Everyone is creative!

Creativity is condition of being human. We are all born creative, and we can all learn how to encourage and grow our creative capacity.

Through learning and practising 'right-brained' activities like drawing, people connect with their natural creativity and can transfer what they've learned to other areas of their lives.


Everyone can draw!

Drawing is a wonderful tool for thinking and communicating, and anyone who can hold a pencil can do it.

What holds most people back is a strongly held belief that they can't draw. Somewhere along the line they've decided – or been told – that they haven't got the 'talent' for it. But why should an ability to draw depend on talent? We don't say we can't write just because we can't write like Shakespeare, yet when it comes to drawing most people immediately compare themselves to Picasso and declare that they 'can't draw'.

Drawing, like language, is an in-born capacity which needs nurturing and development in order to flourish. Our education system has long recognised the need for reading and writing to be taught and developed, but it has ignored drawing and visual thinking, so that only those few who happen upon it by chance ever get to experience its enormous benefits.


The best conditions for learning and creativity...

People learn best when they are enjoying themselves and are fully engaged in what they're doing. That's why we take care to ensure that people feel motivated and challenged in our workshops, but also comfortable and safe to experiment, explore and play – these are the conditions in which creativity thrives. Given the right conditions, even people who don't consider themselves to be creative at all can learn to overcome this self-limiting belief in a very short time.

To be creative, people need to be able to play, take risks, make mistakes and discoveries without fear of criticism or ridicule. For people who haven't done much, or any, drawing since childhood, drawing can be an emotional as well as a technical challenge. Our workshops are designed to take account of this, so we always start from where people are and take them forward from there. Many of our clients have commented that sharing this experience as part of a group or team workshop is a powerful and enriching experience, both for the individual and for the group.