Creativeflow Arts (now Orenda Centre for Arts & Healing)
Founder, Teacher and Therapist – Intuitive Art, Meditation Classes and Holistic Therapies (2018-2024)
Creativeflow Arts & Inner Light Healing Studio provides a safe and positive space for exploration, free expression, and healing. Classes and sessions are designed to help people to connect with their creativity and explore the beauty and gifts of the creative process. Art, meditation, and energy therapies are powerful tools for healing and transformation that bring our full awareness into the present moment and can expand and deepen our experience of life.
Past and present collaborations include The Planetary Healing Centre, Santosa Wellness Centre, the Reiki school Healing Hands, Invisible Caims, Real Talk, Edinburgh Palette, Sunshine Yoga, The Hand Made Factory and much more. Further information about the project is available on https://www.creativeflowart.com/ https://www.innerlighthealingstudio.com/
The Alma Project
Community Artist & Project Worker – Art & Wellbeing Activities (2015-2023)
The Alma Project is a mental health art charity based in Edinburgh. The project aims to improve the mental health and well-being of the community through the use of the arts as a therapeutic tool. Activities include experimental and traditional art techniques such as painting, drawing, clay modeling, printing, bookbinding, and puppet making. More information are available at https://thealmaproject.wordpress.com/
Social Art Edinburgh (2016-2019) The project has now been incorporated in Creativeflow Arts
Founder & Teacher – Social art events for adults
Social Art Edinburgh offered creative opportunities for the community and aimed to make art more accessible. These events often took place in unusual locations, like cafes, festivals, and galleries. Through the years, the project changed and transformed, and it is now part of Creativeflow Arts.
Fairy Tales & Seasons (2018)
Lead Artist & Teacher – Art & craft activities for children (2017-2022)
Girotondo Children’s Club, is a community group based in Edinburgh.
This collaboration includes a one-year programme called Fairy Tales & Seasons. This project aimed to explore Italian and Scottish traditions through the arts. A group of bilingual children (4-12 years old) had the chance to discover and explore Italian and Scottish stories, poems, and songs connected to the four seasons. They learned about their Italian heritage and related their experiences with Scottish traditions. They reflected on how different cultures can enrich each other and enliven the existing traditions.
The project was funded by The Heritage Lottery Funding. A final event and exhibition took place at the Scottish Storytelling Centre.
Artist in Residence at Abbeyhill Primary School (2016)
Co-Lead Artist
Creative workshops developed for the artists in residence programme at Abbeyhill Primary School. The workshops aimed to highlight the importance of art for wellbeing and community.
The children had the opportunity to explore the connection between colours and feelings, and to express their emotions through art. They had the chance to explore their creativity, and to interact with each other, by creating a series of big paintings all together. Additionally, they have been encouraged to create their own “special place” in the community and build little houses with willow and cardboard.
Curated by Iliyana Netkova, the project was also in partnership with The Alma Project and Awards for All Scotland. The final work, Willow Village, was showcased during the Colony of Artists Festival 2016.
Art for changes 