Suzi and Cathy meet and chat with Visual Medicine Artist, based in London, UK - SUZETTE CLOUGH

More about Suzette:

Painting is my Spirit practice. It is a way of tapping into a world that is invisible, interconnected and vibrantly alive. Painting is a portal to experiencing that we, too, are part of Creation. My lifelong work and passion is in synthesising creativity, spirituality and embodied emotional intelligence as an oracular path. I originally trained in painting at Sydney College of the Arts - in Australia, the country of my birth. Whilst at art school I had a breakdown which guided the next decades of my life culminating in a move to London in 1985, and training as a somatic psychotherapist at the Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy. This was a radical and life changing 5-year training in embodied psychotherapy. As well as an intensive hands-on practitioner training I entered into a long term psychoanalytic therapy.As a psychotherapist I have worked in a psychiatric hospital running art therapy groups, also as a 12 step addiction counsellor using art-making with clients with eating disorders and other addictions. I have worked at London Lighthouse, a radical hospice for people with HIV and AIDS, alongside various healing projects where I have used Visual Medicine with women who have experience of the criminal justice system and those with mental health issues stemming from the pernicious effects of patriarchy on our collective nervous system.