Workshops
In my past I trained as an art therapist, following which I worked for many years in schools and hospitals for the mentally ill and with adults and children with learning difficulties and with young offenders in a prison.
That experience as a therapist remains very much a part of the person I am now. Over the years practicing as a fine artist, I have always felt the need to return to the art therapy roots and to work with people. I run workshops in schools, arts centres, a prison and most recently in orphanages, residential homes and educational centres run by the Divya Chaya Trust in India.
Kolkata & Delhi Annual visit to Calcutta in India to run creative workshops in the children’s homes and institutions founded by the Divya Chaya Trust, India, and supported by the UK charity Save a Child.
Arts Centres UKWhite House Arts, Cambridge: Workshop for all ages for the “Big Draw” event October. Annual adult workshops in monoprint and collagraph print.
Risbygate Arts: “Unburying voices” project. Working with all ages using mixed media and collage, exploring archival material and personal dreams and memories.
Sudbourne Park Printmakers Weekend workshops in collagraph printmaking. Workshops for schoolchildren with Jennifer Hall
Schools UKSuffolk Craft Society:Jewellery project exploring Anglo Saxon jewellery and adornment with Earl Soham and Charsfield primary schools, “Ebb & Flow” projects with schools.
Eastfeast; To know our world in a plot of land”. A workshop spread over several days with the children from Stoke by Nayland primary school using a number of printmaking techniques.
Ebb & Flow: A printmaking workshop with Thomas Mills high school, looking at the tidal estuaries and sea of East Anglia.
Ipswich school: two-week residency as a printmaker.
many printmaking workshops in primary and secondary schools in the UK
Warren Hill Young Offenders Institution:
A mural project in collaboration with the Inside Out Trust and Sutton Hoo, Woodbridge.