LIFE’S TURNING POINTS
Threshold Portals
Paint your way through a beginning, an ending, or the space in between. Discover what you’re ready to release and what you want to carry forward.
Explore the Threshold experience
CREATIVE EXPRESSION · SOULFUL CONNECTION
Art opens
portals.
To healing.
To connection.
To a little unexpected magic.
Intuitive painting, creative workshops & retreats
Creative expression. Intrinsic wisdom. Soulful healing.
WELCOME, FELLOW WANDERER
There is something
in you that wants
to be expressed.
Let’s make a little room for it.
You don’t have to call yourself an artist. You don’t need a plan for the painting, or for the rest of your life.
Maybe you’re standing at a turning point. Maybe you’re carrying something words don’t quite reach. Or maybe you simply miss the part of you that makes things, follows a little curiosity, and remembers how to play.
At Wyllow Rise Studios, we use intuitive painting, Art Medicine™, and creative exploration to listen inward, make meaning, and reconnect with ourselves, with one another, and with the world around us.
Bring your questions, your contradictions, your wonderfully human self. There’s room for you here.
Meet Robin, your fellow journeyer
A POSSIBILITY TO CARRY WITH YOU
Art. Nature.
People.
Possibility.
There is more than one way to come alive.
Let’s see what opensFOLLOW WHAT CALLS TO YOU
Different ways in.
Plenty of room to wander.
CURIOSITY & CONNECTION
Creative workshops
Let a color, an intention, or a question be your starting point. Guided creative experiences offer space to reflect, experiment, play, and follow where the process leads.
Step into the creative process
ART · NATURE · RENEWAL
Creative wellness retreats
Time away to make art, find connection, and hear yourself again. Spacious days with beauty, rest, laughter, and room for the unexpected.
A glimpse of our 2027 retreats
What will you carry through?
THE THRESHOLD PORTAL EXPERIENCE
Some chapters
ask us to cross
a new threshold.
A painting can become a place to meet that moment.
A Threshold Portal is a guided, layered painting journey through change. We begin with where you are and what matters to you. Through color, movement, reflection, and intuitive marks, the canvas becomes a place to explore your experience.
As the layers unfold, you choose what to keep, what to cover, and what to transform. The act of creating a portal becomes a way of witnessing your own passage into what comes next.
You leave with your own portal—a living reminder of your journey, what you chose to carry forward, and the vision you discovered on the other side.
YOUR THRESHOLD MIGHT BE…
Discover the Wyllow Rise Way A milestone birthday. A changing relationship. Grief. A new role. A beginning you’re ready for, or an ending you’re still learning to understand.
THE WYLLOW RISE WAY
Intention meets intuition.
Something new emerges.
Four movements guide the Threshold Portal journey.
Within that rhythm, there’s space for your own pace, meaning, and expression.
Waken
Arrive. Listen. Begin.
Come into the present moment. Wake up the canvas, notice what’s here, and give your journey an intention.
Wilden
Loosen your hold.
Let color and movement lead. Make space for memory, feeling, surprise, and the marks you couldn’t have planned.
Witness
Step back. Look again.
Step back and listen to what has emerged. Choose what to release, what to transform, and what to carry through.
Welcome
Inhabit what comes next.
Make from this side of the crossing. Find a small mark, a meaning, or a practice that helps you stay connected to your new present.
Structure to support you. Freedom to follow what feels true.
CREATIVE EXPRESSION, SHARED
A canvas.
A little curiosity.
A place to belong.
Art Medicine brings intention to the act of making. Through painting and guided reflection, we explore questions, feelings, and the connections that matter to us.
For a summer solstice retreat at Breitenbush Hot Springs, I created the Kindness Portal around the gathering’s theme of kindness. We explored the kindness we wanted to invite into our lives—what it feels like, what gets in the way, and what might help it grow—through color, symbols, and layers of paint.
There’s no image everyone has to reproduce. The meaning belongs to you.
Ask Robin about workshops
June 2026
CREATIVE WELLNESS RETREATS
Return to your
wild creative self.
Some things need a little more space than everyday life gives them.
Space for a slow morning. For following a painting without watching the clock. For conversation that goes somewhere unexpected, time in nature, and the quiet relief of simply being yourself.
Our retreats bring creative practice into that spaciousness with guided painting, reflection, music, shared connection, and time to rest. There is room for depth. And there is room for joy.
2027
Tell Robin you’re interested Retreat details coming soon.
Dates, destinations, and the invitation to join us.
MORE WAYS OF BECOMING
Wyllow Rise is still becoming, too.
Other experiences are taking shape: portals created around grief and continuing bonds with loved ones; body-cast portals exploring our relationship with the bodies and identities we inhabit; and collaborative mandalas created in community.
Some may become workshops. Some may find their way into retreats. And some are still waiting to show us what they want to become.
ARTIST · EDUCATOR · FELLOW JOURNEYER
Creativity can help us move through experiences that words alone sometimes cannot reach.
MEET YOUR GUIDE
Hi, I’m Robin.
I’m glad you’re here.
I’m a painter, a nurse, an educator, a traveler, and a Certified Art Medicine™ Practitioner. I’m also someone who knows that life doesn’t always unfold the way we imagined.
My relationship with art deepened when I needed something beyond thinking, analyzing, or explaining. Intuitive painting gave me freedom. Art Medicine gave me a way to listen inward and make meaning through the creative process.
Wyllow Rise Studios brings those worlds together. My nursing and teaching background helps me guide people through unfamiliar territory; my creative practice reminds me to leave room for what nobody could have planned.
I care about creating spaces where we can be thoughtful, curious, spiritual in our own ways, and fully human. Where a deep conversation can sit beside laughter, good music, and a gloriously unexpected splash of paint.
Come exactly as you are.
Robin Sherrell, MSN, RN
Certified Art Medicine™ Practitioner
BEFORE YOU PICK UP A BRUSH
A few things
you might
be wondering.
Still have a question?
I’d love to hear it.
Do I need to know how to paint?
No painting experience is needed. You’ll be guided through the process, with room to choose your own colors, marks, and meaning. Curiosity is a lovely place to start.
What is a portal painting?
A portal painting is built in layers around an intention or question. The layers might hold words, colors, movement, or symbols. Creating a doorway or opening in the painting becomes a way of exploring what you’re moving toward, releasing, or welcoming.
Do I need to be going through a big life change?
Not to belong at Wyllow Rise. The Threshold Portal is designed around a meaningful crossing or transition, but not every creative experience begins there. You may simply want to reconnect, make space for yourself, or follow your curiosity. You don’t need a dramatic story to belong here.
Do I need to share a particular spiritual belief?
No. The work makes room for reflection and spirituality without asking you to adopt a belief system. You bring your own understanding of meaning, connection, and inner wisdom.
How can I hear about the 2027 retreats?
Details are coming soon. Send Robin a note to express your interest or ask a question about the experiences.
PEOPLE · PLACES · POSSIBILITIES
Let’s begin with
a little connection.
Tell me what’s calling to you: a workshop, a retreat,
a question, or simply the wish to create again.
Creative expression. Intrinsic wisdom. Soulful healing.