Beach Paintings & Mandalas
Beach Paintings connect you with the beach and it’s natural wonders, utilizes your body as a creative instrument, and celebrate nature's patterns and rhythms. Beach paintings are a collaborative art making experience that weave together meditation, creativity, community, and ecology in order to create immersive, large scale art on the beach. Working with the tidal rhythms of the ocean, Beach Paintings are ephemeral and last only for a brief period of time before the rising tide washes them back into the ocean.
I am deeply grateful to my mentor and teacher, artist Andres Amador, for sharing this artful practice that ignites wonder and creativity with the natural environment and strengthens relationships and community.
Beach Paintings are available for private commissions, experiential creative workshops, corporate groups, weddings & celebrations, memorial ceremonies, and much more. Please see the possibilities below:
Private and Public Workshops
Experiential workshops to learn and create these large immersive beach paintings together in a collaborative group setting. Come learn to use your body as a creative instrument, connect with the beach, express your creativity, and be apart of an engaging community. This experience is an outdoor movement mediation that will leave you feeling energized, inspired, and connected. No experience necessary, just the desire to generate art, movement, and play!
Team Building Experiences
This experience is designed for corporate businesses, social enterprise teams, non-profits, schools, and any other groups that are seeking opportunities for team building, vision and goal setting, creative expression, and group connect. This workshop is uniquely designed to address your group's needs and desires and focuses more upon team building exercises.
Private Commissions
Large scale beach paintings created to commemorate a special occasion on a beach location.
Wedding Proposals
Large scale painting created to assist and celebrate your wedding proposal at a beach location and make this day unforgettable! Visit the link for a beautiful example: vimeo.com/162680899
Beach Weddings
Paint the beach for your wedding day! Transform the beach with gorgeous large scale floral and creative designs to add a unique look to your special day. Exchange your vows within a ceremonial altar painting. And you can also have your wedding party participate as a group to create a special painting for your wedding at the beach.
Memorials and Grief Ceremonies
Beach paintings can offer healing, reflective, and cathartic experiences. Come together in ceremony, create a memorial altar, and paint a large scale commemorative painting. Gather together in remembrance and feel the cathartic release as the tide washes the painting, altar, and prayers back into the ocean.
Art, Yoga, and Dance Collaborations
Collaborate with me to create a unique experience combining your yoga, dance, and movement offerings within a large scale immersive beach painting.
Other Idea or Desire?
Let us imagine how we can create a unique piece together!
Testimonials
"Kelsi is an incredible artist in every way. Not only are her creations awe-inspiring and gorgeous, she was an absolute pleasure to work with. Throughout the entire process she was patient, thoughtful, and generous; she paid close attention to our needs and worked diligently to design something unique to our tastes. On the day of the reveal she went above and beyond to make sure everything was perfect. My future wife and I are deeply grateful to her for creating such an unforgettable, beautiful moment."
- Tarun & Neesha
"We want you to know that yesterday was a memory that will last a lifetime for us, and you will forever be apart of our lives. The genuine thoughtfulness, love, and creativity you put forth transcended a form of art into something much greater that I cannot put into words. The way you spoke about having put your energy into creating the piece, to watch it be washed away by the ocean, and shared with others - truly moved us."
- Forever grateful, Toby & Therese
"Kelsi is an incredible artist in every way. Not only are her creations awe-inspiring and gorgeous, she was an absolute pleasure to work with. Throughout the entire process she was patient, thoughtful, and generous; she paid close attention to our needs and worked diligently to design something unique to our tastes. On the day of the reveal she went above and beyond to make sure everything was perfect. My future wife and I are deeply grateful to her for creating such an unforgettable, beautiful moment."
- Tarun & Neesha
"We want you to know that yesterday was a memory that will last a lifetime for us, and you will forever be apart of our lives. The genuine thoughtfulness, love, and creativity you put forth transcended a form of art into something much greater that I cannot put into words. The way you spoke about having put your energy into creating the piece, to watch it be washed away by the ocean, and shared with others - truly moved us."
- Forever grateful, Toby & Therese
Partnerships
Local Soul Adventures
I am the art facilitation guide with Local Soul Adventures. For more information and the events calendar for public workshops and team building experiences, please visit:
www.localsouladventures.com/schedule/category/adventures_calendar/
Andres Amador
My deep gratitude goes to friend, mentor, and earth artist Andres Amador for inspiring and teaching me about this creative practice with the coastal beaches. View his incredible artwork at www.andresamadorarts.com