Joanna works with ceramics and drawing.  She values how making things and using her hands can support her own wellbeing.  She enjoys sharing her skills to help others find their creative paths. She loves exploring what can be created using different processes and in her spare time you will often find her experimenting with chocolate.

Susie has been involved in Community Arts and Arts and Health work both online and face to face for over 30 years around Gloucestershire and Bath. She is inspired by the way that coming together and being creative can bring such joy and change people’s lives in such a positive way. Susie is a multidisciplinary artist, currently focusing on drawing and printmaking in her own practice. She loves being out in nature, reading and spending time with family and friends.

Jess is an artist, art psychotherapist, potter, and curator.  She is an advisor to the International Journal of Art Therapy, having an interest in research and the convergence of the arts and health.  She works with both young people and adults, and enjoys supporting people to explore their creative powers! 

Nick likes finding ways to be creative using simple materials and working with what we have got, the shared experiences and learning and support we get from working together. He enjoys using easy art making methods to explore ways into subjects that can be challenging. Nick offers opportunities in art to create and develop closer, healthier relationships with nature, refreshing and reconsidering the ways we interact with and how we relate to it.

Esme is an artist, facilitator, and trainee art psychotherapist. Her work engages with

connection and relationships: to nature, community, and self, in ways that aim to question, develop empathy, and foster a sense of belonging. She enjoys working with children, young people, and adults in a variety of settings. These include community arts engagement, nature-based learning and health and social care. She is interested in cross-disciplinary projects that weave arts and storytelling into our everyday lives.

Joe is a freelance creative smushing together musical ways of working with visual art. He joined the creativeShift team through the Emerge training programme for young artists and has been thrilled to grow his skills at facilitating low-risk and creative spaces for people to come together in. He feels that his special skill is helping people to do more childish things, and use art as a form of play.

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​​Amy Lloyd-Jones is a multidisciplinary artist, performer and storyteller. For over 20 years Amy has delighted in creating playful and immersive theatrical experiences/ workshops, often incorporating puppetry, through her company, Tallulah Swirls. She especially enjoys connecting with children, young people and adults in community settings and has joined as part of the brilliant RIRO team, supporting wellbeing through creativity and co-production.

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