Merav Shaked
Permission to create
Guided intuitive painting, one to one or in a small group. Paint on paper, with no plan in advance and no experience needed. Nobody grades it, and what comes out goes home with you.
It starts with an intro call
For anyone who wants to make and feel.
Makers whose work swallowed their making, founders who think in pictures, and anyone who hasn’t painted since childhood and still misses it. There’s no entry level here, there’s paper and paint.
You can come with a clear goal, an open question, or something you want to end up with, and you can come with no goal at all, just to express and let go. Both are equally valid, and we decide on the direction together in the first call.
You come in without knowing how to paint, and leave with something that wasn’t there before.
Set down the need to get it right
A few minutes of breathing and settling into the room. Then paper, paint, and a first mark with no decision about where it ends.
Follow the hand
I offer a direction, and the hand follows color and impulse. When the inner critic shows up, we do not argue with it, we keep painting.
Look at what came out
We look at what came out with a good eye, sometimes with a few written words beside it. Not to interpret it, just to notice what repeats.
I think in lines, shapes, and marks, before words.
I’m Merav Shaked, always an artist ∞ and a designer for about 15 years, fluent in visual language. Most of those years I created for clients, from behind a screen. Today I create mainly for myself, and guide processes of creative release through painting, writing, and reconnecting to an inner creative voice.
In client work there was never room to fail, to waste, to stop and say “I don’t know”. Here I let myself do all of it: no brief, no approval, no idea where it would land. That permission is what I bring into the room.
Halfway through, I reached a moment I really loved. Stop with the good shot, or keep going. I kept going. It wasn’t destruction, it was trust.
Liron Amram went through the process with me, and something opened up.
A lawyer, a product manager and an entrepreneur. Not a trained artist, but a maker at heart. She gave herself permission to let go, get messy, and create for the joy of it. Since then we’re also partners in a venture that grew out of it, and that’s another story.
Watch Liron’s story →Intuitive painting is the same agreement, made small and repeatable. An invitation to see with a good eye everything that’s there: the love, the freedom, the doubts, the mess, the mistakes. And to create from there.
I entered the forest, and instead of holding a brush, I turned my body into the brush.
It starts
with one call.
Guidance for creative release, one to one or in a small group. Painting, and sometimes words too. We start with a short intro call, no commitment.
You write to me, I answer personally, and we set a time.
And soon, a short daily practice you can do on your own: PlaySoul →
Artidansel
The forest session, the triptych, the music, and the full story behind the film.
Enter the work →The Portfolio
A decade and a half of design: branding, product, motion graphics, and building with AI, from behind that same screen.
See the work →