Scatterings of Light Art Publication

This is a hand assembled, 28 page, A5, full colour publication where images are printed on Fabriano paper. This art publication explores creative processes through texts and images by the artist to explore where the light gets in. This publication introduces us to a project that is led by a neurodivergent (autistic/ADHD) voice.

 Hello! Welcome to my artist, mentor and arts psychotherapy practitioner page. 
I am both an artist and an art psychotherapist. I offer Neurodiversity training in the arts and my disability training videos have been used by various art organisations such as Oily Cart, Sound and Music, and Daryl and Co, who are dedicated to removing down access barriers in the theatre, music and the arts. 
As an arts psychotherapist, I work with mainly neurodivergent clients or clients whose children are being diagnosed autistic/ADHD and they might want to explore their own neurodivergence. 
I also work as a mentor with many neurodivergent artists and am the founder of Magical Women, a project for autistic/ADHD women and non binary artists. I am also working towards autistic led art therapy group sessions to meet the needs of so many neurodivergent people who are low income. 
As an artist, my practice is moved by feelings of “otherness” offered through the prism of ritual and magic. Using repetitive/rhythmic gestures, my autistic/ADHD/synaesthesia lens explores texture, voice, recorded media & live performance. 
I layer sound, sculpting it around repeated images from nature. My work has a phantasmagorical feel, overwhelming and immersive, secretive, yet particularly revealing to diverse audiences. It has been compared to a Leonora Carrington psychological landscape: At one level displaying a consciousness echoing an ancient sensibility. At another level expressing something intensely contemporary. 
My work has been supported and presented by: The Supporting Act Foundation, Arts Council England, Canal and River Trust, The Free Space Project/Creative Health Camden, Cole's Gallery Leeds, Drake Music Scotland, Unlimited, LADA, Shape, Tate Modern, Guerrilla Zoo, Hammersmith Lyric Theatre, Camden People’s Theatre, Drake Music, Disability Arts Online, and European Investment Bank, Luxembourg. 
My work can be purchased from Cole’s Gallery, Leeds. 

Artist, Art Psychotherapist, Mentor, Visual Arts Practice based PhD Researcher

  • I am a professional artist and work with video, sound, text and paint. My artist CV will be updated very soon.

  • As an art psychotherapist I work with neurodivergent clients or clients who think they might be neurodivergent and would like to explore that during our sessions. Not all my clients will use art materials and might prefer verbal therapy to begin with. Sessions are person-centred.

  • As an arts mentor, access consultant and specialist mentor, I work with neurodivergent clients in the arts industries or with arts organisations, institutions and theatres who would like to be more neurodivergent-inclusive.

  • I am undergoing a research project on a full scholarship at NTU Artistic Research Centre. My Director of Studies is Duncan Higgins.

Biodivergent Sites and Sounds

Biodivergent Sites and Sounds

Find out about my latest project, Biodivergent Sites and Sounds, funded by Arts Council England.

Partnering with Canal and River Trust, Cole’s Gallery and Creative Health Camden.

Lead artist: Elinor Rowlands

Journeying Workshop I facilitated in Leeds with the local community at Cole’s Gallery, Leeds. 2023 Part of my Biodivergent Sites and Sounds Project.

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On Paper Portfolio work.

Sound/ Video Art work.

Being Human (Response to being autistic), Watercolour on paper, 2020, by Elinor Rowlands

Being Human, Watercolour on paper, 2020, by Elinor Rowlands

Deciding to let the day go, Acrylic on 100% acid free paper, by Elinor Rowlands

Deciding to let the day go, Acrylic on 100% acid free paper, by Elinor Rowlands

Artist’s flow (in blue), Acrylic paints on canvas, 2021

Artist’s flow (in blue), Acrylic paints on canvas, 2021

Stacked Cups, Still Life, Soft pastels and acrylic art, 2021 (Sold) by Elinor Rowlands

Stacked Cups, Still Life, Soft pastels and acrylic art, 2021 (Sold) by Elinor Rowlands