Connecting creativity, nature and community through inclusive arts and learning experiences for all ages.
I facilitate creative, inclusive workshops that bring people together through art, learning, and community connection. Working with all ages, from young children to older adults. I design engaging, creative process-led experiences through mixed media, drawing, painting, sculpture, crafts and creative exploration.
My workshops can connect creativity with the natural world, exploring themes such as trees, rivers, habitats, food, farming, wellbeing and climate awareness. Sessions can be tailored for schools, community groups, alternative education settings, family events, and health and wellbeing programmes, with activities linked to the National Curriculum where appropriate.
Whether building dens and creating woodland art, exploring local rivers through creative learning, supporting young carers, delivering arts coaching for young people, or facilitating weekly wellbeing sessions for adults, my aim is to inspire curiosity, creativity, confidence, and meaningful connections between people, place and community.
Recent Projects
Recent projects have included creative workshops with young carers exploring food and farming, educational tree planting and climate awareness programmes, river and stream learning projects, woodland arts sessions for children, family beach workshops, arts coaching for young adults in alternative education, curriculum-linked creative arts school projects and weekly creative wellbeing arts sessions for adults. Each creative experience is curated to foster creativity, connection, learning and a deeper relationship with artistic confidence and self-belief.
Previous Workshops and Projects
I have designed and delivered a wide range of creative, educational, and nature-based workshops for schools, community groups, charities, families and wellbeing programmes.
Previous projects include:
- Creative workshops with young carers, exploring connections between food, farming, wellbeing, and the environment through hands-on arts activities.
- Tree planting and learning programmes, combining creative activities with environmental education, exploring the benefits of trees for biodiversity, climate change mitigation, mindfulness and wellbeing.
- River and stream education projects, helping participants discover local waterways through creative arts, environmental learning, observation and storytelling.
- Woodland-based creative sessions for children, inspired by Forest School principles, including den building, natural sculpture, environmental art and creative play using found and natural materials.
- Family beach workshops, delivering drop-in creative arts sessions during school holidays that encourage exploration, creativity and connection with the natural environment.
- Bespoke arts projects in primary schools, linking creative activities to National Curriculum topics across science, geography, history, literacy and environmental education.
- Arts coaching and mentoring for young adults in alternative education settings, supporting confidence, self-expression, creativity and personal development.
- Weekly health and wellbeing creative arts sessions for adults, using accessible art activities to promote connection, mindfulness, confidence and positive mental wellbeing.
Each workshop is thoughtfully adapted to the needs of participants, creating inclusive, engaging, and meaningful experiences that connect creativity, learning, nature and community.
Examples of workshops available…
Learning to imagine – imagining to learn
A range of vibrant creative arts, story and creative writing workshops. These cover a range of topics, they draw children into the world of the imagination- their own and each others’.
The importance of trees and the Environment
(Suitable for Reception to year 6)
A vibrant interactive workshop that promote an understanding of trees varieties and the vital role they play in ecosystems. The workshop encourages creativity, with hands on activities, it includes walks, identifying and finding out about trees, story, art, movement, creative writing, designing and making.
Making connections and feeling connected
(Suitable for Reception to year 6)
An interactive workshop that promotes an understanding of social and emotional connection. This interactive workshop begins with an engaging story that sets the stage for discussions, includes drama, creative writing, a collaborative performance, illustration and the creation of a pieces of 3D art forms.
Emotional wellbeing and emotional Literacy
(Suitable for Reception to Year 6)
An interactive workshop that develops and extends children’s understanding of their emotions and emotional wellbeing. The use of emotional literacy, illustration, and characterisation are interwoven into a day of storytelling, creative writing, illustrating and performance. The experience inspires children to be independent, make connections, use their imaginations, feel confident to develop their own ideas, make informed choices, share and present their work and preferences.
Workshops can be adapted to work alongside specific requirements and settings, a curriculum idea, or a particular story. They are inclusive of children of all ages and abilities, young people, students, adults and older people. Please contact me for more details and to discuss bespoke workshops and fees.