Brush and Breathe
Brush and Breathe
Brush and Breath | Expressive Art and Mindful Therapeutic Workshops
Brush and Breath is a unique collaboration between Phiona of Mindful Moments Therapies and Julie and Rachel of The Sunflower Art Collective. Together, we create inclusive, supportive spaces where individuals can gently explore emotions, experiences, and wellbeing through creative expression.
Our workshops provide a safe, welcoming environment for anyone wishing to process feelings, trauma, bereavement, neurodiversity, or simply take time to reflect and reset. You do not need any artistic experience to take part. All materials are provided, and the focus is on expression rather than outcome.
Each Brush and Breath workshop is thoughtfully themed, offering a range of creative activities including collage, clay work, painting, doodling, and other mixed media. These sessions encourage self-discovery, emotional release, and mindful connection to the present moment.
Our Monthly Saturday three hour workshops provide the space to get greative, let the inner child play and find a voice, through expression and creativity.
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We also run regular weekly sessions specifically for:
Children and young people with special educational needs (SEN)
Carers
NHS and hospice staff
Military personnel
Emergency service and frontline workers
Farming community
Therapeutic art can support individuals living with anxiety, depression, PTSD, chronic stress, and burnout. It helps bring emotional resilience, improve self-awareness, and promote nervous system regulation. By combining creative expression with mindfulness-based approaches, Brush and Breath supports healing, recovery, and long-term wellbeing.
Whether you are looking to reconnect with yourself, explore personal challenges, or simply take a break from the demands of daily life, Brush and Breath offers a space where you can slow down, create freely, and feel supported.
Find calm through creativity. Reconnect through art. Heal through expression.
Join us and discover the restorative power of art and breath.
About Phiona
Creative Counsellor | Breathwork Practitioner | Hypnotherapist
Phiona Hutton is a compassionate and intuitive therapist who blends creative counselling, conscious breathwork, and hypnotherapy to support emotional healing, self-expression, and inner calm. With a gentle, person-centred approach, Phiona creates spaces where individuals can reconnect with themselves through both breath and creativity.
In the Brush & Breath Workshop, Phiona weaves together the power of mindful art-making with guided breath practices and relaxation techniques. Her work invites participants to slow down, explore their inner world, and express emotions in a safe, nurturing environment.
Phiona’s practice is rooted in the belief that creativity and breath are natural pathways to healing—and that through gentle presence and play, profound transformation can take place.
About Julie
Artist and Tutor
Julie Tucker is an artist and tutor living in Fareham, Hampshire. She has a background in community arts and has worked with all age groups on many projects. Her passion is Fine Art, particularly oil paint on canvas and she simply adores the genre Impressionism!
Julie taught various art classes at Ashcroft Arts Centre in Fareham for many years. Julie truly believes that art as a medium is incredibly therapeutic and should always be fun and relaxed – it is about empowering individuals to paint and be creative freely without judgement form others.
“To truly paint is to find oneself amidst the chaos of the world we live in”
About Rachel
Artist and Educator
Rachel Galpin is a passionate artist and educator with a love for mixed media, ceramics, and art therapy. She spent many years teaching in further education, specialising in working with individuals with learning disabilities. Her workshops are welcoming, therapeutic spaces where creativity, confidence, and a real sense of achievement can blossom.
Together with Julie, she’s made Sunflower Art Collective at Silver Springs Garden Centre a true success. Their combined expertise and uplifting, supportive energy have created a safe, relaxed environment where everyone feels free to explore, create, and learn new skills.
Rachel’s unique blend of artistic talent, teaching experience, and dedication to therapeutic art continues to inspire and empower people of all ages and abilities.