a 5-week art residency

From Freeze to Flow

A soft daily structure that guides frozen artists back into their creative practice with microbravery and loving kindness.

with Anna Baer

Anna Baer is known for her. Big moves. Soft smudges. Brave beauty.

She is the perfectly imperfect artist guide to move you into your art practice with ease.

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THIS RESIDENCY IS FOR YOU IF…

You crave creative consistency but reject rigid schedules.
You’ve felt frozen, burnt out, or overwhelmed by your own expectations.
You long for a soft structure that holds you while you return to your art.
You want a guide that honors healing, caregiving, and artistry in the same breath.

Who Am I to Guide You?

Hey love, I’m Anna. 💫

I’m an abstract expressionist painter, mama, and recovering perfectionist who’s learned (the long way) that creativity thrives in play, not pressure.

I’ve spent the last decade learning how to trust my own voice as an artist. These days, I get to wake up and paint as my job, what a fucking dream. Collectors tell me my work moves them, that they see themselves in it, that they get lost in the detailed beauty. Honestly? That never stops feeling like magic.

But it wasn’t always this way.

When I first came back to painting, I didn’t know where to start.
I didn’t have a space. I was terrified of making bad art.
Every brushstroke felt like a test, and I was failing.
I wanted my work to be perfect, and it left me frozen.

Then I became a mother, and life cracked me open.
Loss and love stripped away everything that wasn’t essential, and what remained was a deep, instinctive urge to make.
I stopped painting for approval and started painting for aliveness.

Now, my studio practice is my heartbeat.
I work with inks, acrylics, spray, oil sticks, whatever tonic calls to me that day. I paint big, intuitively, with no plan. I follow the pulse of color and curiosity. TEN years in, it feels easier to paint than not to paint. That’s how I know I’m home.

Before all this, I taught high school art for five years, I’ve got a BA in Fine Arts and a Master’s in Teaching. Teaching is still in my bones. I love watching artists find their voice, that spark that says this is me.

And that’s why I’m creating this artist residency for January 2026, to help you find your voice, your flow, and your rhythm. To hold space for you to make, explore, mess up beautifully, and rediscover your joy in the process.

Because here’s what I know for sure:

When we let ourselves make several works without the pressure of perfection — when we follow our creative curiosity — we don’t just make art. We change ourselves. We change the world.

You’re part of a long lineage of humans who’ve expressed themselves, from cave walls to now.
How incredible is that?

Welcome to the next chapter. I’m so glad you’re here. 🌿

⌇READY TO THAW?

Come home to your art.

Let softness be your discipline.
Let five minutes a day become a movement.

Yes this is for the artist with a life, juggling all the things. And accidentally neglecting ourselves….

❤︎ Enroll now for €999
and begin your gentle return from freeze → flow.

With warmth and paint-stained hands,

Anna Baer
Artist | Educator | Your guide in gentle creative reawakening

What makes this different?

Most programs teach productivity.
**Freeze to Flow** teaches *presence.*
Most residencies demand output.
This one offers *belonging.*
You don’t need to perform your creativity here,
you just need to be with it.

The Gentle residency Plan

Week 1: Winter (Freeze / Nest)

January 20–26, 2026
Let’s start where you are, maybe cozy, maybe cold, maybe numb. Perfect.
This is where safety is built and your nervous system exhales.

Goal: Create a sense of safety + gentle structure.
Rituals: Set up your comfort corner, sip something warm before you make, check in with your body before you check your phone.
→ Tiny, tender beginnings.

Week 2: Spring (Small Moves)

January 27–February 2, 2026
You’re thawing. The sap is rising. Things want to move, but softly.

Goal: Take low-stakes, pressure-free creative action.
Rituals: Five-minute studio visits, little nudges of curiosity, nothing forced.
→ No perfection. Just permission.

Week 3: Summer (Hyperarousal / Play)

February 3–9, 2026
You’ve got energy now, maybe even too much. Perfect again.
We’ll harness it without burning out.

Goal: Dance with the energy, not drown in it.
Rituals: Declare “permission to make a mess” days, and let things get deliciously imperfect.
→ Get lost in pleasure and pigment.

Week 4: Fall (Flow)

February 10–16, 2026
The air shifts. You know yourself better now. Things start to click.

Goal: Integrate what you’ve discovered + savor your own rhythm.
Rituals: Reflect on what feels alive, follow what wants to keep unfolding.
→ Let the work show you what it wants to become.

Week 5: Return + Harvest

February 17–23, 2026
You’ve circled the wheel once. You’ve thawed, bloomed, played, flowed.
Now we return, softer, braver, fuller.

