Katheryn Trenshaw
Katheryn Trenshaw, the founder and creative director of the Passionate Presence Center for Creative Expression, is an American-born UK-based international artist, author, celebrant, speaker, film-maker and facilitator who has been offering workshops and consulting for more than 40 years.
She has been a professional artist for over 45 years and holds two BA Hons in French & Psychology, as well as a host of postgraduate study in academics, arts, movement, and trauma-informed somatics.
As a teacher, facilitator and consultant, Katheryn has a rare gift for encouraging expressive risk-taking within a safe setting. Her contagious passion for life and her ability to encourage celebration and making the everyday sacred are hallmarks of her work. Her lectures, workshops and exhibitions worldwide are a testament to inspiring and connecting with people from all around the globe.
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The Artist
“The media in which I work are magical ones: the unpredictable qualities of raku-fired ceramics and wet-washed watercolours that often seem to have a life and message of their own to blend with mine. The silent, solitary and contemplative time that precedes the execution of my work is a process of ‘remembering’ and honouring the primeval connections for which I become a translator.
It is attentiveness to the simple sacred moments of living that evolves into the sensuous forms, vivid colours and contemporary connection with ancient energies that comprise my work. In this way my life is my work, and my work is my life.”
Katheryn Trenshaw is a fine artist of international repute. She is American born and received her BA degrees from Michigan State University and L’Universite Haute Bretagne, France. For more than 40 years her work has been exhibited extensively throughout the US and Europe. Concentrating largely on watercolour painting, print-making and ceramic sculpture. She has received critical acclaim both as a painter and a sculptor.
Being involved in the creative arts since she discovered her opposable thumb, Katheryn redefines art as a way of living and inspires people to recreate their own lives as works of art, tapping into it as a vehicle for the soul’s expression. Her continuous commitment to personal growth through living her life as art enables the creations to come from a deep, integral place. People resonate with the simplicity of the images and the magical quality they imbue into the every day.
Katheryn has a new In Your Own Skin book available at Amazon. This is part of a large community multimedia art project including a documentary (currently being crowdsourced) and an exhibition. In Your Own Skin connects us all by revealing hidden truths from around the world. With her camera, body paint, and the quest to explore how people choose to show themselves to the world, Katheryn Trenshaw, photographer, documentarian, and artist, approaches total strangers and asks: What is true of you that is not obvious to strangers? The results are fascinating and frequently very touching. Katheryn's unique and sensitive approach has now created nearly 150 portraits of subjects from more than thirty countries and all walks of life. These will eventually form a touring exhibition and screenings.
The Teacher
The Educator, Inspiratrice and Evocateur of Presence and Possibility
Katheryn Trenshaw is the founder and creative director of the Passionate Presence Center for Creative Expression.
She is an international artist, speaker, author, and radical well-being facilitator who has offered, for over 45 years, training and facilitation in movement, art and personal development particularly focused on awakening as embodied consciousness. She conducts educational events, workshops, multimedia projects and undertakes consulting for individuals, groups and organisations in the United States, Europe, Asia and around the world. She is also a celebrant from time to time for select clients.
Katheryn has a rare gift for encouraging expressive risk-taking within a safe setting. Her contagious passion for life and her ability to encourage celebration and making the everyday sacred are hallmarks of her work. Her numerous lectures, workshops and worldwide exhibitions are testament to this, where she has connected to people from all around the globe.
Her touring exhibition, Breaking the Silence, depicting the traumatic effects of sexual abuse and the subsequent struggle towards healing through 100 raku masks, had a dramatic impact on both the media and the public in the early nineties. The resulting publicity catapulted Katheryn onto the international lecture and workshop circuit. Her talks and teachings on art, therapeutic creativity and women’s issues are currently in great demand.
All of Katheryn’s work is also deeply rooted in nearly four decades of somatic movement, and embodied consciousness.
“I love dancing with paradox. From this viewpoint I can see how we connect and are joined by our commonalities. My work is about giving expression to authentic human experience – of change and transformation, relationships to people and nature and responding to the numinous ancient wisdom that seeks our attention.”
Some of her projects include: The multimedia In Your Own Skin Project with a new book available from Amazon. The 10 year tour of the Breaking the Silence Project offers healing through illustrated talks, mask-making and workshops, and includes an upcoming book.
And her most recent adventure, Facing Death: a Radical Well-Being Sabbatical, facing death and realising more than ever how precious and juicy life is. This informs and underpins every single moment and all of the work and depth of presence that Katheryn unflinchingly offers.