Art Club Devon

18/06/2026

Thankful Thursday (a gratitude list):

1. Fresh air 🌬️
2. Melted cheese 🧀
3. Tidy studio 🧹
4. Being early ⏰
5. Comfy 🧦

16/06/2026

14/06/2026

What is the bare minimum you need for art journaling?

22/05/2026

1. An favourite Art Journal page from years ago 💕
2. Art Journaling this week 📖
3. A book that has probably already changed my life, and I only bought it yesterday
4. Cosmic Sludge, a piece I submitted to the Art Exhibition that is on currently at , curated by
4. A collage draft when I was playing around with the Cosmic Sludge idea
5. A fabulous birthday present for a therapist! 🎁

This week was one of those weeks that reminded me that any semblance of control we may feel over our lives is an illusion!
Cosmic Sludge is a phrase that came to me when I was coming to terms with my own Matresence several years ago. It described my feeling of being a dissolving, reanimating, magical mess in a cocoon, preparing to emerge as something entirely new.
The irony of it is, when I wrote the piece description for the exhibition recently, I wrote about that stage in the past tense. But this week has reminded me that the evolution of growth and change as a m/other is never-ending. Or maybe all of life is transition, dissolving and reforming, over and over?

Anyway, it’s been a bu**er of a week and I am, as ever, so grateful to art, to journaling, for helping me process and feel and let things go!

19/05/2026

It’s my birthday today! Honestly it’s been a bloody disastrous few days and sadly I’ve had to cancel every single plan I’d made and am celebrating it alone with a sickly kid 😅 (although made to feel very seen, supported and loved by friends and family from afar). I am definitely sharing this for sympathy!!! 🎻

BUT after a very sad and stressful yesterday, today I have accepted my fate and we are hunkered down, cosy and with all necessary provisions and my little one already seems to be on the mend ❤️‍🩹🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

I’m here to share because I have been taking a look back at the last year and I feel very proud of who I’ve been and how I’ve connected to life in the last 365 days. I love Art Club Devon, I love finding community through art, I love sharing the myriad benefits of creativity, and I love my life and I am very grateful to anyone here for being part of Art Club. Thank you for making the first year of my forties a gorgeous one 🥰

15/05/2026

That’s what Katy, one of our lovely class participants, said this week 🥰✨

How nice is it to just be shown different ways to make art, be led by new ideas, and have a play?

14/05/2026

Do you need to know what you’re making, when you’re making?

13/05/2026

Its only Wednesday 🤯

08/05/2026

Our last Art Club class of the season is on next Tuesday evening at The Good Space, Dawlish.

If you ever wanted to try Art Journaling, or learn new ways of collaging, now’s your chance ✂️ 🎨

06/05/2026

🌞 Signs from the sun everywhere at our Watercolour Wellbeing evening art class in Teignmouth 🌞