[Video] Creativity, Confidence and Connection

Mindful Art Club exhibition celebrates a year of women’s recovery.

In May 2026, Mindful Art Club CIC welcomed visitors to Leadworks in Stonehouse for a moving exhibition featuring artwork created by women who have spent the past year taking part in weekly mindful art sessions across Plymouth.

Made possible through funding from the Livewell Foundation, the project supported women experiencing mental health challenges and recovering from substance misuse, providing safe, welcoming spaces where creativity became a pathway to healing, connection and self-expression.

Video One shows a brief walk around the exhibition, narrated by Peggy Melmoth, Co-founder of Mindful Art Club CIC. Featured artists include Ellen Wilton and Rachel Mullee. Collaborative works are Inspiring Women, Self Portraits, Handprints, and Mandala Plates.

More of the Mindful Art Club art exhibition. May 2026. Featured artists: Abi Bee, Peggy Melmoth, Yvette Moran. Collaborative art pieces: Dreamcatchers, Letters, and ‘Connection is Why We’re Here’.

Part Three: Featured artists: Sophie Deer, Rebecca Bee, Maile Mia Heart, Kerry Evans, Emma Sprawson. Collaborative piece: ‘Strong Women Quilt’. ‘.

Follow Emma Sprawson art: https://www.instagram.com/emmaspraw

Visit Emma Sprawson’s website; Emma is an illustrator who specialises in naive art.

If you’d like to join us at one of our free weekly art groups book yourself a session here: Mindful Art Club on Eventbrite. We also offer Mindful Paint and Sip evenings.

She Read This Poem, and it Just Went Quiet

We first met Zoe Reilly when we were on a year-long Real Ideas business start-up programme. Zoe is an advocate for women and a campaigner for ending Violence Against Women and Girls. She was a Green Party candidate for Plympton Chaddlewood in the recent local elections. So she seemed like the perfect person to invite to speak at our launch party for our Women’s Art Exhibition at Leadworks.

Zoe took to the stage and delivered something that made the room go quiet, and listen. This poem is for every woman who’s been told to sit down, speak up, be quiet, stand up, and still got back up anyway. You are not broken. You are not behind. You are a phoenix, lying in wait.

Our women’s group meets weekly in Plymouth, at Greenspace, 30 Mutley Plain; a safe space for peer support, creativity, and connection. No pressure. No performance. Just real women, showing up for each other.

Follow Mindful Art Club on Eventbrite to find out when and where our next sessions are happening near you.

Survival to Sovereignty – Zoe Reilly

NEW: Six Week Women’s Art Group


Did you know that inner calm is just a four minute walk away from Plymouth’s St Andrews Cross? Join us at the Unitarian Church hall, near Catherine Street, for our NEW women’s art group; a welcoming space to ease anxiety, slow down, and reconnect with yourself. Supported by Devon Community Foundation’s end VAWG fund.

Every Friday at 1.00pm, until 10th October 2025

Tap the link to find more upcoming, free, sessions.

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