About this Event
An immersive painting workshop accompanying Kamila CK’s solo exhibition The Cosmos Within.
This workshop explores painting as a meditative, intuitive and embodied practice — where control gives way to flow, and the act of making becomes a space for synchronicity, presence, and connection to something greater than ourselves.
Working with Enso-based practice as a foundation, we begin with the Enso circle as both symbol and method: a single, continuous gesture made in one breath, without correction. Rather than striving for perfection, we explore the possibility of letting go — allowing the work to unfold through responsiveness, instinct, and embodied awareness.
The session begins with gentle movement and body-based warm-ups to arrive fully into presence. We then move into an introduction to calligraphic and Enso techniques, before transitioning into intuitive painting — where process, rhythm, and chance become active collaborators.
Participants are invited to slow down, listen inwardly, and work with openness — using painting not as a technical exercise, but as a synchronic practice connecting to something greater than ourselves.
We will be painting seated on A4 paper (small-scale Enso studies). All materials will be provided. No prior experience is necessary — this is an open-level workshop.
“Enso, also known as the Zen Circle or Circle of Enlightenment, is considered the pinnacle of Zen Buddhism. Empty yet full, infinite and complete, the caligrapher’s hand draws the special circle in one breath, with no corrections permitted afterwards. It is the ultimate exercise of clearing one’s mind and achieving a higher state where the circle brushes itself, with very little effort and control by the artist. The true creative spirit takes over, and the work creates itself beyond anyone’s expectations.” Glassman, Infinite Circle - Teachings in Zen.
Kamila is a UK-based interdisciplinary visual artist working across performance and aerial dance, abstract painting, and Zen calligraphy.
Born in Poland, Kamila has lived and worked in the UK since 2007. She holds a MA in International Hospitality Management from Oxford, UK, and led marketing efforts for hotel brands before turning to art following her transformative visits to Japan in 2018 and 2019.
Since then, she studied Zen calligraphy under Japanese artist Rie Takeda, honing the meditative Enso circle painting technique, which has become central to her work. Complementing this, she completed professional training in circus arts, integrating movement and aerial performance into her visual art practice.
Central themes in her work include cosmology, synchronicity, Zen philosophy and the ever-unfolding cyclical nature of existence.
“I believe that by remembering that we are part of something greater, we can remember who we truly are and what we are capable of”
Multiple Arts Council England funding recipient, in 2026, Kamila was awarded a National Lottery Project Grand (NLPD) following Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) grant in 2025. Her works have been showed across the UK and internationally — from Riverside Studios, London (‘25), Camden Fringe at Cockpit Theatre, London (‘24 and ’26’), Affordable Art Fair (‘26, ‘22), Firepit Gallery (’26), The Crypt Gallery (’26), Laura I Gallery, London (21’–22’), and Bloomsbury Theatre, London (‘21) to Lincoln Arts Centre (2024) as well as internationally including Italy, France, and the US.
Key milestones in her career also include residencies at Space Clarence Mews, London (2023–26), NG Art Residency, Provence, France (2021) and La Maison Les Météores, Bourgogne, France (2022). These experiences provided the space to develop new works, push creative boundaries, and collaborate with musicians, visual artists, and performers.
Her paintings and calligraphy are part of private collections in the UK, US, Canada, Mexico, France, and Poland.
Kamila lives in Lincoln and continuous to work in the UK and internationally.
The programme is supported by Arts Council England and is part of the UK Mental Health Awareness Week.
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