Artlift Course Dates
If you are a doctor or health professional, or if you want to refer yourself, please use the forms below:
Health Professionals in Gloucestershire
Flourish for those living with and beyond cancer:
Create Well to support mental health:
Health Professionals in Wiltshire
Creative by Nature to support mental health:
Individuals in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire: self-referral
To ensure full access at this difficult time of COVID, individuals facing mental health and long term health challenges can now apply for arts on prescription direct. If you would like to apply for a free course, please visit our courses page.
March 2021
Create Well – Inspired By Nature
Visual Art / Lino Printing for Mental Health support - Take those potato prints from school one step further. Rediscover the textures, patterns, shapes, and colours of natural objects around you, both indoors or outdoors. Get creative with your environment; learn about mark-making and etching; draw from nature (plants, trees, food, or anything in the home and/or garden); and try your hand at simple relief printmaking. Ten weeks to play with printmaking techniques.
Find out more »Create Well – The Seasons- Visual Writing
Visual Writing - Working from images sent by the artist or just simply observing and listening to your environment, you will be guided with exercises, games and working examples to respond to what’s around you. There’s no need to finish your work – just go with the flow and enjoy the creative process for ten weeks. Please note times are flexible as this course is a remote email/telephone course for those that struggle with online access.
Find out more »Flourish for adults in Gloucestershire living with & moving on from cancer
Need a lift after lockdown? Free online art sessions to help you move on from cancer with trained, experienced artist, Susie Walker. Explore making, drawing & painting. For adults living with or beyond cancer & registered with a doctor in Glos.
Find out more »Create Well – Inside Out Photography
Photography - Get out your camera or mobile phone and take a fresh look at the world around you. This is a real chance to develop your observational skills and explore the things that interest you, both inside and outside.
Find out more »Sketch ‘n Rhyme with Your Next Move
Fun, no-pressure online course with friendly Hip Hop artists JPDL and SLAZ. No experience needed, just a desire to express yourself. Bring your own thoughts and Hip Hop lyrics to life through graffiti art. A chance for anyone over 18 to build confidence and skills with an immersive introduction to Hip Hop.
Find out more »Create Well – Woven Stories
Creative Writing & Visual Art for Mental Health support - Ten weeks of pure inspiration. Find joy in the everyday and learn how to create art in words, objects and images on this ten-week course. Starting with the theme ‘a lovely place to be’, you will weave through a range of activities, including collages, poems, text, line drawings, 2D storyboards, and ‘magic boxes.’
Find out more »Living Well – Chronic Pain course – Woven Stories
Artlift course for adults (18+) living with chronic pain. Referral required from your healthcare professional, no previous arts experienced required. Creative Writing & Visual Art - Ten weeks of pure inspiration. Find joy in the everyday and learn how to create art in words, objects and images on this ten-week course. Starting with the theme ‘a lovely place to be’, you will weave through a range of activities, including collages, poems, text, line drawings, 2D storyboards, and ‘magic boxes.’
Find out more »Create Well – From Object to Art
Visual Art / Sculpture for Mental Health support - Turn a piece of toast into a work of art. Transform everyday items into permanent or transient artwork on this ten-week course.
Find out more »April 2021
Creative by Nature in Wiltshire – Mornings
Focus on some new creative activities in a safe, welcoming and non-judgemental environment. Feel free to choose your own form of expression, including painting, drawing and writing. No experience or talent in art necessary.
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