COLOURING SPACES
painting together
LIMITED EDITION 2024 CALENDER
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LIMITED EDITION 2024 CALENDER ⋆
cOLLABORATIVE PAINTING
& ECO-FRiendly murals
BECAUSE ART IS THERAPY.
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Eco-friendly, hyper-realistic & hand-painted custom murals by Nicki Deux.
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Colour in Nicki’s lines: Colour-by-numbers style eco-murals, outline drawn by Nicki Deux, spaces hand-painted by ALL of your community.
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No wall? No worries! Collaborative eco-mural painting on canvas for take-away! Outline drawn by Nicki Deux, spaces hand-painted by ALL of your community.
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Collaborative painting, visual and performing art events.
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Nicole “Nicki Deux” Blanchard (MA Design for Social Innovation & Sustainable Futures) is an Associate Lecturer in Design at University of the Arts London.
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Learn to direct Participatory Eco-Muralism yourself with Nicki’s Handbook: The Cure-All MurALL.
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Custom Painting and Illustration Commissions by Nicki Deux: Hyper-realistic Portraits, Pet Portraits, Landscapes, Florals and more!
COLOURING SPACES SERVICES:
COLOURING SPACES:
creating community
We believe that ART IS THERAPY
so we make our painting process
healthy & accessible
for diverse communities:
1.We CO-DESIGN our Murals with locals from the communities where we paint.
2. We TEACH locals to paint our murals with us through an accessible, customised, colouring-book style, colour-by-numbers system.
3. We use ECO-FRIENDLY paint and supplies.
MAKING
MURALS
HEALTHY
for the painters
& the planet
EYE HEALTH: While white walls cause anxiety and make focusing difficult, colourful murals improve vision and concentration because they mimic nature, where our eyes originally evolved to see.
MENTAL HEALTH: Our Murals provide eco-therapy and Colour-therapy, bringing colours from nature.
Furthermore, the process of Painting is a mindfulness practice proven to reduce stress, expand creativity, boost memory and confidence, enhance motor skills and creative problem solving, and gently release trauma through self-expression.
SOCIAL HEALTH: Group Art Therapy like Participatory Muralism provides a platform for collaborative self-expression, comradery and accountability, building bridges amongst diverse communities, while taking part in the designing and painting of a large-scale mural project is empowering and revitalising to the community as well as their physical space.
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: Did you know that acrylic and latex paints are the leading cause of micro-plastics in our water?
While Spray paint releases toxic VOC’s (Volatile Organic Compounds) into our atmosphere and is harmful to painters respiratory health.
Our Murals are hand-painted with Lakeland Paints, a non-toxic, plastic-free, local paint that has been around for 30 years and is so safe you can eat it!
Learn more here: Lakeland Paints
When we cannot use Lakeland, we utilise recycled traditional paint and responsible paint water disposal methods to insure that micro-plastics do not pollute local water systems.
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR PROCESS OR LEARN HOW TO DEUX IT YOURSELF, CHECK OUT…
