Sarah Richards

Artist's Block: the Creation of a Workshop to Re-engage Visual Artists with Their Creative Process by Using the Natural Environment As a Facilitator Sarah Richards

This thesis was a four year long personal exploration into the question of Creative Block or Artist's Block which hindered Sarah Richards from engaging with her creative process. Her intention was to create a workshop, facilitated in a natural environment, to assist the creatively blocked artist re-engage with their creative process. Firstly, to assist with this research, it was essential to establish what the cause of artist's block could be and to gain more knowledge about the creative process itself. Sarah engaged in research to assess the possible effects of how the natural environment could help this process. Facilitation skills for this workshop are also highlighted in this thesis as essential skills for facilitating the workshops successfully. Finally to asses the validity of the data and the effect of the theories discussed, workshops were facilitated and assessed by the author.