What is SAMS-art ?

SAMS-art is a mobile art service that is primarily focused on providing residents in residential and care homes creative opportunities within their own environments.

These creative opportunities are based around regular art sessions that provide the time and space for individuals to paint through a structured and step-by-step process.

SAMS-art provides creative and stimulating sessions which can provide SAMS-artists the chance to see what they can create themselves with gentle guidance.

What SAMS-art provides...

SAMS-art sessions are for around 1¼ hours for groups of around four - six people. This size of group is a good balance between level of assistance and a social activity.

The service is possible through a small fee from each individual per session, which goes towards materials and running costs. This, I feel is vital in order for the service to continue running and not having to rely on diminishing overstretched annual funding.

Within the sessions I provide gentle guidance, with each participant creating a final mounted painting by the end. Initially, the participants would be shown how to paint watercolour landscapes. If the individual wished they could progress over time through a loosely structured framework, which builds upon the techniques and processes the individual learns.

I hope that the services would provide an interesting, social, creative and stimulating weekly routine, and also give the resident's an opportunity to create something themselves, promoting a sense of achieving something on their own.