1DAY RETREAT
NIKKI MAGIC RETREAT with MARINA DEMPSTER
ART JOURNALING
April 17th, 2026 | 9:00am-5:00pm
NIKKI MAGIC Country Home
Caledon, Ontario
1DAY NIKKI MAGIC
RETREAT with
MARINA DEMPSTER
Friday, April 17th, 2026 | 9:00am-5:00pm
Under the Pink New Moon
Location: Caledon, Ontario
Cost - $555 (Includes BELOVE Art Journaling Kit)
(Limited Space Available)
Join Nikki & Marina for a 1-day Art Journaling Retreat — a day of creative alchemy where your inner world begins to take form in a conversation with your ‘truest self’. ✨
Through guided art journaling prompts, simple rituals, and intuitive mark-making, you’ll create something meaningful while discovering practices you can return to again and again. Marina shares her 3Rs…
r h y t h m / find your own natural personal creative pace — one that feels supportive, spacious, playful, curious and true to you.
r i t u a l / build a consistent practice. Through daily ritual, self-trust deepens, revealing something unexpected within yourself opening space for what wants to be seen and expressed.
r e c o r d / create a visual time capsule — a way to process your inner world building creative and compassionate relationships with yourself and witness your experience, changing the way we notice and understand ourselves and the world around us.
No experience is needed — just curiosity and a willingness to explore. If you’ve been craving a pause, a reset, or a spark of creative inspiration — this is your invitation ✨
WHAT'S INCLUDED
1 day retreat at NIKKI MAGIC Country Home Retreat in Caledon, Ontario with healthy catered lunch, art journaling workshops + BELOVE Art Journaling Kit, meditation, group circle, restorative yoga nidra and lots of love, rest in sacred space.
WHY ART JOURNALING?
This practice is for YOU and only YOU — your process, your expression, your inner world.
It’s not about an outcome, but about allowing the ritual to create space… for something within you to unfold, to reveal itself, to be seen.
A space to listen inward.
To create without pressure.
To return to yourself.
What if creating could feel easy again? Fun? Playful?
This is not about being “an artist.” This is about remembering what it feels like to create freely — to follow curiosity, to play, and to express without pressure or perfection.
Together with Marina, we’ll gather in a beautiful, intentional space to reconnect, create, and come back to yourself 🤍
Expect a day of:
– intuitive art + creative exploration
– grounding practices + presence
– connection (with yourself + others)
– space to soften, feel, and create without pressure
SCHEDULE
April 17th, 2026 | 9:00am-5:00pm
1day Nikki Magic Retreat with Marina Dempster
quiet time | unplug
5:55am Self-Practice Invitation: 30-60min personal ritual before meeting for the day.
8:40am Arrival
9:00am Sacred Circle, Creative Alchemy Drop-In
10:00am Art Journaling Workshop Part 1
12:30pm Lunch (healthy catered lunch)
2:00pm Sacred Circle, Creative Alchemy Drop-In
3:00pm Art Journaling Workshop Part 2
4:30pm Closing Circle
5:00pm Goodbye Hugs
quiet time | unplug
Evening Invitation: Spend the evening at a Hotel to further your silent day Retreat experience (click on this link to see whats nearby!)- you will feel so nourished, grounded and rested with this extra add on after such a beautiful inspiring day.
*please note that above is a tentative schedule and is subject to change.
"If art is the literacy of the heart, then this sweet soul speaks many languages. From her tangible, tactile creations to the images arrested by her lens, to her exploratory way of connecting people, this woman radiates colour."
MARINA DEMPSTER
I was born in Mexico City to a French mother and a British father, raised within an artful convergence of cultures, textures, and languages. With family always far flung, an early inborn sense of belonging across borders taught me to be open, adapt, listen deeply, and seek connection in unexpected places.
I work with archetypes as living patterns rather than fixed symbols. They offer a lens for exploring the shared terrain of being human—identity, vulnerability, resilience—and our own stories mirrored in one another.
Loop by loop, stitch by stitch, bead by bead, my work holds contradiction alongside integration. I am drawn to polarities and to the charged space between them—the interstitial where questions stay open and levity meets gravity.
My work has been exhibited internationally in more than a dozen public art museums and was named Curator’s Choice at the Canadian Pavilion of the Cheongju International Biennale, recognizing excellence in contemporary Canadian craft.
Collaboration is central to my practice. With my longtime friend Christina Gapic, I also co-create BELOVE Unlimited—one-of-a-kind, small-batch sewn garments and functional accessories that bring beauty and intention into the rituals of daily life.
Website: https://marinadempster.com/
NIKKI & MARINA
Creating with Marina is one of the greatest gifts of my creative life.
She has a rare ability to see what is trying to be born — and to hold space for it with patience, courage, and play. Marina has deeply shaped my artistry and my relationship with the creative process. Through our collaborations, she has taught me how to trust the unseen, to surrender control, and to let creativity become an act of devotion and alchemy. She doesn’t just make art — she midwifes vision, turning whispers into form with reverence and care.
Some of my most meaningful creations have been born beside her — stitched, beaded, dreamed, and discovered through a shared “yes, and…” that feels both sacred and wildly alive. Creating with Marina is an invitation into courage, joy, and deep listening, and I am endlessly grateful for her presence in my life and work.
To create with her is to remember that art is not something we make alone — it is something we are brave enough to make together.
We worked on a project together for PIANO PIANO - this is one of the most incredible creative experiences of my life.
Link: https://marinadempster.com/piano-piano-colborne-street-toronto/