Creative Allyship

Creative Mentorship & Participatory Arts Support

Fee: £45 per hour (sessions are usually 2 hours)

DBS checked | Fully insured | Professional car insurance | Current care training certificates

Alongside my practice-based PhD research at Bath Spa University, where I explore participatory art and the poetics of neurodiversity, I offer one-to-one creative mentoring sessions for individuals experiencing what are often described as audio, mobility, cognitive, or communicative difficulties. I prefer to see these instead as eccentricities of perception and expression — distinctive ways of encountering and reshaping the world.

In these sessions, I hold a safe, adaptive space where we reimagine challenges through artful presence, multimodal literacy, and poetic expression. My approach draws on:

Contemporary fine art methods and theories: performance, relational aesthetics, conceptual art, and socially engaged practices, which allow each encounter to be experimental, collaborative, and open-ended.

Narrative therapy: reframing difficulties as stories or characters that can be explored and transformed.

Multimodal literacy: working across image, gesture, sound, and text to expand reading, expression, and meaning-making.

Neuro-linguistic strategies: using metaphor, rhythm, and symbolic language to deepen connection, particularly where conventional communication feels limited.

Neurodiversity studies: understanding cognitive and communicative difference as a form of creative capital rather than deficit.

Rather than aiming to “fix,” I explore with each client what their experiences may be saying, revealing, or critiquing about the world — and how they might be reimagined as strengths. Here, art is not an escape but a lens for experiencing everyday life differently.

Because every individual has unique interests and inclinations, no two sessions are alike. Creative encounters might emerge through working with objects, drawing, storytelling, book-making, sound, or performance — always guided by what feels natural and meaningful to the client. This promotes self-advocacy, creative agency, and new forms of confidence.

I treat silence, repetition, forgetting, or misalignment not as errors but as openings for poetic expression, expanded understanding, and shared humanity.

This service can be tailored to align with government-funded support such as PIP, where applicable.

My aim is to contribute to truly dissolve the concept of ‘otherness’ altogether and reclaim these experiences as expressions of being human. I don’t hold up a banner, I change meaning from the inside out.

Creative Direction for Family Carers

Creative Kinship for Elders

Poetics of Dyslexia

One-to-one sessions for people caring for a loved one

Reframing care challenges into creative connection and meaningful understanding.

This offering is for family members or informal carers who are supporting someone with a cognitive or communicative difficulty (e.g. dementia, autism, dyslexia). These sessions offer space to reflect, find new ways of engaging and ease stress around specific behaviours.

What if culturally misread behaviours were portals to expressions of a new social condition ?

Together, we use creative reframing to shift difficult or confusing moments into meaningful or even poetic exchanges—supporting new ways of relating that feel lighter, more connected, and less burdened by pressure or failure.

You are invited to bring your concerns, frustrations, or hopes—and we will work together to open up space for new insights, tools, or rituals that feel aligned with your values. These sessions are co-led and highly personalised, offering emotional support as well as creative strategies.

Fee: £45 per hour (sessions are usually 2 hours)

Each session is a gentle co-created encounter bespoke to you. ‘You do not have to have any experience as a creative. You do not need to feel you have to be able to draw or paint’.

I use arts-based approaches as a direct practical tool for addressing real-life symptoms and struggles that can be embedded in daily life, rather than a one hour art class using traditional methods to escape reality or learn a new skill.

These sessions are designed for older individuals—particularly those adjusting to retirement, bereavement, a recent diagnosis (such as dementia), or simply a sense of social disconnection—who still long for depth, humour, and meaningful connection.

Co-Led with me, alongside my practice-based PhD research at Bath Spa University exploring participatory art, neurodiversity, and the poetics of care.

We will work together to celebrate your everyday rituals as a source of creative richness and challenges the deficit narratives that often surround ageing and diagnosis.

Together we might

Pimp your zimmer and critique it. Create a personal book of Anthology of Treasures as a tool for remembering and connection to others or a family legacy. Reframe your routines or struggles into joyful enchanting rituals and positive acts. Design a creative project with a loved one. Do a photographic project. Or just spend gentle quality time together doing ‘art salons’ with your own chosen objects that are meaningful to you.

You are welcome just as you are: tender, tangled, talkative, quiet, glorious in your own way. These sessions are for raising the status of the day, for finding beauty in mundane and for discovering joy in the unexpected poetry of the everyday and your own surroundings.

Fee: £45 per hour (sessions are usually 2 hours)

I see dyslexia as a mechanism to critique societal conditioning to disrupt the automatic, to question linearity, to resist the standardised. For me, dyslexia unravels the constructed nature of ‘normal’ communication. It exposes the limits of language, and conformity. Where others see confusion, I see a lived rebellion against the mechanisation of thought.

In these one-to-one sessions: I frame it as an artistic and philosophical force. A poetic interruption that challenges how we measure intelligence, success, and coherence. A form of embodied critique that makes visible the absurdity of perfection and opens up new forms of meaning-making. Living well with dyslexia.

This is not a tutoring service.
 This is for anyone who is tired of feeling wrong, broken, or behind—and is ready to see dyslexia not as a deficit, but as a different kind of brilliance.
 Whether you’ve just received a diagnosis, or have lived for decades quietly compensating, these one-to-one sessions offer a safe, imaginative space to gently unpack internalised shame, reframe ‘mistakes’ as originality, and explore practical, playful ways to thrive in daily life.

Led by me—a dyslexic artist and PhD researcher at Bath Spa University exploring neurodiversity, care, and creativity—this service is built on lived experience and deep curiosity.

Together, we might: Reimagine your dyslexia charecteristics as creative acts. Develop your own dictionary of dyslexia. Laugh at the glorious illogic of language and turn overwhelm into opportunity. Explore how your dyslexic superpower can be used in your own artwork.

This is about finding ease, pride, and joy in your unique wiring.
 A place where word-blurts, time-bends, skipped steps and soulful tangents are not problems to fix, but part of your creative operating system.

Fee: £45 per hour (sessions are usually 1–2 hours, weekly or fortnightly)