Season of Reflection

with Amanda Hobbs

For the Season of Reflection, we reflect on our magnificent art journey and celebrate our growth. Caylee walks you through making life mind maps to create tangible action plans for all your glorious ideas. Learn how to create a Japanese Ledger art journal and a shadow box that will fold down neatly into your journal. Follow along the five journaling paths leading toward improved: emotional well-being, creativity, productivity, physical health, and mindfulness. Then learn how to combine written journaling and art to create meaningful and cohesive pages.

Amanda Hobbs

Amanda is a paper huntress-gatherer-weaver, residing near Edmonton in Alberta, Canada. She works under the name Mixed Matter Collage, exploring inner landscapes as a mindful practice towards her mental well being. Amanda believes wholeheartedly in the healing, interconnecting power of art and enjoys collaborating with other creatives. You can often find her in her introvert happy places: with her husband and two dogs, enjoying a walk in nature, thrifting or with her nose in a book.

Meghan Deinhard

Meghan is happily retired after a career as an analyst in the field of education. She spends her days exploring art and spirit in her mountain studio, taking breaks to walk with her cat in their ever changing Idaho woodland. Family and friends are important and she loves to make art while she Zooms with her granddaughters, or her art-ner Traci.

Shannon Yates

Creating things of beauty in her art studio and garden, when it is not covered in snow, gives her pure JOY! Getting messy either with dirt or paint on her hands makes her heart sing. After raising her family and 40+ years in a professional career, she has comfortably settled into a routine that involves more 'me' time, and she doesn’t feel one bit guilty about it. Always, she has felt that she lives in a world of art - all the colours, texture, shapes, movement - we are surrounded by it if we choose to see and feel it!

Joy Malcolm

Joy is a New Hampshire based mixed media artist and bookbinder. Her artwork and handmade books seek to explore the connection between the natural world and memory, the tangible and intangible ephemera that we inherit from past generations, what remains, and the power of place and personal geography.