Expressive Art NZ

Expressive Art NZ Expressive Art NZ - Art Workshops - Well-Being Creatives in Schools- Auckland, NZ Offers Group Art Workshops and One to One Sessions

I’m ready 🌞
07/08/2025

I’m ready 🌞

Nobody can take your   away
27/06/2025

Nobody can take your away

Happy Year of the Snake!   I this cute design
31/01/2025

Happy Year of the Snake! I this cute design

My next Chapter.. is Peace ☮️ with my two little girls.Go on Adventures together. 🏕️
20/07/2024

My next Chapter.. is Peace ☮️ with my two little girls.
Go on Adventures together. 🏕️

A beautiful, creative short story
05/04/2024

A beautiful, creative short story

“Happier Alone” is a new short stop motion animation film from Lili Giacobino. It portrays the preferred lifestyle of an introverted man who has completely a...

Healing Collage ✂️ I made this back in Nov 23, not intending to make it about ‘Healing’ but it just came through natural...
21/03/2024

Healing Collage ✂️ I made this back in Nov 23, not intending to make it about ‘Healing’ but it just came through naturally.
Especially water.. 🌊 a strong message about cleansing and releasing my emotions.
I really love this and shows how far I’ve come, using my subconscious to create is very powerful. The inner ‘Truth’ is always unfolding.

Me and my daughter Loretta (6yrs old), made bracelets today. She got as a birthday present a few months ago. Now I’m hoo...
05/03/2024

Me and my daughter Loretta (6yrs old), made bracelets today. She got as a birthday present a few months ago. Now I’m hooked..

Free Art Classes, at New Lynn Community Centre.Link below.. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/YG3cUhnN739QFHRT/?mibextid=...
29/02/2024

Free Art Classes, at New Lynn Community Centre.
Link below..

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/YG3cUhnN739QFHRT/?mibextid=WC7FNe

Discover the joy of art with our beginner's workshop!

Over four Saturdays, you'll dive into the basics of art, explore creative techniques, and develop your skills from scratch. With materials provided and limited spots available, join us to ignite your imagination and connect with fellow art lovers.
Don't miss out on this opportunity to start your artistic journey as only limited spots available. Please register through the link in below:
https://events.humanitix.com/art-classes-for-beginners

The classes are all free and the materials will be provided. suitable for ages 18 and up.

Barbie’s first Mental Health Career, as an Art Therapist. Go Barbie.. 🎨 ✍️ (So far, I can only see it’s sold in the US)T...
28/02/2024

Barbie’s first Mental Health Career, as an Art Therapist. Go Barbie.. 🎨 ✍️

(So far, I can only see it’s sold in the US)

This is very cool, love that it comes with different emotion stickers too.

Mattel’s Barbie brand just launched its first mental health career—and they chose to show Barbie as an art therapist! AATA hopes Art Therapy Barbie will give parents and caregivers an opportunity to talk about mental health with kids and explore the power of art-making in wellness.

My next Collage.. still quite dark but brighter colours coming through.
26/02/2024

My next Collage.. still quite dark but brighter colours coming through.

Almost a year since I made this very dark collage, after going through the hardest time of my life. Postnatal Depression...
20/02/2024

Almost a year since I made this very dark collage, after going through the hardest time of my life. Postnatal Depression, which began during my 2nd pregnancy.
I fought all the way to survive, intrusive thoughts and hopelessness. But I began to heal by making Art again.
Never give up.. a month after making this collage. I returned to myself and had a healing turn around.
I will share my other personal collages, to show my healing journey so far and hope it helps others.

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Hi I'm Bernadette and I'm running a workshop called ‘Expressive Art - To Heal Grief and Loss’ based in Auckland, New Zealand. I noticed the lack of support in the community for those people wanting to connect and heal with other people after a loss. I am also going through the stages of grief after losing my Mother to Cancer in Dec 2017, I found that it was hard to reach out to people or find people to open up to about my grief.

I’m originally from London, UK and didn’t have any family around when I went through my loss, it became quite isolating and therefore wanted to create a space for people who are also going through the challenges that loss entails. I trained in Art & Design and I have a BA (Hons) in Textile Design, this is not Art Therapy but I use Expressive Art to help assist healing. I believe creativity can be used to express deep and painful emotions.

I’ve started to use Art as a way to express my grief and sorrow and thought that others would benefit too, as a way to heal after a major loss in their life. There isn’t many Grief support groups in Auckland and wanted to bring a group of people together to use creative methods and spontaneously create images/artwork using art mix media such as collage, paints and pencils.

I hope to share my journey through Art as I open up using creativity as a way to heal. Please see my page for workshops.