Meet the Artists

Here you can find out more about the wonderful people that have prepared a creative workshop for you. Click on the images or names to jump, or just keep scrolling.

After a fifteen year in scripted television working with writers and storytellers from all backgrounds to help them realise their vision, I started my own business as a creative coach in 2025. A queer neurodivergent writer and poet myself, I offer gentle, non-judgmental, inclusive coaching, courses, and workshops for neurodivergent storytellers, where they can build a life that works for them, and unlock their creativity. 

Laurie's Workshop:

Unlocking Your Creativity

Passionate about the sustainability, inspired by nature and science, I like to design fun, timeless and most of all comfortable pieces that you can use to enrich your wardrobe and that are enjoyable to make.
I started out as a designer of regular crochet patterns in 2016, then expanded into the world of Tunisian crochet in 2020, with an emphasis on lace and texture, plus working on pushing the boundaries of shapes and shaping in crochet design.
For many designs I put in the effort to create charts that go along with the written instructions, and to create easy read or mobile friendly versions for increasing the accessibility of my patterns.

Andrea's Workshop:

Crochet stained glass motif - North star granny square

Artist Dana Primrose Bloede paints portraits and teaches workshops in her home art studio in the woods of Illinois. A Chicago native, creative soul, and proud AuDHD neurodivergent.
"My mixed media portraits draw from my Native American & Mexican heritage. Captivated by forests, my paintings have a serene narrative with a soulful message. Each painting tells an untold story about women in a way that words cannot. I often paint mystical and feminine archetypes. My paintings are meant to evoke feelings of peacefulness, strength and warmth. My work is mixed media, built up in layers of acrylic paint, inks, collage, and textiles, intentionally aged and distressed to obtain an old world charm. If you love vintage or antiques, you will love my work!

My paintings now live in homes across the world, from South Africa to Switzerland, Australia to Beijing, and every corner in between.

To find out more about Dana & to view her artwork, please visit her Instagram page or website.

Dana's Workshop:

Miniature Painting of a "Lover's Eye"

Dr Sarah Jane Nuttall is an autistic writer and researcher who specialises in creating supportive, accessible spaces for neurodivergent people to explore their creativity. Her work spans education, theatre, and community arts, with a focus on how stories help us make sense of our identities and experiences. She has developed research on autistic student teachers, neurodivergent university learners, and creative‑critical approaches that value lived experience as a form of expertise. Sarah also facilitates long‑running creative writing programmes for neurodivergent women and non‑binary participants, where she uses narrative, sensory awareness, and reflective practice to help people connect with their voice. She believes writing can be a grounding, liberating process — a way to think, feel, and imagine differently. In her workshops, Sarah brings gentleness, structure, and humour, encouraging participants to experiment, rest, and create in ways that feel safe and genuinely their own.

Sarah's Workshop:

Write a poem: Success guaranteed!

Jez is a multidisciplinary artist, writer and founder of Neurodivergent Art Club, an online community helping neurodivergent adults reconnect with creativity without pressure or perfectionism. As an autistic artist, Jez believes art isn't just about producing beautiful things, but about making space to breathe, explore and understand ourselves.

Working with found objects, natural materials, plant inks and mixed media, their creative practice celebrates curiosity, play and the beauty of imperfection. Through workshops, body-doubling sessions and practical resources, they encourage people to start small, embrace unfinished work and discover that creativity can be gentle, accessible and deeply nourishing.

Their workshops are warm, welcoming and firmly rooted in the idea that there is no "right" way to make art. Whether someone hasn't picked up a pencil for twenty years or creates every day, everyone deserves a place at the table and permission to make gloriously wonky things. After all, creativity still counts, even on imperfect days.

Jez's Workshop:

The Wonky Zine Workshop

KR is a gender non-compliant, AuDHD writer, collage artist and creative facilitator. Their autofictional novella, The First Law of Motion was published in the US in 2009 and they spent 15 years teaching creative writing at the University of East Anglia before leaving academia to become a freelance facilitator. They are the initiator and administrator of Neuroqueer Creative (neuroqueercreative.com), an international collective of creative facilitators dedicated to building a more neuroqueer society through decapitalised creative practices and radical social justice. There they facilitate learning spaces around writing and neuroqueering creative practice more generally. They have recently rediscovered a childhood love of visual art through the medium of collage and share their work at @accidental.collage. KR grew up on the unceded lands of the Lenni Lenape people but has lived in Norwich, UK for the past 20 years.

KR's Workshop:

The Joys of Tiny Art: ATCs & ACEOs

Hi! I'm Janina, multi-curious and creative, autistic and ADHD, artist and scientist, structured and chaotic! When burnout and Long Covid hit me, I had to figure out my creative practice with low capacity, and now I show neurodivergent and chronically ill creatives the way back to their creative joy.

I usually rotate between 100+ projects, mostly in traditional media like watercolour, oil painting, coloured pencils and ink drawings, sketchbooks and journals, but digital too, as well as fibres and textiles with sewing, knitting, crochet, cross-stitch, and screen printing. My largest sources of inspiration is the natural world, especially landscapes & plants, and the materials themselves.

My squirrel brain is never short of ideas, but my spoons are very limited. In adapting my projects and connecting with my neurokin, I found that making art in any form is essential for my healing and wellbeing. More creativity, less overwhelm - welcome to my world!

Janina's Workshop:

Cross-stitched Pronoun Patches