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David Mclagan is an artist, art therapist, author and lecturer. He pioneered an Art and Psychotherapy MA at the Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield, and has taught trainee art therapists for many years. He has published numerous articles on Outsider Art, art therapy and imaginal psychology, as well as writing several artists’ catalogues. His books include ‘Creation Myths’ and Psychological Aesthetics.‘
Marian Liebmann has worked in art therapy with offenders, with women’s groups and community groups, and currently at the InnerCity Mental Health service in Bristol. She teaches and lectures on art therapy at several universities in the UK and Ireland. She also works on mediation and conflict resolution, and has run Art & Conflict workshops in many countries. She has written eight books, including Art Therapy for Groups (second edition February 2004) and Arts Approaches to Conflict.
Penelope Hall works for Cornwall Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and is involved with Child and Family work at SureStart. She is a State Registered Art Therapist and is British Association of Art Therapists approved for private practice and as a supervisor. Her private practice is based in mid Cornwall where she also offers supervision. She is co-ordinator for the Art Therapy Foundation course in Truro and is actively involved with the Champernowne Trust. She will be restarting her Painting workshops and training for community arts practitioners from 2005.
Diana Collins was born on an island off the Pacific coast of Canada. She moved to the UK to train as a Theatre Designer in the 1980‘s. She completed her degree in Art & Social Context at Dartington and subsequently taught theoretical and practical arts based subjects including Visual Performance and Cultural Theory .Since qualifying as an an Art Therapist in 2000 she has continued to teach dissertation and research writing skills.at Dartington and also works in Child & Adolescent Mental Health services in Plymouth and for Sure Start with mothers suffering from post natal depression. She is a member of Dartington Printmakers as a printmaker and book artist. Diana loves drawing and sea kayaking..
Richard Skinner is a self-employed poet, performer, therapist/counsellor and workshop leader. He has published seven books, most recently, ‘Invocations’. He gives regular readings of his work, appearing at the Exeter Festival for the past 15 years. A former member of Cambridge University ‘Footlights’, he also writes and performs sketch-based comedy, and has appeared on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with both his comedy and poetry.
As a psychotherapist Richard worked for several years in family therapy clinics after training as a social worker. He was a Tutor and Course Director for the Certificate in Counselling courses run by Exeter University. He runs a small private practice andregularly contributes to the work of a charity which supports people in ministry who are experiencing stress or personal crisis. For them he offers sessions of short-term, focussed counselling, and runs workshops on ‘Fun With Words’ – creative writing with a therapeutic edge.
Richard has run workshops and courses on family therapy, personal construct psychology, listening skills, journalling, approaches to prayer, and creative writing.
Anne Marie Blake is a qualified Art and family Therapist, with 17 years experience of working with children, young people and families. Currently employed by Somerset NHS Partnership in the child, adolescent and family therapy team working with 5 to 17 year olds, both individually, and with their families or carers.
Anne Marie is currently completing her MSc at Bristol University, researching the role of systemic thinking and psychoanalysis in reflecting team practice. She is a visiting lecturer on the Postgraduate Art Therapy Training in Ireland. The image is one of her etchings.
Carole Pembrooke
Helen Tynan
Vanessa Newcombe lives and works in Exeter as a Jungian psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice. She runs an ongoing study group on Jungian ideas, along with occasional workshops on Jungian psychology. Her background was in politics, but her interest in Jungian psychology developed early on, and led to study at the Jung Institute in Zurich. She has worked with clients in private practice for over twenty years, and worked part-time at the University of Exeter Counselling Service for eight years. Her experience of life has been eclectic, and included five years working as a thatcher…..
Barrie Damarell
Barrie has twenty years experience of working with people with learning difficulties who experience periods of troubled wellbeing. He is particularly interested in how, the people with whom he works, conceptualise, interpret, and attribute meaning to art making and, thereafter, the consequences for art psychotherapy practice.
He is a fanatic ‘Gunners’ fan, a sculptor, visiting tutor and examiner for Goldsmiths College, part-time research student and, between these periods, the Head of Arts Therapies for the Plymouth Learning Difficulties Partnership.
Stephen Pettet Smith
Is the manager of Exeter Health Care Arts. This was established in 1991 as the arts project for the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Trust. The organisation's work has three main strands:
* Exhibition of artists' work in public and clinical areas of hospitals.
* Environmental schemes in public and clinical areas, both inside and out.
* Live art events for the public at large and within the wards of hospitals.
Robert Wynne has been the Co-ordinator of Magic Carpet for the last five years and has overseen a large growth in services. Magic Carpet works in the local community with people who are disabled or disadvantaged, for people with learning disabilities, mental health problems and those with severe and profound disabilities. They run a variety of creative sessions in community locations in Exeter and East Devon. They encourage participation in the community; have exhibitions and performances of the work of their participants and support development through attending other courses and colleges. Rob has a degree in Fine Art from Cheltenham and a Certificate in Managing Voluntary Organisations from the Open University. He was a painter before parenthood and DIY took its toll and intends to practice as an artist in the future.
Robin Tipple
After 7 years in the RAF Robin decided to become an artist. He spent 6 years at art school, Norwich School of Art and Reading University, then he began searching for studio space and working in London. He eventually found himself on a mural projectin Bethnal Green Hospital and this lead to him learning about Art Therapy. After training at Goldsmiths College he began work in the NHS with adults who have learning disabilities and mental health problems. He has also worked with children who have experienced abuse and is currently working in a paediatric disability setting as well as teaching on the Art Psychotherapy course at Goldsmiths. His early explorations in art therapy were focussed on developing psychotherapeutic approaches to work with the learning disabled, exploring the application of Kleinian and object relations theories to art therapy. More recently he has tried to understand art therapy in a broader, more social and cultural context, in particular researching the discourses used in art therapy to relate the art work to the client.
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