Beth Hoyes - [email protected] MA Art Psychotherapist and Supervisor BAAT&HCPC Registered
Summary:
Over the past two years I have developed an embroidery art practice and an embroidery business, working on commissions, developing and selling embroideries and embroidery DIY kits. My art practice has roots in animal symbolism and folklore and has evolved into creating immersive nature experiences through contemporary large-scale embroideries. I regularly exhibit with the Winnicott Wednesdays artist collective based in London. As an art therapist before relocating to the States, I delivered Art therapy services in schools and worked within two Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services for the National Health Service, both in community and clinical settings. I have delivered support, training and art workshops to other professionals within schools and community groups. Throughout these roles I have delivered group, individual, dyadic and family art therapy sessions to children, families and within communities. I have written several articles on my experience of art making and exhibiting as well as theory and art therapy practice, which you can find on my website www.bethhoyes.weebly.com. More recently I have written for Redline Art Center, with an artist interview and blog post related to monthly art workshops. I have extensive experience of working through art making with vulnerable children, young people and families in under resourced communities and have a vast and varied skill set in both social and art related fields.
Relevant Work History:
2017 – Current Creative Director, Artist and Embroiderer, Rabbit Hat Designs, Denver, CO
Overseeing day to day aspects of an independent embroidery business.
Developing and selling embroideries and embroidery DIY Kits online and in local shops
Ongoing embroidery art practice and commissions.
Writing monthly newsletters exploring my embroidery and art practice.
www.rabbithatdesigns.com
2016 – 2017 Art Therapy Professor, Goldsmiths University, London, UK
Delivering safeguarding children lectures.
Running 2 supervision groups for 1stand 2ndyear students.
Personal support tutorials for students.
Facilitating discussion groups with visiting artists and students on art practice, exhibiting and process.
2016 – 2017 Independent Art Therapist, Various Schools, London, UK
Running Art Psychotherapy assessment and sessions within a primary school for children and families.
Setting up a therapeutic ‘hub’ in school involving liaising with inclusion staff in school and providing training, workshops and supervision to professionals working with vulnerable children.
Providing regular consultation and therapeutic work to teaching staff and parents/carers.
Liaising with external agencies involved in children and families’ care and signposting and attending Core Group Meetings, Case Conferences, Team around the Child Meetings.
2015 – 2017 Workshop and Training Leader
Delivering mental health and art related training on rites of passage and attachment in adolescence including application of theories to practice for professionals working with young people.
Delivering workshops looking at Art Therapy theory through lectures and experiential art making.
2013 – 2016 Art Therapist and Counsellor, Schools Therapy Team, CAMHS, NHS
Worked within a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Primary and Secondary Schools Therapy Team within the NHS, autonomously as well as part of the team.
Provided individual and group Art Psychotherapy sessions for children and adolescents.
Working within the triage team, responding to urgent referrals, risk assessment and crisis prevention.
2011– 2013 Art Therapist & Co- Founder of The Art Therapy Project
Set up and ran a therapeutic service delivering Art Therapy interventions in London based primary and infant schools under schools’ employment.
2010 – 2011 Art Therapist (Trainee), CAMHS, Wych Elm House, Harlow. §Conducted referral, assessment and art therapy work as interventions within a multi-disciplinary Tier 3 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services clinic within the NHS.
2009 – 2010 Art Psychotherapist (Trainee), Kids Company, London. § Ran referral, assessment and ongoing sessions with children in a primary school.
2008 – 2009 Arts and Crafts Coordinator and Session Leader, St. Christopher’s School, Bristol. §Set up weekly Sensory Arts Sessions for groups of 8 members (8 – 18 age group) focusing on the sensual qualities of textures and materials with attention to individual needs. §Organised large-scale sessions for the whole school and conducted craft and art sessions for staff.
2007 – 2009 Support Worker, St. Christopher’s School, Bristol. §Enhanced the wellbeing, independence and abilities of two young boys with severe learning difficulties, through attention to activities, therapies, nutrition, education and communication needs. §Completed frequent reports and facilitated changes to ensure a nurturing and empowering environment. §Maintained good communication with parents, school staff members, occupational therapists, medical staff and physiotherapists. §Attended peer supervision, meetings and training on a regular basis.
Education and Qualifications:
2009 – 2011 Masters with Merit, Art Psychotherapy, Goldsmiths University, London.
2004 – 2007 First Class BA (Hons), Creative Arts (Creative Writing and Art), Bath Spa University, Bath.
2005 – 2006 Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), Bath Spa University, Bath.
2003 – 2004 Diploma in Art Foundation, Surrey Institute of Art and Design, Farnham.
2001 – 2003 A-Levels (Art, English Literature, Psychology), QMC, Basingstoke.
Training, Skills and Interests:
2019 – 2020 Wrote an artist interview and blog posts for Redline Art Center.
2012 – 2020 Exhibited artwork as a founding member of Winnicott Wednesdays; Artists and Art Psychotherapists Collective, and ran workshops within communities.
2005 – 2015 Worked with ceramics, lino printing, wood engraving, animation and book binding.
2009 – 2015 Member of the Creative and Publication team for a small yearly summer music festival in aid of The Butterfly Conservation charity.
2014 Received Supervision Training for Art Therapists from the British Association of Art Therapists.
2009 – 2011 Member of the Committee for the End of Year Exhibition at Goldsmiths University.
2009 – 2010Member of IF and Drawn, international collectives, which fuse the work of artists, writers and musicians to create bi-monthly magazines and orchestrate events.
2005 – 2011Completed numerous training courses, including: Strategies for Crisis Intervention and Prevention, Child Protection, Picture Communication, Makaton, Manual Handling, Challenging Behaviour, Autism Seminars.