Vision Board COLLAGE Workshop (18+)

Need clarity? Cut through the mind clutter? Find your way back to yourself or figure out your purpose? Whether it’s for a personal or professional project, ANY time is a good time to start, but start we must.

Bring along yourself and/or an understanding, supportive tribe, bestie, secret-not-so-secret crush, visiting family/friends, soulmate, loved ones and/or twin soul and surprise yourself with the always-unexpected result of a vision board that will reflect that of which you need and want to feel and achieve for a more purpose-filled way forward.

It’s time to treat yourself to where the focus is on YOU for half a day. It will help you set the tone to achieve the holy grail of vision boarding: a bespoke visual piece that encompasses what you are looking, hoping and/or striving for to do and/or feel.

STORYHOLDING presents you with the opportunity to tap into the creation of your very own visual journey where you get to dabble in what some artists may call the dark arts of contemporary art, i.e. collage. Why? Because you’ll be given a free pass to breaking the first barrier of a steadfast rule that’s echoed through most of our lives: NOT to cut up books! In this workshop, you’ll be ENCOURAGED to do just that! From your chosen “destroyed” pieces, you’ll get to CREATE your very own beautiful vision board – A VISUAL EPIPHANY. Like a phoenix from a flame. Gone with what’s not needed - into the future with only what serves you.

I’ll take you through a step-by-step guide in how to determine your goals, wishes and/or plans through submerging into the deep, intuitive flow of clear thinking by inviting you to exercises in reflecting on what you’ve learned from the past year and the parts you’d like to leave behind or take with you. In the safe, medicinal space of STORYHOLDING studio, there will be opportunities for optional sharing with like-minded participants in helping you further clarify your intentions.

You’ll be presented with an eclectic collection of a specially curated selection of paper paraphernalia (vintage children’s books, encyclopaedias, National Geographics, calendars from olde, etc) and led through a step-by-step approach. The deeper we go into the workshop, the more freedom you’ll have, but I’ll be there to gently guide you all along the way, without being invasive.

Welcome to the incomparable thrill of cutting into what you’ve always been told wasn’t allowed, a rebellious thrill that would encourage braveness in creating your true INTENTIONS with CLARITY – the first, necessary step into MANIFESTING them so they become ACTUALISED.

You’ll cut out ONLY the parts that resonate with YOU, that matter and stand out to YOU. The result will be something that will open a clearer understanding to what encompasses YOUR vision/goal.

Groups are kept small (max 7) so it’s intimate, safe and not overwhelming, and light refreshments & French background music will be served. You’ll be sitting in the dreamiest, light-filled studio on the planet, situated next to a stunning pool with water fountains. It’s a healing sort of place… medicinal – a safe space perfect for creating a Vision Board.

Also available for PRIVATE VISION BOARD WORKSHOPS.

Hi, my name is Rochelle Van Der Merwe

As multi-disciplinary artist, I find exploring ideas through storytelling with imagery & words 

via contemporary collage 

a very effective way of connection 

&

creating a sense of 

BELONGING.

Collage allows us to deconstruct & reconstruct the world how we see it. 

It gives you an opportunity to 

create a new universe, 

irrespective of how 

small 

or 

large 

it 

is. 

I am especially drawn to how contemporary collage gives new life &meaning 

to pre-used books and imagery, 

so they no longer lie alone in the corner and gather dust. 

We already have so much in this world, 

so collage offers 

an opportunity 

to 

waste less 

& 

rebuild.

My studio, 

named STORYHOLDING 

is located at the pool in

MONTSALVAT, Australia's oldest continuously active artists' community. 

In fact, 

it's my MOST FAVOURITE room 

in 

the 

whole, wide world. 

Read all about it HERE!

My work has been featured in both SOLO & group exhibitions

As an immigrant from South Africa & as a trauma survivor,
I am passionate about using art-making 

as a way to thread our connection back to
our authentic selves
&
true expression.


What drives me, is to share & learn, 

which is why teaching has always 

drawn me like a magnet.