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53 Educators providing Art courses in Hastings delivered Online

Heart Healer

heart healer

5.0(6)

Hastings

I believe we hold more potential than we can possibly imagine. I also believe many of us have had experiences that have left us feeling the opposite. We can learn to cope by closing up parts of our hearts for protection, staying small or rigid and we can find ourselves living lives that don’t reflect our true, juicy brilliance. We have a choice, always, about how we respond to what we come up against in life. We may not be conscious of it, but once we are, boy does the game shift gears. I spent most of my life juggling far too many balls, burning the candle at both ends and was petrified of being still. I didn’t know who I was when I wasn’t doing something. This exhausting cycle sprung from a lack of self-love and self-trust, which was a result of childhood abuse I had blocked out. Feeling poor all the time, (no matter how much money was in my bank account), perpetually single and like I was missing out on everything, I was no longer actively suicidal but sitting on a foundation of anger and frustration. Several major traumas in my life had not been dealt with and I was on a lot of medication of Narcolepsy. I was holding it together, but I was far from happy or healthy. I won’t share all the details here but am happy to bring them up when I hold space if they are relevant; suffice to say some unbearable life circumstances lead me to explore the spiritual path, and I began to realise there was a lot more to being alive than I was currently experiencing. For a while I couldn’t see it, but I had started to turn my life around from it’s very depths. It hasn’t been easy, and it definitely hasn’t been boring. I have travelled across rainforests, mountains, warehouses and the cosmos to find answers, but I have generally found more questions. Learning to surrender to what is mystic and trust in my own foundation of courage, compassion and wisdom have been of immeasurable benefit. I’ve connected to an inner power that I was unaware I had, it has guided me to share the tools, lessons and magic I have collected since I first began to heal from the inside out.

Studio 11

studio 11

5.0(13)

Eastbourne

I am a practising and exhibiting textile artist who makes work focussing on memory, identity, loss and absence, using a variety of mixed media techniques alongside adapting traditional patchwork and embroidery processes for contemporary work. I have also been teaching textiles for many years, and enjoy developing the design aspect of projects with students, as well as teaching the more practical stitching and colouring skills. I have delivered City & Guilds to Diploma (the old Part 2) level in both Embroidery and Patchwork & Quilting. 2015 saw me complete my Masters with Distinction as well as having a gallery at Festival of Quilts. Then in 2016 I was part of the very successful unFOLD exhibition at the Knitting & Stitching Shows at Alexandra Palace and Harrogate International Centre. We repeated that experience with The Button Box exhibition at Festival of Quilts 2018. In 2019 I successfully entered work into the Vlieseline Fine Arts Textile Award at FOQ and then worked with unFOLD members to produce a group piece which was accepted into the Janome Fine Art Textiles Award in 2021. The Covid pandemic and lockdown saw me presenting one of the Community Stitch challenges for TextileArtist.org online, to 18,000 members of the community. This was a very exciting opportunity which coincided with the development of my new online courses. With a few external teaching commitments left for 2022, I have decided to concentrate on courses in Eastbourne for 2023 to enable me to get more stitching done. So if you want to work with me on one of my courses, you will need to book a Studio 11 course, or an online course.