Art journaling is a creative conversation with yourself.
I am a recovery artist who has used the power of art journaling to help me and others in recovery and healing.
I have always found it difficult to connect with my feelings and verbally express myself but when I found art journaling it was a huge relief to finally have a visual voice to help make sense of my own thoughts and feelings.
If you are looking for a wellbeing tool and holistic approach to looking after yourself art journaling is a brilliant tool available to anyone artist or not. I have been art journaling for over a decade and have found the process has been hugely beneficial tool helping emotional healing and building on self growth. Having an art journal is a safe place for thoughts and feelings a place to be authentic and honest with yourself.
We art journal to get out whats in our heads onto the page.
Arts in health care is evidence based to help individuals recover and connect visually and art journaling is a creative and mindful way to process, self discover and build your self esteem, a self care tool to make sense of the world and your thoughts and emotions.
This is a fabulous thing to do to clear away the humdrum,
thoughts and worries!
Rachel, Winchester
Workshops for adults and teens
I run a variety of Creative Well Being workshops and Retreats for adults and children to help combat stress, anxiety and have creative fun,
I have a creative background and mental health experience with Solent Mind and youth mental health first aider which has enabled me to create a fun, creative, visual approach offering a creative tool to help with anxiety, stress and general wellbeing.
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Mixed media is part of the fun!
We use mixed media, mindfulness and lots of creative fun techniques and prompts to self discover and shift ourselves to experience the outside world differently. Its about exploring, letting go of control and inhibitions and putting trust in yourself and the process.
My art journaling is about collecting ideas, half a century old pieces of paper, making collage work, exploring encaustic wax, wooden letter press, dripping colours in wax and spreading paints, not worrying about the final outcome and allowing the process to unveil the story.
After my art degree I worked as an illustrator and graphic designer in London. I love mixed media, print, and the immediacy of collage, stencilling and stamping, My work has been sold and shown through galleries and exhibitions in London and France.
I have a daily routine art journaling which involves working in up cycling old books using old bits of paper, magazine and using my visual diaries to emotionally and creatively connect with myself.
