Active Imagination and Emerging Image Painting
with artist Susy Sanders

Emerging Image Painting is a form of active imagination, a conduit for bringing the unconscious into consciousness. The images that emerge from cloud-like beginnings and are fully unplanned. They continue to reveal themselves throughout the painting process, as in a wordless dialogue. Much like a waking dream, these images then present opportunity for reflection, interpretation, and further dialogue.

Susy will share this process using a slide presentation, examples of images, and in vivo imagination as projected onto a prepared canvas. Participants will be invited to reflect on the images and the emerging image process.

Susy Sanders, PhD is a clinical psychologist and artist with a private practice and retreat center in Phillips, ME. She has studied Jungian and depth psychological theory since the age of 18, in 1971, beginning with the Wilhelm Edition I Ching.