As a certified Creative Mindfulness Coach with a Diploma of Modern Psychology, my area of expertise is using creativity and positive psychology to help you to understand yourself. This is a priority because once you do that, then it is safe to accept yourself. Once accepted it becomes possible to change yourself. Then it is a case of defining what that change is. By visualising the change with the creative momentum required to convince your subconscious of it as a possibility, it can then become a reality. I use a mixture of creative exercises and solution focused therapy. Alongside this is meditation and creative visualisation over a period of three months to reinforce your results. Have a look HERE at how I can help and get in touch if you want to chat.
I paint from expression most of the time. Sometimes I envisage what I want to create first, other times I am curious to see what comes out on the canvas, it is interesting to see what my emotional landscape looks like.
I use photographic transfer, collage or stitch. Recycled canvases and unusual materials. Often there is a sparkly, reflective or iridescent element. It will catch your attention in different ways according to position and the light.
I have a range of custom positivity paintings available to order.
My first exhibition was in 2000 in the old Aldwych Tube Station in London. In 2019 I was shortlisted for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
Writing
I frequently find I have to write things down, words land in my head and stories become lodged until I release them.
I love the creative space it affords me, I often freewrite as part of the creative visualisation process and I use these techniques in my coaching practice. It is incredible what we can learn about ourselves from ourselves when we provide the space to listen. Even much of my fiction writing seems to teach me so many things when I read it back. It is a great process which I would definitely recommend.
During 2020/21 I wrote a blog with Psychologies magazine which I have since turned into an ebook. In 2021 I reached the top 10% of entries in the Bridport prize in both the fiction and poetry categories. I also write a blog/newsletter.
If any of this has inspired you to go on a journey into your own creativity and self discovery, then get in touch to talk about coaching. If you don’t feel ready for that but want to dip your toes in, then try a course or a creative meditation to test the water. If you want to know what I get up to from one week to the next in and out of my studio, then sign up to my newsletter for all the inside knowledge plus the odd freebie, discounts and exercises you can try. If you sign up to the paid version (£5/m) you get 10% off anything on the website.