Unlock More Studio Time & Creativity with a Personal Support Structure
Are you an artist struggling to find time to create? Do distractions, self-doubt, and a lack of direction keep you from fully immersing yourself in your work?
Imagine what you could achieve with more studio time, clear creative focus, and a supportive framework that helps you stay on track.
Introducing my Easier Creative 1:1 Artist Mentoring Program designed to help you set up simple, self-designed support structures that lead to happier production and more creative fulfillment.
Why This Program?
Many artists struggle with time management, motivation, and the challenge of balancing creative work with everyday responsibilities. The key to breaking through these barriers isn’t trying to work harder—it’s about finding out what works for you, so you have personal structures that support your creative flow.
I know this. I’ve spent my entire art career learning it and have every intention of continuing to do so.
But please don’t get the idea I’m talking about time blocking, inflexible day/week/year planning, or shoving other people and events into tidy, unobtrusive compartments.
Or trying to! Because I don’t believe any of this, in fact, works. If it did, there wouldn’t be entire industries devoted to making you into a more machine-like human.
The structures I’m talking about are support structures, not externally imposed ones. They’re like the solid foundation needed for a long lasting home. The healthy bones, muscles and skin keeping your body upright. The valuable people you spend time with who help each other feel more integral. Or the ways you can change any of this so you can grow and evolve when you need to.
And all your creative support structures can be entirely your own.
Who Is This For?
My Easier Creative 1:1 Artist Mentoring Program is for artists who:
- Feel overwhelmed and need new structures to stay consistent
- Struggle with doubt or motivation, or with enjoying the artwork you’re making
- Want to spend more, and more creative, time in the studio
- Need personalized guidance to move your artistic practice forward
What’s Included?
In my Easier Creative 1:1 personalized artist mentoring program, together we’ll discover the customized support structures your unique artist self is looking for. We’ll work to develop strategies that help create more satisfying studio time for you without sacrificing other important commitments. You’ll get closer to having a sustainable practice that nurtures long-term artistic growth. Your studio time will be more fun.
I have a 40-year career as a practising artist, with skills not only in the studio but also in all aspects of the business of art. With more than 30 solo and two-person exhibitions on my CV, as well as over 50 group shows in Canada and internationally, my knowledge includes career planning, developing and promoting exhibitions, sustaining artist-user relationships, maintaining good studio business practices, and artists’ rights.
How did I learn all this? Paying attention. Finding out what other people do. Practice.
I’ve worked as an organizer of exhibitions and as a curator, and from 2021 to 2024, I operated Grasslands Gallery Online, Saskatchewan’s only fully online professional commercial art gallery, until I decided to close it so I could spend more time with my own studio practice. I love to learn. It’s a core value for me – I take classes, engage coaches, and conduct a self-education practice, so I can continue my own artistic and business growth.
I’ve also been a board member and Provincial Representative (title is now President) of CARFAC Saskatchewan, and a board member of CARFAC National and the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency. I was a founding board member of Canadian Artists Representation Copyright Collective (CARCC). Throughout its lifespan, I researched, wrote, and produced the Saskatchewan Visual Arts Handbook. I’m the author of a Visual Arts enhancement to The Art of Managing Your Career, published by Culture Works Canada. I was a key writer with CARFAC Saskatchewan’s Best Practice Standards for the Saskatchewan Visual Arts Sector. And please feel free to ask any further questions you may have!
To make all this happen I realized, a long time ago, that the only structures that really work for me are my own. Of course, sometimes I’ve had to fit into organizational settings where someone else called the shots! Like most artists, I’ve been a lot of different people.
But for my art practice and my artistic career, I want to be the one who decides what I do next. And the whole thing runs better if I can set things up so I’m supported instead of hindered.
This is what I can help you do for yourself. And everything I’ve learned is at your disposal – to help you create the artist’s life and career you want.
I will give you personalized support, assessment, encouragement and feedback as you make and take your art to the world.
This is Your Opportunity
If you’re ready to make a lasting shift in your artistic practice, this is your opportunity. You don’t have to navigate this journey alone—this one-on-one mentoring program will give you the structure, support, and strategies you need to thrive.
Spots are limited! Secure your place now and take the first step towards a more focused, productive, and creatively fulfilling studio practice.
Here’s How You Begin
You take the first step in your next direction. You make the commitment to your artist’s life. You decide that you want things to be different.
Then you contact me. You invest the time and focus needed to tell me what you’re dealing with, and I’ll invest the same in you.
Here are the questions I want you to answer.
- Your name
- Your email address
- Your time zone or nearest major city
- Your website and any relevant online portfolios or social networking profiles
- Your art form and how long you’ve been working in it
- How do you describe your artwork?
- What achievements are you most proud of?
- What challenges are you currently facing?
- Why are you interested in working with me right now?
- What usual times and days of the week are best for you?
I know it’s a lot of questions! I know this requires your time and will to dig deep. But I can promise you that if you answer them honestly, you will be further ahead.
All responses are strictly confidential.
You can click here to get to my contact page.
How do I work with you?
When I receive your initial email I’ll get back to you with some possible appointments. Once we set up our first date, I’ll send you an invoice.
Your investment: $385 CAD paid by e-transfer for three one-hour calls via Zoom, over a period of more-or-less three months.
This program gets results. My clients make the changes they’ve been dreaming of.
Are you ready to do the same thing?
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Laureen Marchand – Artist, Teacher, Artist Mentor
I always loved what I called making things, but as I was growing up I never met an artist or saw an original piece of art. Then, in eleventh grade, a new girl moved to my school—a girl who had spent her childhood in galleries and art classes. With her as my new sense of what was possible, I began college two years later as a painting major in a BFA program. Since then my art career has taken many twists and turns, but this has always been where my heart is and where all other goodness comes from.
Now I live and work in Val Marie, Saskatchewan, gateway to Grasslands National Park and one of Canada’s most beautiful and remote regions, where I paint full time. Inspired by the region’s subtlety and fragile beauty, my paintings reflect on the importance of the daily experiences we take for granted. Though these paintings look realistic, they’re not just about surface appearances. I believe that if I can paint someone or something so it looks the most like itself, it might help the viewer see not just the painting’s subject, but their own relationship to it.
My exhibition career spans over 40 years and more than 30 solo and two-person exhibitions as well as over 50 group shows. My paintings have been recognized by the Saskatchewan Arts Board and the Canada Council, are held in many public and private collections, and have been represented in exhibition catalogues and reviewed in newspapers and magazines. I have contributed widely to Canada’s artistic community as organizer, teacher, mentor, writer, and curator. I hold the Canadian Artists Representation “Tony” Award for service to the visual arts in Saskatchewan and the Centennial Leadership Award for Service to the Province of Saskatchewan.
Contact me here.