Goal: Celebrate your courage + anchor your new creative rhythm.
Rituals: Create your own “season wheel,” mark your growth, and honour your new cycle.
→ Harvest your growth. Show yourself how far you’ve come.

Daily Guiding Structure (5–10 minutes max)

No hustle. No overwhelm. Just small, consistent, embodied actions:

Check-in: one reflection question (based on the season)
Micro-brave action: one tiny creative step
Closing ritual: gratitude + grounding for your body

That’s it.
Five to ten minutes a day to thaw your creativity, find your flow, and feel alive again in your art. Let’s go baby.

Early Bird Bonus

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tip tuesday

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Early Bird Bonus 〰️ tip tuesday 〰️

Enrol before Jan 1st, 2026, receive 6 bonus Tip Tuesday LIVE lectures. Over the next few months, I’ll be hosting a series of Tip Tuesdays, short, nourishing lectures to help artists move from freeze to flow.

These are for the moments when you feel stuck, unmotivated, overwhelmed, or unsure how to keep your creative energy alive in a world that often feels too much.

Every two weeks, beginning October 21st, I’ll be sharing one grounded, heart-centered talk on how to reconnect with your creative power:

✨ How to have self-compassion when you feel frozen
✨ How to stay motivated when the world is crumbling
✨ How to set boundaries (with family + others) and redirect that energy into your art and business
✨ How to feel inspired again in the studio
✨ Money: finding flow in your business and creative income
✨ How to experience flow in your collector relationships

These six sessions are part of the lead-up to my Freeze to Flow Artist Residency, opening in January 2026, a deep dive into healing, artmaking, and business through embodied creative practice.

THE INVESTMENT

€999 EUR
(or 3 monthly payments of €333)

Starts January 20 – February 23, 2026
Limited spots to keep it intimate.

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hear from former residency artists…

“allowed me to create authentically”

“*Not Whole, But Complete*, (her most recent collection.) was conceptualised during #TakeTimeToMake this past January. This at-home residency allowed me to create authentically and without judgment.’
-Pooja @WhirlandWhittle

Screenshot 2020-09-07 at 17.37.56.png — “best thing
I’ve done for myself this year…

I’ve been feeling really lost and restless in many ways, and it feels good to just play again. To do something that’s not “productive” & not related to my “career” 🙄-
*This residency helped me find a looseness in the material, to let the paint tell me what it wanted to be and I’m just following along.* I started to find joy in it & peace & rest. & it feels good.-
If Anna offers this course again, y'all should take it if you're feeling lost in your creativity, or you've never been able to find it. she's so cute & so sweet & *asks the best, most thought provoking questions. and she's right there with you in the struggle to find your creativity.* 🥰🥰 also, if you have the chance to take it with a friend, highly recommend!”
-Lauren @the.explorin.lauren

inspiring…

“Hi Anna, thank you so much for the workshop „take time to make“. It helped me a lot losing fears of showing non perfect art. *It helped me to trust in my intuition and enjoy to play.* Meeting other artists encouraged me a lot. Recognizing the same feelings and problems and inspiring each other. I’m love your open mind and the lovely way you teach us. *You are gifted to teach and inspire others.* It was so much fun to be part of taketimetomake! :)”
-Janina @licht_blau

a shared vocabulary

of gentleness, courage, and cyclical growth.

These language anchors will live with you through the residency

Microbravery

Tiny, courageous acts that shift everything.
Microbravery is what happens when you show up for five minutes instead of none. When you make one mark, send one email, clean one brush.
It’s not about dramatic leaps, it’s about building trust with your creative self, one small yes at a time.
Each microbrave act says: I’m here. I’m trying. I matter.

Loving Structure

The kind of structure that supports, not suffocates.
Think of it as scaffolding for your freedom.
We use gentle prompts, short check-ins, and rhythmic routines to hold you, so your nervous system feels safe enough to play.
Loving structure is the difference between “I should” and “I can’t wait.”

Soft Returns

Gentle re-entries into your art, after avoidance, overwhelm, or exhaustion.
A soft return is how we come back without shame.
You don’t have to crash through the door; you can tiptoe in.
Make one soft gesture, take one sip of color, one deep breath in the studio.
Each return counts. Each return is sacred.

Cycle, Not Ladder

Creativity isn’t a climb. It’s a circle.
There’s no finish line, no final mastery, just seasons of expansion and contraction, rest and bloom.
If you loop back to winter, it doesn’t mean you failed.
It means you’re alive, evolving, deepening.
We don’t fall off the path here, we return to it, again and again, softer each time.