Creativity & Wellbeing Sessions

Discovering your Inner Artist

With Naomi Woddis

Naomi Woddis is a writer, photographic artist and poet with lived experience of mental health and chronic illness. Engaging in the creative process has been an essential part of her well-being. She has taught many creative workshops in the community around writing, art and photography.

You don't need any previous experience to take part in Discovering your Inner Artist, just enthusiasm and curiosity. In this workshop Naomi will be giving you some tools to have a creative adventure — to have fun, explore and to celebrate the artist in all of us.

Materials needed:

You don't have to have everything on the list but please bring paper to draw/paint/scribble and something you can make marks with (eg.pens, pencils, paint, ink or crayons). The emphasis is on play and being able to create something with what we have to hand.

Entirely optional items you can bring (only if you have them!):

• Mobile phone camera

• Modelling clay/plasticine/Blu-tak

• Felt tip pens

• Coloured pens

• Coloured pencils

• Coloured paper

• Crayons

• Stickers

• Biros

• Inks/paint if you have them but not essential

• Glue sticks or glue

• Old magazines or newspapers

• Sponges/rags

• Scissors

• PVA glue

• Old make up

• Post-it notes