Mark has facilitated many community workshops and projects, whether its Family Learning, adult education, museum interpretation or community events. Workshops are designed to provide creative opportunities, be co-creative, engaging and fun, whilst passing on skills and enabling participants.
Recent projects include;
Wallace House Community Garden Mosaic, 2026, Severn Arts. Working with an adult group to co-create a mosaic for their newly refurbished community garden space. The group moved from being beginners to confident makers, developing new skills and a shared sense of ownership of the artwork.
Winyates Craft Centre, 2025, Severn Arts & Reimagine Redditch. Working with users of the Centre to create a mixed media mural that explored what the Centre means to them, not just as a place for crafts, but also as a support for wellbeing, community pantry and family resources, which makes it a real hub in the community.
HAF Holiday Workshops, 2021- present, Severn Arts. Providing visual arts workshops on behalf of Severn Arts, funded by HAF across Worcestershire.
Worcester Carnival, 2023- present, Worcester Carnival & Severn Arts. Co-creating themed carnival floats and large puppets with the Worcester organisations such as Afro Caribbean Association and local school. Working with these organisations to bring their ideas alive and creating vibrant community art.
Barber Health Outreach Programme, 2022-23, Barber Institute of Fine Arts. Delivering a 6 month programme with residents of a local retirement village, responding to some of the Barber's portraits in the permanent collection and exploring the theme of identity. Based on a monthly art club format, we tried different techniques and materials including collage, clay, collagraphs and dry point etching.