My Art Therapy Explorations - Engaging with Materials

Earlier this year I recommenced my Masters in Therapeutic Arts with MIECAT.

I find the MIECAT process absolutely soul nourishing and it’s brought me incredible insight into my personal explorations, using a wide variety of artistic mediums as my guides.

This term I am leaning deeply into materials and processes for art-making. I’m challenging my position as an artist and pivoting into embodying the creative process, over working towards an end product. It’s felt wonderful, freeing and delightfully challenging.

Here are a few key artistic inquiry moments I’ve been exploring this term.

‘Self as Maker’ - Identifying my personal traits, cultural positioning, interests and values and how these inform my creative inquiry.

‘Impermanent Nature’ - Exploring art-making with natural materials and gravity, to challenge my natural artful eye for composition and 'artistic prettiness’

‘Nature, Fancy Materials + Found Objects ‘ - This expression come about during an online art jam with my fellow art therapy students.

‘Identifying my wellbeing tool kit’ - Exploring boundaries, chosen thoughts and qualities of wellbeing that are important to me right now, using drawing and watercolour.

‘An Accidentally Pleasing Composition’ - Exploring photography, close up view and new ways to focus. Witnessing how it feels to use a creative medium I don’t know much about.

‘Boundaries + Openness’ - An ongoing emerging form I have amended and changed weekly throughout my studies this term.

All these processes are embedding deeply into my being and influencing how I create and view myself as a maker. I’m excited to weave some of the creative processes into my wellbeing art sessions with people.

Visit my ‘Create with Me’ page to view classes and new private art sessions if you’d love to connect and learn with me.

With love,