One-to-One Mentoring

Struggling with where you’re going? Unsure what you’re ‘saying’ with your work? Feeling uncertain about your practice? My one-to-one mentoring sessions help you unlock what you’re trying to communicate. Implementing writing exercises, practical workshops and a series of informal interviews, I help you reconnect with your practice, write your statement and understand how to go forward.

The three tenants of your practice are interior inspiration, exterior inspiration, and methods & materials. My tailored mentoring sessions lead you through these three themes, leaving you with a clear knowledge of both why and how you create.

The Studio.

Visiting your studio helps me get under your artistic skin, to understand how you create. In the studio we will undergo a series of exercises, both written and practical, to unlock what you are trying to communicate. This is sometimes through working alongside you, so I can see your process and thought patterns in action. Other times this is through considering your work through a written lens, by undertaking poetic exercises or ‘reviewing’ a specific painting.

Out There.

I’m interested in understanding your exterior inspiration and experiencing it with you. If this is the landscape, we will take some time exploring places that influence you. If it’s still life, then we’ll investigate the objects which interest you. If it’s the materiality of paint, we’ll spend time exploring pigments.

Whatever we do, wherever we go, I will always be asking the question ‘why?’

Each mentoring session is tailored entirely to you. My main aim is for us to discover, together, how and why you create.

To get an idea of how I work with artists, a recording of part of a mentoring session with artist Natalie Day can be found here.

More information.

My day rate for in person sessions is £200.

For dates and travel radius, please email me.

I also lead remote mentoring sessions, offered via zoom. These one-to-one sessions are similarly tailored to your needs, focusing on writing exercises and artist statement workshops. My hourly rate for remote mentoring is £25. Email me to find out more.

If you’re looking for a longer-term mentoring course which covers all elements of your art practice, I highly recommend The Newlyn School of Art. I currently guest mentor on the Mentoring and Professional Landscape courses.