This week I took a trip to Wrexham to visit Social Prescribing projects that had a focus on art and horticulture. The trip was funded by the Wales Arts, Health & Wellbeing Network as part of their ‘Go and See Micro Grants’. My first stop was the Wrexham Miners Project where I learnt about the Gresford Colliery Explosion in 1934. I attended the Art4All inclusive art group for adults with disabilities and met with Peter, a student on the MA Arts in Health programme at Wrexham U

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