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Creative Instinct Gallery
Take a look at some of the projects and workshops we have run in our
Creative Instinct community and experience what creativity means to recovery.
Want to be involved?
Creative Instinct runs weekly at our Wisbech, Huntingdon
and Cambridge Recovery Cafe's.
Junk Journals
Our Creative Instinct community created incredibly intricate and decorative journals about wellbeing, recovery, book reviews and much more! Using scrap materials and multimedia techniques to create journals to grow with them!
Light Up The Town
Huge shoutout to our incredible Wisbech community for bringing this stunning moving light display to life! Projected onto Wisbech Museum as part of Fenland’s Light Up The Town, this masterpiece truly lit up the night!
Winter Scenes
Over the festive period our Creative Instinct community worked on created these wonderful Winter Scenes to represent what winter means for them!
Creative Instinct Launch Events
Our newest publication 'Creative Instinct' launched in April 2024. All art and creativity included in the publication was produced by members of our community.
Mixed Gallery
A gallery of mixed media workshops and projects from our creative community over the last 2 years. Creative Instinct is an welcoming open invitation for people of all artistic abilities to embrace what creativity means to recovery.
Van Gogh Inspired Mini Masterpieces!
These Van Gogh inspired mini canvas paintings using acrylic are still being worked on. We can't wait to see how they turn out.
Doodle Boards!
On weeks where we don't run structured workshops our doodle boards are rolled out onto tables. They offer our community a relaxed space that puts people at ease and gives them the freedom to doodle on the long canvas as they sit and speak within the group. Our doodle boards have been around a while now. We hope to finish them soon.
Botanical theme – Huntingdon
Tribal vibe – Wisbech
The intricate mix – Cambridge
Experimenting With Clay
Sculpting, carving and painting clay.
Experimenting with clay ran over a number of weeks. We provided materials for our community to sculpt and carve their own creative projects.
Some weeks we ran autuminal or animal themes and other weeks we worked on longer-term projects.
We loved seeing the progress of these creations from clay to colourful and detailed master pieces.
Paper Flowers
Our Wisbech group learnt how to make these amazing paper flowers.
One of our community members led a Creative Instinct Workshop at our Wisbech Recovery Cafe where we learnt how to make paper flowers!
Everyone who took part really enjoyed making these flowers that they got to take home!
Paint Pouring
Paint Pouring run by two of our Creative Instinct members!
Two of our regular Creative Instinct members based in Huntingdon are pro’s when it comes to acrylic pouring. They set up a mini pouring table for people to try.
The large blue/gold one was a group pour that we completed at the end.
We can't wait to run this project again!
Marble Ink
In this workshop we covered marbles in ink and then rolled them on our blank pages or artwork to see what effects they created.
Zentangle
Zentangle has become a very popular go-to within our recovery community for weeks we don't run structured workshops.
Needle Felting
An on-going group project at our Huntingdon Free Flow Friday Recovery Cafe.
Paintings
A selection of paintings created by members of our recovery community.
Macrame
In June 2023 one of our community members ran another of her fantastic Macrame workshops for our Huntingdon Free Flow Friday group!
We loved experiment with this ancient art of knot tying and came away with new keyrings!
Texture Under Acrylics
We used poly filler and air drying clay to sculpt depth into our images and then painted over them with acrylic paint. We enjoyed figuring out which parts of our images to add the texture to and how it changed the effects of our images.
We took inspiration from images and used our imagination to make them unique.
