Alison is an artist, Inclusive Arts Practitioner and Therapeutic Counsellor who works with people in nature. Her creative career began as a landscape painter in Alderney in the Channel Islands, followed by work as an illustrator and muralist. She also spent many years working outdoors as a tree surgeon, experiences that have shaped her deep connection with the natural world.

She has used the arts to work alongside adults and children affected by substance misuse and domestic abuse, as well as people with disabilities and unpaid carers. Chosen by carers to develop an Arts in Nature project, Alison spent 2025 as Artist in Residence with Sussex charity Care for the Carers, creating opportunities for carers to experience creativity, connection and respite in nature.

Alison qualified as an Integrative, Humanistic & Therapeutic Counsellor at the Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education. She has since worked with the Bower Tree counselling service and as a bereavement counsellor for children and adults at St Wilfrid’s Hospice.

She brings together her diverse creative, practical and therapeutic experience in her work within creative health and community settings. She is particularly interested in the relationship between creativity, nature and wellbeing, and is exploring a new dimension of this relational work through offering therapeutic support to individuals.