19/04/2026
Five years ago, the world was just stepping out of silence.
Not the peaceful kind… the heavy kind. The kind that came from months of isolation, of being tucked away in our own little bubbles, trying to make sense of a world that had shifted overnight.
Somewhere in that stillness, an idea landed.
A quiet but persistent knowing: we needed to come back to ourselves… and to each other.
A small group of Black Women stepped into Queen's Wood. Walking through the trees, looking for a space that could hold something bigger than all of us. That’s where the first Wild At Art Day Retreat for Black women was born.
Nothing fancy. Just a small gathering.
Creativity, conversation, fresh air… and that deep exhale you don’t even realise you’ve been holding. And it was powerful.
Because the pandemic didn’t just slow the world down, it exposed how far we’d drifted. From rest. From nature. From ourselves.
Nature kept going. Thriving, even.
Meanwhile, we were being reminded (whether we liked it or not) that it’s actually okay to slow all the way down… Because life doesn’t stop when we do.
Of course… staying small was never really the plan 😅
The next time? A whole weekend.
Eco-pods. Heated floors. Proper home-cooked meals. Clean indoor bathrooms (because let’s be real… we love nature, but we love comfort too 👀😏).
More women. More connection. More moments that felt like this is what we’ve been needing.
And now… here we are again.
Another retreat. End of May.
Not because it’s easy.... It definitely hasn’t been. Holding something like this, mostly on your own, will stretch you in ways you don’t talk about enough.
But the need doesn’t go anywhere.... If anything… it’s louder now.
And theres something about creating space for Black women to rest, to create, to reconnect, in a world that constantly asks us to do the opposite, that will always be worth it.
