Painting The Unseen: Abstraction As Personal Creative Practice

This course explores how artists have used abstraction to give form to what words cannot express. Through story, guided practice, and music, you’ll discover how art can help you process emotion, connect with imagination, and touch the unseen. By the end, you’ll have a set of creative practices you can return to anytime, along with ways of working that feel both personal and intuitive. Across five lessons, you’ll step into the worlds of five groundbreaking painters. Wassily Kandinsky will guide you into vibration, where color moves like music. Mark Rothko will show you how color fields can hold deep emotion. Agnes Martin will lead you into quiet rhythm, where repetition becomes a form of meditation. Hilma af Klint will invite you to trust the symbols that rise from within. And finally, Sonia Delaunay will bring it all together, weaving color, rhythm, and joy into the fabric of daily life. Artwork: Hilma af Klint, The Ten Largest, No. 2, Childhood (1907), public domain. Music sourced from MusOpen.