Art Therapy, Ice...and Iceland

This is a course about Ice, Ice Art and Art Therapy in Iceland. The idea for the course arose when there was a post in Reddit saying that art therapy did not seem to be very popular in Iceland. The post was 2011 and I wondered if things had changed. Luckily one of my co-Instructors was going to Iceland on tour and he was able to send me back some information. That information – the films, the sights – plus my own research form the core of this course. Add to that beautiful scenery and original art therapy exercises and you have a course that will show you things that you’ve probably not seen before, give you art therapy exercises you may never have tried and introduce you to , well, art therapy in Iceland, art therapy with ice.

There is but one art therapist in Iceland : Unnur Ottarsdottir so we spend some time looking at her work on children with learning difficulties. Unnur makes a point of challenging the ideas of some of her predecessors. All very interesting!

We look at:

• Icelandic lava art

• Ice cube painting

• Art with Ice

• Shading an ice cube

• Ice sculpture

• Ice cube discussion

You will see films, made by my co-instructor currently touring Iceland - and you will see these films as part of art therapy exercises.

This is an unusual course. An original course with exercises and sonnets written especially for these lectures.

Be enthralled.