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Cultivating Creative Practice & Holistic Living Explorations

 

Making is holistic.

The longing to engage with creativity and make is a call not everyone slows down enough to hear - or respond to.

Exploring your creative curiosities and energy - whether through art or any other form of making, tending or expressing - offers a dynamic Way of engaging with the seen and unseen nuances, possibilities, and joy+depth of being Alive.

What is calling your soul to attention?
What changes are guiding this season of your life?
What do your hands & heart long to explore, to express, to be-with, to (co)-CREATE?

How will you respond?

  • Making art, regardless of experience, is an invitation to explore, express, and honor the holistic call to create.

    In the making, we discover so much more than what is made.

  • In the creative process, we SEE and feel connections.

    We Come Alive… to our joy & wholeness, to our inseparable relationship with nature (creation), and to the experiences both within and beyond our own perspectives.

    We see the preciousness of our embodied and spiritual lives joining, holding space, and transforming with the currents of creative energy.

    We feel into the perspective and gifts that are uniquely ours to nurture and share.

  • In the making of art, we fall into a rhythm with presence, weaving material with spirited curiosity, intuition with instinct, experience with beginner’s mind, and our past with what is and what we will be.

    It is both simple and not easy, a challenge and fun. Deceptively arbitrary to those who do not get it, and deeply meaningful to those who DO.

  • It can seem unexpected, as we are making what calls us - or standing before something that moves us - to find our soul feels a little more seen, connected or set free somehow.

    Something RESONATES in our wholeness.

    We encounter a creational intimacy in art, and remember who we are, in our joy, our depth and our truth.

    We may even discover that “Art transcends the practical and resonates within the structure of our consciousness that was designed to apprehend or recognize the Sacred,” as my father once wrote to me.

 
Hali Karla in front of original painting background

Welcome! I’m Hali Karla

I’m a multi-passionate artist and holistic-creativity guide working out of my home studio and garden in Asheville.

My paintings and art journals draw inspiration from the enchanting & sensual realms of nature all around us, combined with an exploratory expression of my inner landscape of feeling, delight, memory, association and imagination.

The courses and guidance I offer are driven by a desire to encourage others to trust, explore and cultivate their own way with creative intuition, art-making and holistic living.

I’m so glad you’re here!

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For Art-Makers &
Curious Holistic Creatives

Your creative practice(s) are your greatest teacher, and can become an insightful, nourishing part of your life.

While only you can bring your holistic living vision and art practices to fruition, I can help you cultivate creative habits and rhythms to do so, and recognize what to watch & listen for in the process that is true to you.

jar of paint brushes and colored pencils

MAKE YOUR ART

My workshops and courses are created to encourage you to embrace+explore your creativity & wholeness, live true to what stirs your soul, and actively make your art.

plant inspired intuitive painting by Hali Karla

VIEW MY ART

Inspired by nature, day-dreams and a love of color, and curious affinities, I paint, collage, and love exploring mixed-media art. I also keep art journals and sketchbooks as part of my evolving process and practice-in-presence.

BE INSPIRED…

Inspiration and resources for your creative art practice, with peeks & musings from my creative life, plus occasional announcements:

MAKE
WHAT
YOU
LOVE

Making a Garden that feeds us body and soul has become one of my most beloved creative projects ever. I’m immersed in learning, it is changing my creative process, and I’m beginning to share some of that journey…

Hali Karla planting in raised bed garden