Since 2021, I have had the privilege of living again in my birth place of Aotearoa New Zealand and in the United Kingdom which has been home for many decades.
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Eleanor Jane Campion
I'm known these days as either Elle or Jane. In New Zealand, where I live most of the time, I had to move over for the international film director Jane Campion, so it's Elle, but I answer to both.
I follow the sun, crossing the equator each year from the Abel Tasman in New Zealand to Wiltshire in the UK.
I'm a fully qualified Ignatian spiritual director and artist, working mostly on Zoom. I hold a Masters in Adult Learning (Professional Coaching). In addition to general spiritual direction, I am qualified by the London Jesuits to offer their ancient method of spiritual formation, an astonishingly contemporary and personal transformation through a sort of pilgrimage or school of prayer and spiritual living.
I'm working on tailoring the Exercises into shorter retreats and pilgrimages in everyday life. I am also working on workshops for artists and creatives, combining my two main skillsets.
As an artist, I have been a:
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Finalist in the Tasman National Art Award, New Zealand (2021)
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Shown work at the Mckee Gallery in Nelson Suter Art Gallery and Purpose Gallery, Mapua
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I am a professional working member of the Nelson Suter Art Society
I am self-taught in England, including courses at:
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Dulwich Art Group & School
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Heatherley School of Fine Art
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Royal Drawing School, Shoreditch, London
I grew up in Whanganui and Wellington, New Zealand, and left for the lights of London aged 23. I enjoyed a certain success in corporate life as a public relations consultant before launching a second career coaching leaders of transformational change. In 2020, I returned to New Zealand for a long-planned sabbatical, covering 17,500km.
Newly enchanted as a practising artist by the quality of New Zealand's light and scenery - and encountering something of a spiritual revival there - I was fortunate to be able to choose to make Tasman my home for much of each year.
I suppose I am something of an example of the focus of my work. Since entering spiritual direction myself, my life has deepened and expanded in ways I could not have anticipated. I have rediscovered New Zealand and my roots. I have discovered that a contemplative life is far from sitting still. Quite the opposite. I am still committed to sharing the very best of what I have learned and trained for. And I am most alive when I am painting, but utterly unconcerned about using my marketing skills on myself. That's how I am made.
When you work with me, you encounter a surfeit of creativity, warm and generous hospitality, boundless compassion and a sharp marketing-communications brain. Most of all, I hope you will catch the idea that these lives of ours are a gift and a grand adventure. Yes, an eternal one.
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
Through the unknown, remembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple tree
Not known because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between the two waves of the sea.
TS Elliot, Four Quartets
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