Integrated Expressive Arts Therapies Workshop - Passages Through Colours: Roberto Calosi

Photo-Therapy Day 2019

Royal Photographic Society – Bristol

Symposium: 22 May, Wednesday 10.00 am – 07.00 pm

Workshop: 23 May, Thursday 10.00 am – 07.00 pm

Integrated Expressive Arts Therapies Workshop

Last Frame Project

The final picture of a story

23 May, Thursday

From 10.00 am to 6.00 pm

 “Passages Through Colours”

Roberto Calosi

Psychotherapist, Art Therapist Member of ICAAT 

International Coordination of Anthroposophic Arts Therapies – Florence

During this workshop I would like invite you to experiment colours' qualities, specially their movement qualities. That is to say the capacity that colours have to activate our senses and to set in motion our emotions.

It will be proposed an exercise in which we shall try and overcome the polarity that exists between yellow and blue by using a red pigment. That is similar to the itinerary which each one of us moves across, between earth and sky, by composing our own biography.

Isaac Newton described the physical quality of the colours (refraction angle) on Optics, in 1700. A century later, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe conceived the emotional quality of colours as the result of the struggle of light in its fight against darkness (The theory of Colours). At the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Rudolf Steiner found in the primary colours the movement quality, that is to say, the spiritual dimension of colours, as light manifests itself in three basic components.

As much as after-image is both a physical and a soul-phenomena, so it happens to what regards the health.

In both cases there is a natural search for balance, harmony, adjustment.

The challenge, both artistic and therapeutic, is to apply a movement which may bring to life the image we all are ourselves.

And I believe we all are after-images of something much higher than we can imagine.