Art-full Living is your path to wellness, a holistic blueprint for health, happiness and wellbeing through unleashing your creativity for health. It is about using the arts for mental health, and seeing that the arts are medicine. We are all artists according to Pablo Picasso – it’s just a matter of drawing it out of your inner core.
My name is Jill Rivers and I’m an Arts for Wellness advocate on a mission to make arts & culture accessible to everyone everywhere and empower you to thrive.
How can the arts boost mental health?
It is never too late. I was a latecomer to experiencing the value of engaging in the arts myself, although as a New Zealander was no stranger to the deep emotional value of connecting to culture and community. I have an affinity to landscape and particularly mountains – the majesty and mystery of the natural world, the timelessness renewal and infinity.
After a lifetime in arts writing and management, I abandoned city life to move to the spaces of Central Victoria, Australia and established Daylesford Macedon Ranges Open Studios and Art-full Conversations & Experiences – soirees and workshops sharing the secrets of Movers, Shakers & Creators and the new thinking around arts as medicine with the wider world. In awareness of our ageing population, Good Grief Gigs will launch in March 2025, as a celebration of life and loss.
The arts are medicine — creativity for health!
I am committed to empowering people to take control of their own health and wellbeing through creativity. I implore you to maximise the benefits of Art-full Living, and take advantage of creativity for your health in life and loss.
I’d love to chat with you…. tell me your story and I’ll tell you mine. Let’s share our stories of living longer and better, creatively.
Contact me to for information or with ideas for Good Grief Gigs, to share your story and to place orders for the book (or use the Buy Now button below) – RRP: $24.99 + $10 Postage
hello@art-fullliving.com.au
Mobile: 0418 389 189
Have a happy day — and here’s to arts for mental health!
Jill
Engaging in arts and culture keeps us happy and healthy in mind and body, offsetting loneliness, giving a sense of belonging, purpose, hope, opportunity , beauty and sensuality into our lives.