Creative Companionship
An opportunity to lean in, to find support for your practice at this time…
I am currently offering a process of one to one, or small group mentoring and creative companionship for artists at all stages of their working lives. This includes dialogue through relational movement practice in different landscapes, plus embodied approaches to working and moving with the material realism of a place/ecosystem.
We will be able to develop a bespoke process, responsive to the current preoccupations in your working practices. Activity might take the form of walks, movement, scores, bodywork, conversation, thinking and reading together. Moving into writing and drawing, deep listening and silence, the arts of noticing and new materialist thinking underpin the process.
We can work in situ, or adapt this process for an online context; working through responsive conversation and prompts for engagement within your chosen situation and locale.
It is also possible to be in residence in our village for up to 3 days, situated in the cottage residency centre at 2 Penrhiw in Abercych in the lower Teifi valley, rural Pembrokeshire, Cymru/ Wales. https://www.2penrhiw.co.uk/
Please contact me for hourly/daily rates and any questions…there is flexibility related to your resources.
TESTIMONIALS:
Today we walked and talked. We found ways of relating to the land and being with it. Not just being with the land but being with a lot of other agents too. We were with the mud, sand and our feet. We were with balance, sinking and rising. With birds and other creatures more able that us. We were with horizon line and moving tides. With fish, snakes, and alligators. With swelling and emptying. We were with tipping and falling backwards. We were with uneven ground, holes, reeds, cracks and sediment. We were with each other, sharing and learning. We were with the past and childhood. We were with the ventricles of the brain and the estuarine existence. With swelling, skiing, bobbing, flicking and running. We were with sinking.
Tess Wood. Performance Artist (2026)
Simon has an innate knowledge of the movement and choreography of the body. As a mentor he creates this gentle, nurturing space where you can truly find your potential; things you perhaps didn’t realise were within you. Every time I work with Simon, it is a gift and a privilege.
Anna Falcini. Visual Artist. (2026)
I feel so grateful for Simon’s creative companionship, a process that’s been both nourishing and inspiring. Over the past six months, as we’ve moved in, and with, the animate landscape, he has guided my practice into rich new territory, cultivating a space where body and imagination can thrive.
Susan Richardson. Poet. (2026)
Simon was patient, thoughtful and adaptive to our evolving sessions and what felt like a grounding companion to my practice. Having someone meet me wherever I was at, who understood and witnessed my process, truly encouraged a moving practice; rather than feeling stagnant and alone with it. His support this year has been invaluable.
Maeve Clara. Interdisciplinary Artist. (2026)