Ursula Bevan Hunter Studio

Ursula Bevan Hunter

Art Studio, Edinburgh, Scotland

Artist : Art Tutor : Qualified Art Therapist, HCPC, BAAT

My teaching practice focuses on multidisciplinary process-based art making, specialising in painting and printmaking.

I have 25 years of experience in community engagement and creative workshop facilitation, and I have recently completed training in psychodynamic and trauma-informed Art Therapies.

In current research, positioning myself as the subject, I have been exploring the therapeutic and symbolic potential of textile making, mending and embroidery within art psychotherapy practice. The study examined how making textile forms can function as embodied and narrative methodologies for trauma processing and self-realisation while also drawing on cultural practices of storytelling and resistance.

I am also currently studying attunement to the felt senses and bilateral drawing for trauma processing with the Institute for Sensorimotor Art Therapy.

Qualifications:

BA (hons) Environmental Art - Glasgow School of Art
PGDip Printmaking - Brighton University
MA iIllustration - Edinburgh College of Art.
MSc Art Psychotherapy - Queen Margaret University

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Using myself as both subject and researcher, I have been exploring the therapeutic and symbolic potential of textile making, sewing, darning and embroidery

Investigating how textile-making can offer embodied and narrative processes for trauma integration and self-realisation, while also engaging with cultural traditions of storytelling, repair, and resistance.

These textile pieces were made as part of the art-based research for my MSc in Art Psychotherapy.

Informed by universal archetypal forms, they express versions of the self. The inner child represents an experience of vulnerable self-awareness carried into adulthood. The Great Mother is a powerful embodiment of the self as an artist, expressing creativity and a deep sense of connection with all living things.

studio practice 2024

A series of studies of rock formations. Paintings and drawings in pencil and neon acrylics. From photographs taken on coastal walks. These works stem from concerns about the chemical and plastic pollution of our coastlines and how this might impact on biodiversity and our fragile marine ecologies - 2024