Our Approach
The impact of engaging in an artistic life — and the journey of getting there, which is infinite, by the way — is well documented. It creates value not only for you, mentally, emotionally, physically and creatively, but has a ripple effect across every area of your life and, importantly, into the lives of those around you.
Having worked and lived in the arts all our lives, in our respective fields, Kostas and I understand the artistic journey at every level. We know what it takes, whether your desire is simply to live and express yourself more creatively and confidently, or you are on a journey towards developing a career in the arts.
We also understand the challenges that artists face, often alone. The artistic path is not always easily understood by those around us, particularly when progress does not follow a conventional or predictable trajectory. There can be pressure to measure success in ways that do not reflect the reality of developing a creative life and career. Having the right guidance, perspective and support can make an enormous difference.
This is where we come in. Whether your desire is to express yourself more freely and creatively, or you are working towards a career in the arts, we are here to help you develop the knowledge, skills and inner resources to create the life and artistic practice you envision.
We value technical excellence, but we equally value the many non-cognitive elements - creativity, imagination, curiosity, confidence, awareness and intuition all play an essential role in developing your craft and your unique artistic identity.
Too often, we are influenced by what is trending or popular, or by the artists around us. Without realising it, we can begin to emulate rather than express; to imitate another artistic voice rather than discover our own.
Our journey is to search for ourselves in everything we do and in all that we are.
There is a quote that has circulated for some time that captures this beautifully:
“Be yourself; everyone else is taken.”
We are here to help you discover and develop your own artistic identity and voice — not to become someone else, but to become more fully yourself.
We believe that a rising tide lifts all ships. We have been building a growing community in which we support, inspire and learn from one another. Because artistic development does not have to be a solitary journey, when we share what we know, encourage one another and celebrate each other’s growth, we all rise together.
Our aim is to help you become all that you are — and all that you truly want to be — while creating a space where we can inspire and support each other at every step of the journey.
Welcome Home To Yourself.
Joanne & Kostas
Coming from different backgrounds, Joanne and Kostas have been sharing their perspectives with each other for many years, creating between them a space of new exploration, mutual inspiration and creative potential. It is interesting how elements from their work inform each other, highlighting fundamentals from both areas of music and visual art. Simultaneously, visual and mental awareness connects to breath and emotional awareness to create a more balanced perspective and creative approach.
Joanne Harding is a classically trained soprano and a highly experienced voice teacher and mentor with extensive professional performance and teaching experience. She has a Masters in Classical Performance from the RIAM, awarded through DCU, a Music Education Degree and Diploma from the College of Music, (now TU), and Trinity College, Dublin, and has extensively studied and taught holistic practices, internationally for decades. Joanne works with singers to build strong, reliable vocal technique and develop confidence in their voice, their creativity, and themselves.
Her teaching is rooted in classical training and informed by a holistic understanding of the voice — supporting not only technical and musical literacy development, but the whole person behind the voice.
Alongside her teaching practice, Joanne works as an interdisciplinary artist, weaving voice, text, visual art, and musical composition.
Konstantinos Epoimenidis was born and raised in Thessaloniki, Greece and studied in the United States. He holds an M.F.A. in Photography from the State University of Brockport in Rochester, New York at the Visual Studies Workshop, 2001, where he studied with Nathan Lyons, and a B.A. in Digital Media from the University of Nevada, Reno, 1998, with Peter Goin in photography. He has taught and exhibited in the United States, Greece and Ireland, and he currently lives and works in Dublin, Ireland, dedicated full time, to his art practice and research.
Having a strong interest in formalism, Konstantinos explores aesthetics, where abstraction and representation may find balance, between fact and fiction. His work draws on abstract photography, the subconscious and imaginative.
