MAY 28, 2025

Discover the Art of Floating Ink: A Journey to Relaxation and Creativity

Are you ready to unwind and immerse yourself in the serene world of Japanese Marbling? I’m so excited to share this experience with you as we explore Suminagashi—an ancient, mindful art form that invites us to slow down and let go.

In this creative workshop, you’ll be encouraged to release the grip of perfectionism and fully arrive in the present moment. Together, we’ll guide ink gently across water, capturing beautiful, organic patterns on paper and coasters.

This meditative process offers more than just a creative outlet—it’s a moment to support your mental health. By reconnecting with nature and engaging your senses, you’ll experience calm, clarity, and a renewed sense of ease.

Thanks for supporting Crave Workshops + Creativity!
Agnes Pierscieniak, founder

“Suminagashi is a thousand year old Japanese technique of ink marbling with its roots in Shintoism, originally intended as a process for connecting human creativity to the flowing nature of water. Using various techniques the inks are applied to the surface of the water. This begins a process of flow where the shapes of the ink continue to evolve in soft, elegant, infinitely decorative forms.

The aim when practicing Suminagashi is to surrender into the natural flow state of water. This surrender creates the conditions for us to be present, to witness the subtle changes in a moment by moment way, and to connect deeply to the essential process of creativity which is to be in flow, like water itself, rigidity melts away as we focus instead on experimentation and play. ”
— About Suminagashi
 
 

NAPA, CALIFORNIA
HELLO@CRAVEWORKSHOPS.COM