As an artist’s mentor, creativity coach, and workshop leader, I work with individuals and small groups supporting people as they ‘come home’ to themselves, open their hearts, and surrender to a creative power that flows throughout and beyond the individual self.

My main aim is to help people know themselves more intimately, and accept themselves more kindly, so as to strengthen their relationship with their ‘creative self’ more securely.

Through a better relationship with ourselves we develop a core confidence and ease. This enables us to trust in the flow of life and let our creative expression be what it wants to be, rather than have it be limited by our fears, blocks and resistances.

The great Persian poet Rumi said:

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

All of my work (be it as artist, artists mentor or creativity coach) focuses on work around the softening of defences, the opening of the heart and living, loving, and creating more freely.

My 1-2-1 mentoring programs are held on-line or in person and are suitable for anyone wanting to live with more creativity at the centre of their life. My creativity workshops are delivered in person at my home in West Sussex, or a location of your choice by request, and at West Dean College of Arts and Conservation, Nr Chichester, West Sussex. (You can find details of my short courses at West Dean in the West Dean Short Course brochure under the section for ‘Creative and Professional Development’ )

I’ve worked in the arts and related industries since 1975, worked full time as a self employed artist since 1989, and been an artist’s mentor since 1996.

In my own art practice I explore relationships; the relationships we have with ourselves, with others and with all aspects of the world we are a part of.

It is my deepest desire is to connect deeply and to love well in all aspects of my life. I want to know our interconnectedness bring a sense of connection and communion into my art work.

I believe that intimacy comes out of a certain quality of presence with one’s ‘self’ and the ‘other’. For me, engaging intently with materials and techniques is one way of practicing a certain type of attention and focus which supports both mindful presence and energetic flow.

Over decades I’ve regularly changed genre, materials and techniques in order to become a beginner again. In being deskilled and not knowing what I am doing is humbling. Vulnerability helps me remember I’m powerless. In Psychosynthesis language, this invites me to surrender my self to Self.

Being open to something beyond myself and being in service from that place is essential for the development of my spiritual practice, my creative practice and my life. (Which are in fact all one and the same thing.)

In a physical sense I make marks, sculpt, make site specific earth work, create installations and soundscapes. I make artist’s moving image, video and live art performance. I put together poetry and mixed genre writing. I am driven by my greatest desire which is to express something around relationships, particularly something sacred around divine communion. This is the context for my personal explorations.

My work as mentor and coach, is born out of my love of seeing others open to themselves and flourish in their creativity. This work is informed by my personal experience of being full time artist since 1980’s and my resulting understanding around creative processes. I also draw on a number of trainings including CTI leadership, coaching, psychotherapy, Psychosynthesis applied to fine art practice, ordination training with Triratna Buddhism and Tantra.

I am fully aware that living the life of an artist isn’t necessarily an easy one. We can often struggle to find our way as we come up against internal and external blocks and resistances. We don’t always listen to our most authentic creative voice, let alone respond to it and let it be heard or seen by others. Even when we can hear it well enough we can choose to ignore it or ask it to ‘wait till later’! Pushing ourselves out of our comfort zone on our own can be difficult even when we can recognise our own blocks, which of course we often can’t even see. Having an understanding mentor by your side to challenge and encourage us can help us to take some vital steps towards creative liberation.

I’m passionate about supporting people in the process of learning to value their own unique creative self. I believe we all have a creative self and this is our unique and incredibly valuable inner resource.

Whether it’s simply a case of acknowledging what we have and taking time to create conditions to give this part of us space enough to emerge and grow, or whether we need to face the things we have put in our way, when we choose to invest fully in the relationship between ourselves and our creativity, we gain confidence, clarity, ease and a sense of health and fulfilment that is like no other.

Veronique’s lived experience as an artist combined with her knowledge of psycho-spiritual psychology and leadership support my work as coach, mentor and workshop leadeDespite the fact that we are always evolving, we often tend to want to pin ourselves down with definitions around who we are and where we are heading. We say we are ‘this’ and not ‘that’. We say we can do ‘this’ and we can’t do ‘that’. By holding on to these definitions, which of course are just stories around our own limiting beliefs, we end up building walls to defend ourselves against our own creative potential. Sometimes we can be as fearful of success as we are of failure so, either way, we try with all our determination to stay in a familiar safe zone. Of course ultimately there is no safe zone but we cling on to our concept of it any way, ….until one day we wake up, realise the illusion we’ve created for ourselves, and decide to take a ris