PRIVATE ARTIST MENTORSHIP
Listen. Create. Reveal.
One-on-one intuitive and practical guidance for artists working in any medium who want to deepen their practice or heal creative burnout, and anchor an authentic visual lineage that feels unmistakably their own.
Bring your questions, your unfinished works, or simply the feeling that something deep within your practice is calling to change.
Together, we look past superficial technique to track the deeper impulses behind your art practice.
Utilizing more than three decades of painting and mixed-media experience, I bring a contemplative and intuitive approach to our dialogue, creating the space where materials, color, composition, and your natural pacing can find alignment.
This isn’t about teaching you how to make art like I do.
It’s about guiding you to uncover how you make art when you learn to listen from within and trust your absolute truest voice.
Ready to explore your creative path?
If you feel called to deepen your artistic lineage, dissolve chronic creative blocks, or step out of the frantic cycle of striving, I invite you to schedule a complimentary 30-minute Consultation and Alignment Call.
We will gather quietly on the phone/zoom to look at where you stand, what is calling for your attention and whether private online mentorship—or another seasonal offering—is the right doorway for your next step.
Book Your Complimentary 30-Minute Consultation & Alignment Call
THE BESPOKE 4-DAY PRIVATE STUDIO IMMERSION
A 1-on-1 Creative Studio Intensive
For four days, my private fully stocked Santa Fe studio is completely closed to the public and dedicated solely to your personal lineage, your creative blocks, and what techniques you want to explore and what calls to be worked on.
The Bespoke Studio Immersion is an exclusive, 1-on-1 private master container designed for individuals, leaders, and artists standing at a major life or artistic threshold. This is not a generic workshop with a rigid curriculum. It is a custom-tailored partnership designed entirely around your body’s innate wisdom and your authentic artistic voice. Together, we bypass intellectual performance and tap directly into raw, intuitive expression.
To maximize profound integration and honor your nervous system, our days follow a spacious, unhurried high-desert rhythm: concentrated studio labor in the morning, followed by a 2-hour afternoon break for independent processing, rest, and dining.
1-on-1 Studio Exclusivity & Master Guidance
& Creative Realignment
Strictly Limited to One Private Client Per Month
Note: Travel, lodging, and meals are independent, allowing you to choose the accommodations that best support your comfort.
By Consultation Only
Availability is limited. Investment details are shared once we ensure our energies are fully aligned for this work.
Book Your Complimentary 30-Minute Consultation & Alignment Call
Current Offerings & Creative Containers
You don't have to know exactly what you need.
Whether you're looking for personal mentorship, a creative community, or a self-paced
way to explore your practice, there's a doorway here for you.
Virtual Experiences
Creative practices and guided explorations you can experience from anywhere, at your own pace.
Santa Fe Workshops & Open Studio
Immersive in-person experiences for making, connecting, and deepening your relationship with your art.
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Contact me: lauren@manteconstudio.com
Perhaps you've been feeling the quiet call...
A longing to slow down.
To trust your intuition.
To create without striving.
To hear your own voice beneath all the noise and expectations.
To discover what becomes possible when you give yourself permission to create from within.
Because creativity is more than making art.
It can be a way of coming home to yourself.
If that resonates, you're in the right place.
I'm Lauren Mantecón
Assisting people return to themselves through art, contemplation, and intuitive practice.
I am a professional artist, mentor, and spiritual seeker with an MFA in Painting and more than three decades of experience making, teaching, exhibiting, and exploring the possibilities of painting and mixed media.
Over those years, I have developed a deep and practical understanding of materials, process, composition, color, image-making, and the many ways an artist can approach their personal process. I bring that experience into my mentoring—not to impose a particular way of making, but to give you the knowledge, skills, and perspective you need to discover and develop your own style.
At the same time, I believe technique is only part of the story.
The deeper question is: What are you trying to say? What wants to emerge through you? And what happens when you learn to listen?
Whether you are an experienced artist wanting to take your work further, returning to your practice after years away, or simply longing to explore what making might open up in your life, you'll find a space where skill and intuition, craft and contemplation, can exist together.
To learn more about the paintings I do visit:
Gallery Representation
Froelick Gallery, Portland, Oregon
See What Artists Are Saying About Our Classes:
Lauren pours her heart & soul into her classes and her art. I learned so much both in technique and process.
—Deidra Doan, Portland, Oregon
"Her guidance taught me to approach art as a devotional practice, honoring intuition and authenticity."
—Tracy King , Artist
"With Lauren, I learned that resistance and mistakes are part of meaningful creation—I’ve never felt more aligned with my work."
—Laura Lovitt, Ceramic Artist, Bay Area