{"product_id":"the-naked-artist-journey-7-steps-to-peel-back-the-layers-rediscover-your-joy-through-art-and-creative-self-expression-by-maralyn-nash","title":"The Naked Artist Journey: 7 Steps to peel back the layers \u0026 rediscover your joy through art and creative self-expression by Maralyn Nash","description":"\u003cp\u003eMaralyn Nash is a professional Artist, Art Therapist and Author. She is a pioneering graduate from the Master of Arts (Art Therapy) program at Western Sydney University in 1995-96 and has a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) from La Trobe University, Victoria in 1980.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaralyn has over 30 years’ experience in teaching visual arts and working as an art therapist as well as exhibiting her artworks regularly in group and solo art exhibitions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaralyn’s book The Naked Artist Journey is the story of her life through art, adventurous travel and art therapy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe inspiration to write this book originated from a long ago travel memory as a hippie in the medieval kingdom of 1970s Kathmandu and discovering a very magical book on mandalas in a bookshop tucked away in a winding laneway off Durbar Square.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter art school, non-western art, spirituality and a bohemian lifestyle became her artist’s muse with an exotic array of adventurous journeys throughout India, Africa, Egypt, Greece and the Pacific Islands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForming a creative backdrop for the rest of her book, Maralyn has written expressively on the early days of being a pioneering Art Therapist in Sydney onto many twists and turns overcoming numerous challenges in later life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaralyn has further divided her book into seven sections to represent the seven colour chakra mandalas with a series of art therapy creativity exercises divided into four parts at the end of every mandala section to inspire the reader on their own creative, healing journey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom an art therapy perspective, Maralyn is a passionate believer that art and creative expression has the power to help us communicate and reconnect with ourselves in deeply healing ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaralyn’s book and website also features her mandala paintings, mixed media collage drawings and an iconic series of vintage travel boxes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe is available for art commissions, mandala workshops, individual sessions and conference presentations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"InHouse Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51283661324566,"sku":"9781923277489","price":65.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0983\/7340\/2902\/files\/9781923277489.jpg?v=1777962240","url":"https:\/\/www.inkwoodandivy.com.au\/products\/the-naked-artist-journey-7-steps-to-peel-back-the-layers-rediscover-your-joy-through-art-and-creative-self-expression-by-maralyn-nash","provider":"Inkwood \u0026 Ivy Books and Curiosities","version":"1.0","type":"link"}