater than yourself. We opened our Crown chakras 👑 🪷 🧘‍♀️ Thank you Cindy from Path of OM yoga!
We let go of expectations and allow the energy and flow to take us. We worked outward from the center exploring containment & expansion.

We are all connected. We are all parts of the whole.

I was lucky enough to go to art therapy school at the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute where I learned from the land. Let me be more clear, I learned how to Deepen my relationship. To really listen, and have a reciprocal relationship. Thank you thank you to the Sinixt, the Ktunaxa Indigenous Elders and teachers.

Thank you also to Sarah West who I was lucky to facilitate nature based art therapy groups with, please check out Earthen Vision if this piqued your interest to learn more and read her book With Intention With the Land: Weaving our Path of Reconnection and Partnership with the Natural World

In Nelson, I learned how to have an even deeper relationship with the land. Of course I always noticed, noticed, noticed , the beauty, and the details, and have always had a special connection with trees, animals, the swamp, and the land where I grew up. In awe of the world we live in.

However in The Kootenays I was humbled by the mountains ⛰️ I felt small and held by their massive ancient forms, a living connection to time and history that stretches on wayyyyyy before I ever got here! I also learned how to interpret the metaphors and synchronicities I saw.

I am READY to share this with you! After today I feel reinvigorated and ready to share this knowledge and way of creating with nature.

🪷👑🍃🍂✨️🪹🪄🐿🪾🍁🌿

11/04/2025

🕯Holiday Art Hive and Painted Key's 4th Birthday!

$20

🌟Please Register at www.paintedkeyarttherapy.com to secure your spot! or you can email patricia@paintedkeyarttherapy.com and let me know how many will attend.

🕯You can drop in any time between 1-4pm however please register in advance :)

🌟Payment can be paid in cash day of (preferred) or e-transfer to this email or on my website.

🕯Holiday cards with mixed media (bring any recycled Holiday cards to reuse and cut up!)

🌟or a cozy winter shadow box - a small diorama to set an intention for your supports and resources this next season ❄️

🕯this is an open studio, you may bring your own projects or supplies, however I will provide a variety of materials to choose from and you can make whatever kind of art you feel like making.

🌟No art experience required! Myself and my lovely art therapy interns will be there to offer guidance for art making

11/04/2025

Samhain
Going within
Trying on parts of yourself
Becoming archetypes

I remember those who are gone
I see them in everything I do.
I hear them cheering me on.
I light a candle and thank them for helping me.
I thank them for teaching me everything they did.
Their gifts are integrated into all parts of my life.
I will carry you with me.

I am divinely protected.
I am on a bridge between what was & what is to be
A gateway made of trees
Becoming
Unfolding
Shedding 🐍
A snakes eyes 👁 are cloudy before they shed.

I can see clearly again
What I can do is shine brighter ✨️
Letting go of what I can't control
Letting it be

The Hermit says to go within to find your light and wisdom so then you can share it with the world. 🧙‍♂️

The hermit says that the path can't be revealed all at once and that once you take the first step,
the next step will be illuminated 🕯🌟

Welcoming "No"vember 🌕
I will create a life of abundance so I can share with others and welcome my generous spirit 🍎

10/31/2025

Happy Halloween! 🎃 🧙‍♂️🗝🪄🎭🦋

10/29/2025

National cat 🐈‍⬛️ day! I love my Kane 🐈‍⬛️🐈‍⬛️🐈‍⬛️

10/29/2025

Last camping from a couple weeks ago! 🗝🎨🔥🕯⚖️🪬🍃🍁🖌⭐️🧙‍♂️🍂

I had a block about neurographic art and zentangles and that sort of thing! Watching my clients becoming frustrated with small details and lines.....and myself becoming frustrated with small details and lines......

and then my lovely art therapy student from the Toronto Art Therapy Institute Sarah facilitated a Neurographic art session at my seniors group, and explained the neuroscience and psychology behind it! And I'm hooked! And my cousins are hooked ! Its very meditative and relaxing.....who knew "rounding corners" would be so soothing to your brain and also help you find peace in something you're working on......huh....I hope I am always open to learning something new and stepping out of my comfort zone !

10/25/2025

Third Eye 👁 Chakra Awaken&Align Art and Yoga workshop with Path of OM yoga !

We're onto something here with movement, meditation and art synergy. Wow. Today we tapped into something incredible, creating visionary artworks.

This is true expressive art. Today we followed the teachings of the grandmother of art therapy Florence Cane. Florence Cane believed that creativity flows most freely when we let go of control and allow movement, rhythm and feeling to guide us. Today we followed her " scribble" directive and free flow painting, allowing our Inner Self to communicate through the art. We all connected to our inner vision, intuition, and insight.

This art is a doorway to our inner vision.
This art is an invitation.
This art contains guidance, clarity, and insight.

Will you join the next Crown 👑 Chakra Workshop? We will be making ephemeral art in nature 🍃

Let us know if you'd be interested in joining the next Chakra, yoga and art therapy series ✨️ Connect to your body and creativity and take a peek within yourself for guidance.

You are so welcome in this space!

Can't wait for you to join us at the studio!

Sources: Florence Cane. The Artist in Each of Us (1951)