What We Offer
The Peaceful Paintbrush is a compassionate and inclusive art studio where individuals of all abilities, backgrounds and life experiences are invited to explore art as a pathway to wellbeing, connection and self-discovery.
Group workshops and one-to-one sessions blend professional fine art expertise with meditation, therapeutic non-clinical approaches and contemplative wisdom teachings. Joanne facilitates offline, unplugged art classes and reflective workshops from her city centre art studio in Metro House, Chichester and The Green Door Centre in Bosham. Each gathering is an open invitation to return to the creative pulse that lives within us all, a space where curiosity is medicine and imagination is the doorway to wholeness.
We welcome everyone at any stage of creative experience - artists, beginners, dreamers, neurodivergent thinkers, soul-led seekers and those who are ready to move beyond burnout, perfectionism, reclaiming their wellbeing and healing through a creative practice. Sessions with Joanne are not about proving anything. It’s about just being.
We honour creative bravery and those who feel the belonging that blooms when heart and hands meet. Every offering, every gathering is a seed anchored in purpose, rooted in meaning and connected to the heart.
Join us in a gentle container, a quiet pause where transformation happens softly. A space for renewal, for reflection that feeds the soul. A permission rich space where the quiet inner artist reawakens and unfolds naturally, as we create from within.
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"Through mindful mark-making, fine art practice, cacao, sacred circles, and reiki, my imagination blooms, wonder flourishes and my heart found quiet healing."
"A creative life is an amplified life. It’s a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life"
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
by Elizabeth Gilbert
All clients paint alongside Joanne at her art studio as she develops her ongoing body of work and projects. This real world collaborative approach fosters a dynamic creative environment where participants actively engage in the artistic process and arts business, gaining insight into professional practice while contributing to a shared journey of exploration and expression.
No Two Journeys
Are the Same
All our creative opportunities are intentionally unplugged, but we understand that many people find it hard to disconnect. That’s why we promote positive, ad-free tools to gently uplift your practice and help you begin, so over time, you can step away from doom-scrolling and into mindful creativity.
Every participant receives free access to the world’s largest ad-free library of guided meditations, music tracks, worksheets and talks, providing ongoing tools for calm, creativity, and transformation.
Your journey continues long after the session ends — supporting lasting change, one mindful step at a time. Find out more or book an introductory meeting with Joanne.
