Michele Cassou

Michele Cassou is a passionate artist and teacher who founded an original method of creative painting. Born and raised in the South of France, she moved to Paris as a young adult to study law, literature, and art, but it was watching the unhindered process of children painting that inspired her to discover how she, too, could express herself spontaneously and without the need for conventional training. From this "just painting for herself," she formed her unique, internationally acclaimed...See more

Michele Cassou is a passionate artist and teacher who founded an original method of creative painting. Born and raised in the South of France, she moved to Paris as a young adult to study law, literature, and art, but it was watching the unhindered process of children painting that inspired her to discover how she, too, could express herself spontaneously and without the need for conventional training. From this "just painting for herself," she formed her unique, internationally acclaimed approach to freeing one's creative potential and exploring the spiritual dimensions of the creative process. A prolific painter and author, Cassou has also taught thousands of students over the past four decades and currently conducts workshops at the Esalen Institute in the San Francisco area and at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, New Mexico. With the people she taught, she has formed a nonprofit organization called the Cassou Institute for Creative Freedom. See less