visualise,
create,
Become:
Image by Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf
Full-day creative retreat in central Lisbon using self-portraiture and collage to explore identity and visualize your future.
Discover the power of self-portraiture and collage in this transformative one-day workshop. Guided by professional visual artists Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf and Nina Fraser, you'll explore your identity through art making, visualisation techniques, storytelling and journaling, crafting a unique vision board that reflects both your current self and future aspirations.
Through cutting, layering and arranging images, you'll embark on a deep dive into self-exploration, engaging both your conscious desires and subconscious wisdom. The workshop incorporates photography, mixed media collage, and guided visualization exercises to create a powerful tool for personal growth.
Ideal for anyone seeking creative self-discovery, whether you're an experienced artist or completely new to the process.
Are you interested in harnessing the power of image to reignite your motivation, unlock hidden strengths, and help you explore your own version of self and success?
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Life can get busy, and we lose time for reflection and intention-setting — to envision not just the life we want but the person we aspire to become. Neuroscience shows that the act of creating a clear and emotionally resonant vision can engage your brain’s neuroplasticity, helping to align your thoughts, emotions, and actions toward achieving that vision. This workshop is an invitation to channel these insights and dive deep into self-exploration using mixed media collage-making.
Multidisciplinary artists Nina Fraser and Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf, who specialise in collage and self-portraiture respectively, will guide you through a creative process using your own self-portrait as the foundation for a powerful vision board. Self-portraiture has long been used as a potent tool for self-exploration and expression. Throughout history, artists like Rembrandt, Van Gogh and Cindy Sherman have turned the lens or brush on themselves to capture their identity and emotions.
Creating self-portraits allows us to reflect on who we are, discover our unique voice, and challenge the ways we see ourselves and how others perceive us. It offers a space for self-discovery and reimagining personal and cultural narratives.
This vision board will not only reflect who you are now but also the future self you are actively manifesting, inspiring joy and solid steps towards action and empowerment. Through a powerful combination of techniques derived from art practices, storytelling, journaling and creative visualisation we will explore together, in a small supportive group, our own challenges and hidden strengths that will help us to create our very own artwork to take home as a lasting resource for change.
OBJECTIVES
Defining Your Ideal Self: Use the collage action board as a “portrait” of your ideal self, combining visuals and affirmations that represent who you want to become, not just what you want to achieve.
Visualizing the Best Version of You: Incorporate images of yourself (e.g., photographs or artistic self-portraits) into the board, surrounded by symbols of your goals. This helps align your self-image with your aspirations.
Rewiring Self-Perception: Pair visual cues with affirmations about your strengths, capabilities, and potential to reinforce a positive and empowered self-image.
Image by Chris Murchison
details
This intimate experience (limited to 7 participants, including 1 scholarship spot) includes:
All art materials and prints of yourself for your collage
A nourishing lunch and refreshments provided by our friends at Maria's Food Hub
Expert guidance in a small confidential group setting (max. 7 participants)
Neuroscience-backed techniques to help manifest your goals
Your finished artwork to take home as an ongoing inspiration
This one day work-shop is running on two alternative dates:
24th May 2025 / 7th June 2025
Duration: 7 hours (10am—5pm)
Numbers of participants: minimum 4, maximum 7
Location: Clarity Therapy The Practice, Rua Poeta Milton 32 - Lisbon
What you will need to bring: Digital photos of yourself (on a phone, USB stick, or cloud storage—no prints needed)
Prerequisites: Open to participants of all skill levels, no prior experience needed
24 May 2025
€180
10am - 5PM
7 June 2025
€180
10am - 5PM
Scholarship Opportunity:
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Scholarship Opportunity: *
We offer 1 fully-funded position for each workshop date to ensure accessibility. To apply:
Message us with a brief statement about why this workshop calls to you.
facilitators
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Nina Fraser is a multidisciplinary artist, mentor and cultural facilitator whose art practice explores ideas of transformation and connection through expanded notions of collage and drawing practices. She completed a BA in Textile Art at Winchester School of Art in 2006 and a masters level course in Commissioning and Curating Contemporary Public Art from the University of Gothenburg in 2023.
Nina co-creates projects and practical structures to improve our social and human experience, often working collaboratively within communities or non profit associations. In 2022 she founded Collage Working Club, a weekly workspace that explores both collage technique and ways of thinking, creating connections across disciplines and borders. Nina currently works as artist coordinator for Art & Craft Refúgio, a project situated within Jardins do Bombarda cultural and community centre in Lisbon, integrating refugees and migrants through the teaching and sharing of arts & crafts practices. Nina has taught portraiture to medical students at University of Southampton, UK, and has facilitated over 100 collage workshops internationally since 2017, in locations such as Collagistas festival, Maison du Peuple de Saint - Gilles, Belgium, NOVA business School, Lisbon, and Largo Residências, Lisbon. Nina’s collages have been published in magazines and books, including, "Collage by Women, 50 Essential Contemporary Artists" edited by Promopress, in 2019, and “Collage Care: Transforming Emotions & Life Experiences” edited by Kanyer Art Collection, 2021. Nina began professional work as a mentor in 2023, working one-to-one with artists and creatives looking to grow their artistic practice.
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Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf is an interdisciplinary artist and curator whose work focuses on mirrors and self-portraiture to explore the complexities of womanhood—both its visceral realities and societal implications. She has developed a distinctive physi-digital mixed media technique that addresses themes of identity, self-image, and digital representation.
Fontaine-Wolf earned her Master's degree (University of the Arts London, Wimbledon/2015/UK) and a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts (University for the Creative Arts/2004/UK). She received the Chelsea Arts Club Trust Award, and was selected as a finalist for the Sovereign Portuguese Art prize 2024. Fontaine-Wolf’s works have been acquired by significant public and private collections like the Berardo Collection and the Coleção de Arte Moderna e Contemporânea — Norlinda e José Lima in Portugal, the Collection De Gambs in Germany and the Standard Chartered Bank in the UK.
She is the co-founder and director of InFems, a feminist art collective, through which she has curated several exhibitions, including Lost Girls at Flowers Gallery during Frieze Week 2023, featuring artists such as Ai Weiwei, Maggi Hambling, and Tracey Moffatt.
She has exhibited at institutions such as the V&A Museum and the Royal College of Art in London, and at Haus Kunst Mitte in Berlin, where she held her first institutional solo show in 2024.
Her work has been widely recognized, with features in major publications including Forbes, The Guardian, and the BBC. She was highlighted in Hauser & Wirth’s Herstory series, which celebrates women's contributions to contemporary art, and in 2022, she was commissioned by Carolina Herrera for International Women’s Day. She also served as vice-president of the Society of Women Artists.

Image by Nina Fraser
Collage is a powerful holistic tool that utilises images to literally cut through to the subconscious. It can help you find a way to bridge the gap between where you are and where you want to be. By working directly with your self-image, you’ll engage in a tactile and intuitive process to embody what you wish to achieve and become in 2025 and beyond. Combining symbols, colors, and textures, we’ll activate the power of your subconscious, your brain’s hidden reward and motivation centers, harnessing the science of visualization and the transformative power of art.
