ABOUT
Hello!
I'm Jess, a Multidisciplinary Artist, Facilitator and Ecotherapist living in the Black Mountains, Wales.
My work grows out of a deep curiosity for how we relate to ourselves, each other, and the wider living world. With over fifteen years’ experience across creative, therapeutic, and nature-based practices, I bring together ecosomatic movement, visual arts, and participatory experiences that centre ecological awareness, wellbeing and collective care. My work is shaped by the field of ecology, the Japanese avant-garde dance form Butoh, and an ongoing inquiry into more relational ways of being with the body and land, honouring the diversity of our connections with place and more-than-human worlds.
As a facilitator and project designer, my approach is rooted in emergence, a listening to what is present and a welcoming of the shared possibility for something new to arise. Through a participatory arts approach, I invite spaces that explore different ways of being, making, and coexisting together. Working in collaboration, we move and respond together, follow our curiosity for the unfolding of creative process, and nurture tenderness within times of uncertainty.
BACKGROUND & TRAINING
My training includes studies in Ecospychology & Nature based practice (Natural Academy) Arts Therapies (British Association of Arts Therapists), Environmental Education (Schumacher College), Permaculture, and group work facilitation (The Work that Reconnects & London Gestalt Centre).
I am currently a student on the MA Arts Practice (Arts, Health & Wellbeing) at the University of South Wales undertaking a site-sensitive movement based practice as research in the Black Mountains, Wales.
You can find out more about my experience in bringing these threads of practice together here. If you would like to explore the possibility of working together, either individually or as a group, I'd love to hear from you. Please get in touch here.
Thanks for coming by!
