different, bold, mindful & beautiful art events
for all creatures great and small!
Hello and welcome to the world that is
Don't Burst My Bubble Ltd
A world that encourages individuals and communities to follow their heART
A world that allows each of us to nurture a happy and balanced mindset
A world where art is used as an outlet to ;
- Connect to our fears
- Process our thoughts
- Understand our feelings and
- 'Take away' the daily challenges of life
Through a personal and tailored approach (that's backed up from research and scientific evidence)
Don't Burst My Bubble Ltd will show you
HOW to ...
- implement art into your daily routine ...
- enable you and your community to ...
- unlock your curiosity and...
- be different, bold, mindful and beautiful
- learning the art of creating YOU!
Over 24 years of teaching experience in both the primary and secondary education sector
Loving my career and teaching young people how to open their minds and .....
let curiosity in and fear out
Creating art to escape, learn and thrive in life
The world is our oyster - let's discover our pearls together
(Don't Burst My Bubble Ltd)
My Career and Qualifications
Art Degree - Art Teacher - Assistant Headteacher - Mother
I studied Illustration and Animation at Manchester Metropolitan University - receiving a 2:1 BA (Hons) Degree, followed by a Post Graduate Certificate of Education in Art and Design
I have worked for 24 years as an art, photography, graphics and technology teacher, achieving some of the best ART and Design GCSE and A Level results in the country (Nationally in the top 3%)
Ofsted rated my teaching and learning as 'Outstanding'
Leaving my teaching career as a successful Assistant Headteacher of 10 years to take time out
Training with EnterprisingYou to create and launch my new business idea and becoming the Director of Don't Burst My Bubble Ltd
During this time my mum brought me a
silver bracelet engraved with
'She believed she could so she did'
Little did I know I would!
My Journey - My recovery
Up and down - round and round
In 2021 I had a mental health crisis that took me on a painful journey that changed my life.
A journey that caused severe depression, anxiety and self harm, leading to an eating disorder I'd previously suffered during my childhood.
I found myself in a dark place which forced me to leave my teaching career I loved, to give myself the space to undertake counselling and regain my mental and physical health
My recovery started the day I looked at my unused art desk and realised I missed the pleasure art gave me.
That day my fear helped me to be brave and I remember picking up my paints, splattering them on an old piece of work and I began to make marks.
Every day the marks started to make sense and they started to tell my story of my journey and of my recovery.
Each day for 10 minutes, keeping the same paper, I made my marks, layering the marks on top of each other using every day ordinary objects that started to create extraordinary outcomes, physically, visually and emotionally.
At the end of the week I found I had created my story, my weeks journey, my weeks recovery and my week's 'Marks that Matter' that (little did I know) was the start of my company!
IT ONLY TAKES A MINUTE TO FALL IN LOVE
AND IT ONLY TAKES A MINUTE TO FALL IN LOVE WITH THE PROCESS
(Don't Burst My Bubble Ltd)
YOU ARE WHAT YOU THINK - therefore today
I am a happy pink marshmallow!
Every cloud has a silver lining and this is mine
MY Vision and Values
D: Strive to Be DIFFERENT by
- Embrace and nurture our own creative mindsets
- Celebrate our uniqueness as individuals
- Connect to our heART
B: Seek to Be BOLD by
- Reach out and connect to our world
- Discover ourselves and our communities
- Implement our own 'marks that matter' to learn our own vision and values
M: Be MINDFUL because you deserve it
- Create time and space in our daily lives to pause and appreciate who we are, what we have achieved and where we want to be
- Understand that making art is a mindset that takes you on a voyage out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary.
B: Be BEAUTIFUL because you are
- Understand beauty comes from within
- Learn how to WORK - REST and PLAY!
- Allow the mind to have space to create a beautiful and happy future
- Explore and open the mind to creativity and what it looks like within you
ON YOUR MARKS - GET SET - LET'S GO!
