This week I have completed the Introduction to Art in Health short course with Wrexham University. This course has helped me to step back into the role of a Creative Producer and to think critically about how I would design and deliver an art in health project within primary care. I am often questioning the difference between art in health and art therapy as at times it has felt that the boundaries can get a little blurred. This has helped me to establish my own approach to a

Over the last few weeks I have been reflecting on the ethics of what I'm doing as part of my research and development. I'm beginning to feel a little uneasy about foraging for natural materials, despite only ever collecting small handfuls of plant matter. I'm feeling grateful that I now have the allotment to grow my own plants for natural colour making, however it means that this process just got a whole lot slower. It's been important for me to go back to the beginning and r

This week I've been at Bloom Sheffield to take part in a natural dye workshop led by artist Charlie Hill. The workshop began with a walk in Cat Lane Wood to forage for hawthorn berries and oak galls. It was here that I got the chance to see a cherry gall for the first time! We learnt about winter tree identification and found lots of jelly ear fungi. The woods sit next to the Heeley & Meersbrook allotment site, home to two of Bloom Sheffield's allotment plots. Heeley & Meersb