Trust Yourself
& Ignite Your Creativity
To Create your Deepest Art with Confidence.
Some artists create amazing art with ease, while others struggle year after year to express themselves.
Why? Take the Artist’s Archetype Quiz and find out.
AWARD WINNING BEST-SELLING BOOKS
The Artist’s Journey®:
Bold Strokes To Spark Creativity
Whether you dream of loosening up and exploring creativity, expressing yourself, healing and becoming whole, experimenting with paints, colors, and techniques, or surprising yourself with your art, The Artist’s Journey® is your step-by-step guide to bold self-expression.
The Artist’s Journey®:
Creativity Reflection Journal
Creativity is central to feeling alive. Unleash your inner artist.
Spark your imagination in The Artist’s Journey Creativity Reflection Journal with creativity prompts, poetic musings and stories inviting you to reflect on and activate the inner sources of your creativity.
The Adjacent Possible:
Evolve Your Art. From Blank Canvas To Prolific Artist
Discover the science of creativity and the art of the possible- the adjacent possible!
Take your art to the edge of creation and collapse- to the place of poised instability where your paintings evolve. Step into the unknown, access The Adjacent Possible and create art that surprises and wows you.
The Adjacent Possible:
Guidebook & Stories Of Artistic Transformation
Animating the science of creativity and the art of the possible with concepts and artists’ stories embracing the unfolding of their art.
Step into the unknown and exolore the art of the possible in your art. This book connects scientific concepts with artistic practice to understand the nature of surprise. Artist’s stories bring alive the concepts of the adjacent possible.
THE COURSES
Create Abstract Paintings
Explore Your Own Personal Lexicon Of Mark Making With Powerful Exercises
Activating The Canvas™
A self-paced 5 module online course to free up your inner artist in this exciting introduction to abstract painting.
Activating the Canvas was featured As One of the Top Online Art Courses by CreativeBloq.com
Trust Yourself In Your Art
The Inner Journey to believe in yourself & 2 technical game changers to create with confidence
The Artist’s Journey®: 3 Secrets of the Masters
A self-paced 5 Module online course where you’ll learn to believe and trust in yourself, so you can create art with confidence, deeply explore and experiment, and embrace the unknown.
Simplify Color
Explore & Experiment with color with ease and joy. Simplify & create dynamic color combinations
Experimenting With Color™
A self-paced 6 module online course that simplifies the complexity of color. Develop a deeper knowledge and confidence when you employ color in your paintings. Create dynamic, visually exciting color combinations with ease..
Take Your Art Somewhere New
Create Your Deepest, Most Experiemental Art
This exclusive program gives you the support and guidance you need to continually evolve your art.
Live Online Comprehensive Program:
The Artist’s Journey®: Masterclass
12 week Intensive and 6 months of group coaching calls devoted to your inner journey of creating your deepest art.
This is my signature course where we implement The Adjacent Possible® Framework and the ISEE Creativity™ Methodology to create your deepest, most experimental art.
(Using principles from the intersection of art, science, psychology, evolutionary biology, mathematics, theoretical physics and creativity research that most artists don’t know)
>> Enrollment is Currently Closed for this Exclusive Program.
Ready to Create Your Deepest Art with Confidence?
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ABOUT NANCY
Artist, best-selling author, and Stanford educated existential psychiatrist, Dr. Nancy Hillis guides and inspires you as you step into the terra incognita of your soul and face your vulnerability as an artist. She believes that your most astonishing work comes from deep exploration and experimentation. Nancy encourages you to find the nascent, unexpressed parts of yourself, give voice to your subconscious experiences, and finally express YOU in your art and life.
Founder of The Artist’s Journey® and The Adjacent Possible® workshops and courses, Nancy has led over 50,000 students on their creative journeys. Not only does Nancy encourage you to express yourself in your art, she has created courses and workshops to guide you on a tangible and accessible path to your deepest artistic fulfillment.
THE INSPIRATION
Vera took her painting to a new level
Nancy, you are full of life and have a deep understanding of the “other.” You are a fantastic teacher. Your lessons are so intelligently put together! You not only provided invaluable information, you opened doors to a new level in painting and led us through with your encouragement & belief that we can do it. You made it possible for us to venture in new territory & helped us through it!
~ Vera V. Tchikovani, San Francisco, CA, Artist’s Journey® Course Alumna
Teresa has experienced a turning point in her art
“The Artist’s Journey” after 50 years of painting, was the turning point in my work, I have never felt such enthusiasm with my work.
Thank you Nancy for your truly enlightening words and videos, every artist whether debutante or established should know about your teachings.
~ Teresa Pisani
Chrissy now understands the path to her best work
Nancy gives the gift of soul work with intuitive abstract art, moving through fear and into the present moment with joyful experimentation. I now understand the path to my best work, to be able to paint with an expressive aliveness, and am deeply grateful for Nancy’s genuine care and individual attention. The content is presented sincerely and simply, and is deeply motivating.
~ Christine Scurr
Betty found her own style
Not only did I learn about the fundamentals of creating abstract art, but I learned them in a way that was deeper and easy to understand. The weekly lesons, videos, and assignments helped me hone in on techniques through practice. The FB form was an amazing group of supportive artists and Nancy’s feedback, guidance, and support were invaluable. It’s been the best online course I have taken and completed!
~ Betty Franks Krause
Marian incorporated painting with her yoga practice
The Artist’s Journey Course Work and Nancy’s abiding trust and encouragement are the cornerstone of my artistic development. Watching her simultaneously paint and teach is captivating and spellbinding. I’ve travelled from nascent “yeah kind of” artist to one who races to her studio, eager to spend time painting, experimenting, exploring, allowing, and finally, liking my work. Grateful to Nancy forever! Namaste!
~ Marian Bach
THE BLOG
The Adjacent Possible Guidebook: Reader’s Favorite Gold Medal
The Adjacent Possible Guidebook: Reader's Favorite Gold Medal A bluebird showed up the other day. Our newest book, The Adjacent Possible: Guidebook & Stories Of Artistic Transformation won an International Book Award: Reader's Favorite...
Abstract Painting, Fiction & The Adjacent Possible
Abstract Painting, Fiction & The Adjacent Possible Sunrise and Fog. A couple of days ago, a fine early autumn morning, Nancy and Bruce beheld a surprising visual phenomenon. We saw the sun emerge from a typical morning coastal fog bank,...
Dreams Never Die
Dreams Never Die It’s never too late. This last Thursday was a red-letter day for Bruce and his last advisee, a doctoral student at the University of California, Santa Cruz. After about ten-and-a-half years, he finally had a PhD thesis...
QUIZ: What's Your #1 Artist Archetype?
Some artists create amazing art with ease, while others struggle year after year to express themselves.
What's going on? Could it be about how you approach your art?
Take the Artist's Archetype Quiz and find out.
