The Container

with Caylee Grey

The Container: Intimate Conversations on Practice, Process, and the Journal That Holds Us

We're starting a year of Get Messy with a Season of Softness.

It's a soft landing, a safe space.

It's a recommitment, filled with meaning and prescence

In this digital retreat, begin by creating a journal to help you navigate a year of Gardening. Create space for ideas, the seeds you are planting... one place to collate ideas, with freedom to explore.

Then dig into conversations with 15 different artists with different styles, practices, cultures, and journals.

These cosy converations will go live daily from 17 →25 January, so check back each day for new inspiration to pull from.

Class Lessons

The Dos-a-Dos Journal
Digital Retreat Opening
Your own space
Language comes after
Creating intentional spaces for art
Keeping it alive in the journal
Collage with words
Your Journal as a Safe Place to Land
When the emotional work is done, the journal is done
The whole self, contained in the journal
Use Art To Empty The Trash
Making space to be free
Treasure collecting and the sweetness of coming back to the journal
Explore All Journals

Caylee Grey

Hyperbolic journaler and imperfect artist, Caylee Grey is also a wife and mother from South Africa. Caylee is the Fairy Artmother of the Get Messy art journal community, book, and art supplies brand. She has sworn an oath to embrace the messy middle and believes that more than zero is enough.

Claudette Hasenjager

Claudette Hasenjager is a mixed-media artist living in sunny South Africa. She firmly believes that art has the power to heal and nurture the soul. Her art reflects the many facets of her inner landscape and gives expression to her multi-passionate personality. It is this deep calling from within that has fueled her passion for exploring various forms of creative expression. Through her art and her creative process, she strives to inspire others to heed the call of their own unique creative yearning, free their artist soul, and find comfort and healing through developing their own art practice.

Vanessa Oliver-Lloyd

Vanessa is a Canadian artist living abroad. She creates spaces for like-minded creatives to explore archetypes, art witchery and the self. Using her knowledge from her work as an archaeologist, she leads communal spaces to explore art and dig deep into ourselves at the same time.