Creative Clinic: Online Draw to Unwind
Draw to Unwind
The first in a series of new mindful drawing workshops for Creative Clinic with artist Liz Atkin who will guide you through calming approaches to drawing, inspired by the work of well-known artists, and giving the freedom to experiment and have fun. Make space to refocus, relax and recharge with drawing activities that support mental wellbeing using accessible art materials that can be adapted with whatever you have at home. No previous drawing experience is necessary.
Join our first session on
23 Sept 7:30-8:30pm
Theme: Texture drawings
Once you have booked, an email with Zoom login details will be sent to you for the session.
Art materials to have ready at home: Bring a graphite pencil, a selection of different colour biros or fine liners and plain white paper.
About Liz
Liz Atkin is an artist and educator. She reimagines her Compulsive Skin Picking and anxiety into drawings, photographs and performances. Liz is a mental health advocate and raises awareness for the disorder around the world. She has exhibited and taught in the UK, Europe, Australia, USA, Singapore and Japan. Her work is permanently held in the Wellcome Collection, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, Derby Museum, and Bethlem Gallery Collection supported by the Peter Sowerby Foundation and National Lottery Heritage Fund. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, she gave away more than 18,000 free #CompulsiveCharcoal newspaper drawings to commuters on public transport in London, New York, San Francisco, Singapore, Cologne and more. Liz teaches art in schools, hospitals, hospices, prisons, arts venues and universities. She is an ambassador for The Big Draw, the world’s largest drawing festival, focusing on the role of creativity for health and wellbeing. Liz received the Unstoppable Spirit Award forOutspoken Advocacy at the TLC Global Conference for Skin Picking and Hair Pulling Disorders in San Francisco in 2018, and was a finalist in the Janey Antoniou Award with Rethink Mental Illness in 2018. Her work has featured on TEDx, BBC News, Woman’s Hour, Vice, Women’s Health USA, Huffington Post, Channel News Asia, Metro, AlJazeera and more.
