Save the date & join us for our April online artist peer group.
Established in 2015 our artist peer groups are an opportunity for artists exploring health and wellbeing in their practice to gain feedback and support on their projects, ideas or challenges that they are facing. The space is for active feedback, meaning that artists aren’t sharing finished works, but asking for specific support from others attending the session. Together we pool resources and provide feedback in a supportive environment.
Our first presenting artist is Amy Shiner. Our second artist is still to be confirmed. Read on for more information.
Want to share your work at a future group? Fill out our application form.
Cost.
Free / Pay What You Can (suggested £5)
Images: Amy Shiner
About Amy Shiner.
Amy Shiner is an artist and creative facilitator based in Bristol. Her travels have deeply influenced her artistic style, drawing inspiration from the textures, patterns, and symbols of Mexican, Indian, and Moroccan cultures but after the loss of her father, Amy hit a creative block and turned to Creative Journaling as a way to heal and process her grief. This practice helped her rediscover her creativity in a therapeutic and meaningful way, leading her to study Creative Arts Therapies and run her own Creative Journaling workshops and arts in health projects. Using her trade-mark technique and her journal entries, Amy has created a collection of paintings from a distinct and exciting perspective exploring the connection between inner reflection and outward expression. From raw, handwritten entries to vibrant paintings, showing how journaling nurtures both the mind and the creative spirit.
“My latest project, The Eternal Journal, is a visual arts and well-being project, a collaborative journal that continues to grow and welcomes anyone and everyone to take part. My vision is to expand this project across physical, virtual, and geographic boundaries, creating a shared thread that connects us all through creativity. The project aims to raise awareness for arts and health charities and to highlight the transformative power of Creative Journaling. I am looking for advice from the creative community about how best to reach organisations and charities and how to manage rejection when not hearing back from them. Being a creative person I love running the workshops and connecting with people but having dyslexia I find the administrative side of things challenging. Running the project alone means wearing many hats—facilitator, administrator, treasurer, marketer, and even my own cheerleader—which can be overwhelming and lonely at times. I have big exciting ideas for the project and my art but I feel these challenges knock my confidence and hold me back”.
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