Renewing Light

Friday 20th – Sunday 22nd March 2026, 10am to 4 pm hosted at Ship Studio, Dartington Hall (follow-up course in the planning: inquiries to pfranses (at) gmail (dot) com)

What really illumines our world?

As a pilot program in association with York St John University research on Consciousness Education, we explore How does light show us the world newly? A shared exploration through camera obscura (Tim Russel), prisms (Philip Franses) and the eye (Trevor Griffiths) into how light offers us the opportunity for renewal.

The way we focus on the boundary at which light appears, influences the type of world we discover.

Course team

Tim Russell (Henry Moore photo above) is a visual artist and ceramicist. He also works as a wilderness rites of passage guide. His artistic focus has been working with a portable camera obscura exploring the world as light.

Philip Franses worked at Schumacher College for many years teaching Holistic Science He opens the human capacity to see our freedom in the choices the world faces. In this course he will develop a Goethean view of light through a prism.

Trevor Griffiths founded an international emotional literacy training charity that promotes post-traumatic growth through transfiguring insights into emotional experience that illuminate and strengthen relationships.