Hello, I'm Yvette Swan

ARTIST

I'm an artist, art teacher, and support people through private wellbeing sessions. My creative and supportive endeavours come under the name Simply What Is. I have been a professional artist for over 20 years and have exhibited abstract paintings in many solo and group exhibitions. I have also created works for art consultants, interior designers, and private commissions, and been a finalist in art prizes. My work is featured in an artist collective book, Unfinished Journeys, by Ken McGregor.

TEACHING

For the past 10 years I've taught abstract painting classes to students. We have explored tools and techniques which can be used to create original artworks. These can also be used in any style of art - figurative, landscape, still life, and abstract. It is beautiful supporting people's natural creativity to come out. Learning a foundation of skills is a great way to take the pressure off so this natural joy of creation can easily flow.

FREEDOM/ EMPTY FULLNESS/ UNCONDITIONAL LOVE/ NOTHING

The love of Freedom/Unconditional love/Emptiness fullness/Nothing, which is life, has been the basis of what my paintings have evolved from. I spent many years searching for "something" through various awareness avenues. From this I have supported people through wellbeing classes and private sessions. This love of freedom through avenues came full circle where what was seen was that the "search for something out there", including awareness, was a loop of searching energy - a contracted energy within the body where an automatic need to search, need to know, need to experience happens. A reality in which one feels like a person and that something needs to happen, that "this" (whatever is happening) is not enough. Yet freedom is always this - whatever is happening. This contracted energy within the body, which seems like a person in control and looking out of a body, fuels the search and the dream/ illusory reality that one needs to find something, do something, be someone...and hoping it's around the corner (the rejection of what is, everything happening now). There ends up being a never-ending dissatisfaction and yearning for more from an illusory "me". Freedom/Unconditional love is everything. There is nothing to find and nothing needs to happen. What is longed for is freedom/ unconditional love yet freedom/ unconditional love/ empty fullness is already whatever is happening. Everything is already freedom, no matter what form it shows itself as - no matter what emotions, thoughts, limitations, and experiences occur. Private Sessions are a space to reflect the freedom/ unconditional love which is this, already.

I hope you enjoy my art classes here at Skillshare.

For more information, www.simplywhatis.com, or follow me on Instagram @simply_whatis , FB www.facebook.com/simplywhatis

Yvette Swan

Boundless Freedom!

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