Jo Campbell Artist
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    • Frames Gallery - Scotland 2014
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    • Trees Exhibition, Fairholme Gallery 2013 >
      • Paper Pigment Wax, Oxford 2013
    • Doors:Unhinged, Nelson 2013
    • Tides Collide Exhibition - Nelson 2012
    • Landlines Exhibition - Kereru Gallery 2013
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What is the Feathers Project?

Jo Campbell Transformative Art
Since 2015, I moved from painting full-time to working in the field of mental health. I have always wanted to combine art and therapeutic practice. In 2017, I developed the Feathers Project at a time when I was feeling a lot of self-doubt and hopelessness about the world. I wanted to find a way to counter my strong negativity bias and let some nourishment in.  

I used my training in Hakomi somatic therapy, positive neuroplasticity and art therapy to develop the Feathers Project. The process adapts Rick Hanson's HEAL model by including a visual practice. Over the course of a year I made 350 paper feathers, each one capturing a 15 min process of 'taking in the good', and finally wove them into a feather cloak.

Since then I have used this process with face-to-face and online clients working through experiences of grief, depression, anxiety, trauma, and self-doubt.

I have developed a website specific to the The Feathers Project - so please jump on over there to find out more about how the feathers process works. 

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The Feathers Project Website
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