Creative Hearts Art Retreats are powerful, transformational, life-enriching experiences. Our retreats offer an inspirational artistic adventure, led by renowned prophetic artist Wendy Manzo and creative coach Andy Hamish Smith, who will guide you on a journey to understand your intuitive process and develop your innate talents.
It’s more than art! This is a creative self-development course. We aim to provide you with much more than an art techniques class in a beautiful, relaxing atmosphere, as lovely as that is, but also give you a greater sense of who you are, equipped with skills for lifelong creative adventures.
Regardless of where you are in your art journey, you will uncover your creative potential.
Come away from the bustling crowds and join us for a Creative Hearts Art Retreat in one of Australia’s most beautiful, tranquil locations.
We aim to refresh you from all the cares of everyday life to release the real you. Relaxed. Restored. Reconnected.
This retreat includes two nights of accommodation (confirmed location TBA), blissful morning breakfasts, five ‘Creative Breakthrough and Release’ sessions over one evening ‘welcome session’ and two workshop days. These are practical and interactive prophetic art workshop sessions where you will explore working directly from your divinely-inspired imagination and learn how to develop your own language of creativity. These sessions incorporate practical, hands-on, theoretical, and reflective components.
Your retreat experience will birth renewed trust in intuition and spontaneity, and release freedom in your painting. You’ll also have time to relax and unwind.
Art materials are provided, and you will take your paintings home. (For your luggage or postal purposes, canvases measure 60cm x 60cm.)
We suggest adding a weekend before or extra time after your retreat at one of the many awesome Brisbane, Sunshine Coast or Gold Coast venues to fully enjoy the ‘away’ experience. The Scenic Rim in Southeast QLD offers stunning sights like Lamington & Tamborine National Parks for rainforest walks (Skywalk, Curtis Falls), numerous vineyards & breweries (Kooroomba Lavender Farm, Scenic Rim Brewery), and charming towns and unique spots like the Tamborine Glow Worm Caves and stunning drives with mountain views, making it great for nature, food, and wine lovers. Or take the opportunity to visit tourist favourites, such as the cafe beach scene on the Gold Coast, Springbrook world heritage rainforest, snorkelling off Palm Beach, eat-street night-life at Surfers Paradise, kayaking to Stradbroke Island, organic markets at Burleigh Beach, or visit a theme park. When our venue is confirmed, we will provide you with the best local places to visit.
For the finer details of what to expect on an art retreat, visit the Workshops page** at WendyManzo.com [** Please NOTE: 2026 Retreat may not be at the previous year’s designated villa that is pictured, but rest assured, your accommodation is at an equally luxurious level. The exact location of your retreat will be advised after everyone’s accommodation room choices are confirmed.]
