Recent Projects
With prescription medications running amok in the US and beyond, people are increasingly looking to natural yet powerful scientifically backed therapies to ease their anguish.
Among all these, art therapy stands out, with its proven power to build connections, alleviate pain, and reduce the symptoms of anxiety and depression in adults and children.
Weaving is a powerful tool when it comes to tapping into the vital link between the hands, brain, and well-being. WEAVING AS ART THERAPY FOR BEGINNERS empowers you to discover and harness the benefits of using art as therapy through weaving. Available from elkatextiles.co.uk
Is life already mapped out in the lines on your palms or does the balance of health, wealth and love depend on physical and mental resiliance?
LIFELINES will take you from Mediterranean mountains, volcanoes, gorges and coastal trails where the soul soars and the heart races, through the humour and harangue of the doctor’s waiting room to the surgeon’s knife-edge – when the heartbeat stops.
Connecting with people and ancient places bearing the scars of trouble and turbulence, of loss and ruin, is it possible to find happiness amongst the trinkets of ordinary sentiment? Maybe it’s only when life is stripped bare that you truly understand what is most important.
In 2019, former Royal Marine Richard Kenworthy left his comfortable home on the River Exe in Devon for the wilderness of the River Yukon near the Arctic Circle to complete a solo paddle he started two years before. Follow Richard’s battles with the elements, the highs and lows of travelling alone, his encounters with creatures large and small – from black bears to swarms of flies – and learn why his greatest fear of all was…trees.
Written during the COVID 19 pandemic, this very personal tale explores Richard’s inspiration for life, his quest for adventure and the part that rivers have played and continue to play in people’s lives around the world.
An extraordinary, shocking and sometimes hilarious story of a woman’s walk with brokenness as she navigates her way through life, connecting haphazardly with a diverse range of young people – one minute at Buckingham Palace, the next with a nail gun held to her head.
A journey of strength and determination in wild and dangerous places, drawing on community and the wisdom of our ancesters, in search of hope despite the difficult seasons and cycles of life.
Beautiful, blunt and impactful, BROKEN BLOOMS will leave you contemplating the choices you make, the actions you take and the legacy they leave.
From the 17th to the 19th century, there was a lucrative trade between Topsham in Devon and sugar plantations in the Americas.
Key figures and families from the town derived wealth from this trade and some of those born abroad made Topsham their home when they retired.
TOPSHAM & SUGAR explores some of these connections and the enormous suffering that made plantation businesses possible.