Creative Wellbeing

Get out of your head and into your hands.

Gentle, process-led creative sessions designed to help you slow down, switch off and reconnect with making.

Through simple prompts and playful exercises, we explore drawing, mark-making, collage, print, paper and tactile materials. There’s no pressure to make a finished piece and absolutely no need to be ‘good at art’.

Instead, the focus is on the process itself: the movement of your hands, repetition, colour, texture, materials and the simple pleasure of making something.

A different kind of art session

These aren’t traditional art classes where everyone follows instructions to create the same finished piece.

You might spend a few minutes repeating a single mark across a page. Draw without looking at the paper. Tear, arrange and rearrange pieces of coloured paper. Make marks in response to sound. Work with simple printing tools, found objects or natural materials.

The prompts are deliberately simple, giving you space to experiment without worrying about getting anything right.

Sometimes making with our hands is enough.

1:1 creative sessions

A quiet, supportive space to step away from screens, everyday demands and the pressure to be productive.

I’ll gently guide you through a series of creative prompts and materials, with plenty of space to follow your own curiosity.

No previous art experience is needed.

These sessions may particularly appeal to people who feel creatively stuck, overwhelmed by the blank page, or simply want to make more space for creativity in their lives.

Small groups

Creative wellbeing sessions can also take place around a table in small groups.

The emphasis is on slowing down, experimenting and making alongside other people in a relaxed environment. Conversation is welcome, but never required.

Sessions can be developed for community groups, creative organisations, workplaces and other settings.

Schools & young people

I’m also developing gentle, process-led sessions for children and young people.

Rather than focusing on artistic ability or a predetermined outcome, activities encourage curiosity, sensory exploration, creative confidence and experimentation.

Prompts can involve repetitive mark-making, drawing, printing, collage, texture, movement and working with different materials.

Sessions can be adapted for small groups and school settings, including children who may benefit from a quieter, lower-pressure approach to creative activity.

Creative health & wellbeing

My approach sits within the wider field of creative health: exploring how creativity and making can contribute to our wellbeing.

These sessions aren't art therapy and I don't provide clinical or therapeutic treatment. Instead, I create welcoming spaces in which people can slow down, explore materials and experience the wellbeing benefits that can come from making with our hands.

My own practice spans art, design, facilitation and participatory making, with a particular interest in mark-making, print, paper, repetition and analogue processes.

I’m continuing to develop my practice through training in creative health, facilitation, safeguarding and inclusive approaches to creative participation.

Interested?

I’m currently developing this strand of my practice and would love to hear from schools, organisations, community groups and individuals interested in working together.

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