All the artworks in this exhibition have been created by individuals who have engaged with ArttherapyYorkshire’s Art of Gold Monday’s group.
The aim of this exhibition is to offer those involved the opportunity to showcase their creative abilities and willingness to share ideas and different approaches using creativity to develop confidence, self
esteem and general well-being. Art of Gold is an art therapy group of supported individuals with learning difficulties and disabilities.
Art of Gold meet on Monday’s and have for several years. Over the years the group has evolved, though the purpose of the group has remained, to support and develop self esteem, self confidence and to share experiences. Using the art materials, members can explore and share new skills with
the group. Art of Gold would like to share a selection of the artwork produced by the current six group members. These members have given consent for their artwork to be displayed and would like to share
their names with the audience. ArttherapyYorkshire and Art of Gold hope you enjoy this small exhibition.

After 6 years at The Street we have moved our base to the beautiful Woodend Creative at the Crescent Scarborough. Here we will be able to utilise the shared areas including the gardens and gallery space. Moving 2 studios was fun and games as you may imagine !

We are really thrilled to be able to offer an art therapy group specifically for Men. This has now been running for a few weeks and has a great group of men meeting to address mental health issues through Art Therapy. Many thanks to the Two Ridings Foundation in York who organised the High Sheriffs Dragons Den last year and for the donation which is funding this work.

A big shout out to the team at Scarborough and Ryedale Mountain Rescue who have partnered with us to offer immediate support to any team member adversely affected by their work. Bravo to this initiative!

We are grateful to the customers at our local Tesco stores who voted for us. We have been granted £1000 which will provided much needed art therapy to persons in need of support locally.