Creative Rituals

For the final episode of season 3, today I’m sharing a conversation with Suzy Glaskie, health coach and founder of Peppermint Wellness. Suzy helps burn-out perfectionists reclaim their health, energy and emotional resilience - something I was in desperate need of in August 2024. Suzy coached me for the second half of last year, and in this conversation we discuss how I reached burnout in my own practice as an illustrator, and the work we did together to find a way out of that, towards a more balanced, happy and infinitely more creative life.

If you’ve reached a point of creative burnout I hope some of the things we discussed in today’s episode were helpful for you. Thank you and I hope you’ve enjoyed listening to this season of Creative Rituals! 🩷

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The Change Cycle

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This week’s interview is with Bella Bowker. Bella is an artist and founder of her successful business Sew Bella, creating beautiful and unique personalised items using embroidery techniques. Bella first learnt to embroider whilst on crutches following an accident at university, and over the last five years her business has flourished, going on to work with some huge names including Jo Malone and Selfridges. Bella recently moved to Copenhagen, and we caught up to discuss what it’s like running her business from abroad, what she embroidered for her own wedding, and some of the crazy projects we’ve both worked on over the years.

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CopenHot - urban garden of hot tubs, saunas and cold plunge tubs in Copenhagen
Salad Days Market
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

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This week we talk to artist and illustrator Emmy Porter, otherwise known as Emmy Oranges. As well as her work as an illustrator, Emmy also recently set up her business Art Ease, which seeks to provide workshops and artistic opportunities to her local area. Emmy is a shining light in her town of Southport, spreading colour and joy through her drawings and sunny disposition everywhere she goes. In this conversation we cover the role community plays in Emmy’s work, her brilliant shared studio space, how she took the leap from nursing to freelance life and the vulnerabilities that caused her to leave art school twice.

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The Engine Room
Art Ease CIC
Rachael Dean
Uncanny
ZOE Science & Nutrition
Feel Better Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
Make Change That Lasts by Dr Rangan Chatterjee
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This week we sit down with the artist and painter Sophie Castle. Sophie lives and works as an artist in Falmouth, which she also balances with an interior design job in London. She told me about how she juggles her time between the two, her studio habits, living as an artist by the sea, how to get past feeling vulnerable sharing your work online and why it’s always better to be weirdest and most true self.

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Robi Walters
Nettle Grellier
Chloe Wise
Anna Weyant
Natalia Gonzales Martin
The Chintz Bar and Underland, Falmouth
All Fours by Miranda July
Morgans gallery, Falmouth
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My guest this week is friend of Creative Rituals, children’s illustrator Rachael Dean, who illustrates the books for none other than Dame Jacqueline Wilson. I’d been inspired to reach out to Rachael again after resonating with a lot of the subjects she’d been sharing online recently. In this episode we discuss the things that can sometimes be a little tricky about working as an illustrator, how we both tackle difficult deadlines, making space for other areas of creativity in our lives, and reclaiming our voices via Substack.

Find Rachael here and her Substack, The Art of Being Real here
Find Georgie here and her Substack, Creative Rituals here

Twelve Moons: A Year Under a Shared Sky by Caro Giles
Sleepovers by Jacqueline Wilson
The Seaside Sleepover by Jacqueline Wilson
Whistle Down Farm series by Nicola Baker
One Home by Hiba Noor Khan
Think Again by Jacqueline Wilson
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken
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