About me, Laura Elliott, creator of Drawesome
I create art, comics and workshops under the name Drawesome, specialising in wellbeing and self-exploration. I’m based in the southwest UK – North Somerset, near Bristol.
My unique approach injects a playfulness, including gamifying art classes, and balancing humour and compassion, creating artwork and workshops with sensitivity and curiosity.
I’m Laura Elliott, the multidisciplinary artist, illustrator and creative facilitator behind Drawesome
My background in various artistic disciplines, and my unique sense of whimsy, inspires my light-hearted approach to helping people contemplate deep questions.
What exactly is meant by ‘multidisciplinary artist’?
I enjoy finding ways to be expressive. I draw from a background in illustration, comics, and writing, as well as my experience in a variety of artistic disciplines such as design, dance, and crafting. This means that whilst rooted in visual arts, I have a variety of tools to approach a project.
I’ve had the pleasure of exhibiting interactive illustrated origami, performing at Bristol Burlesque Festival, and illustrating a Sketchbook Project journal for Brooklyn Arts Library – featured in The New York Magazine.
What kind of workshop facilitator are you?
By using art for my own self-exploration and self-expression, I found value in sharing these art techniques. This led me to facilitate creative workshops for adults that could be used for mindfulness, wellbeing, and delving into deep personal insights.
Whilst honing my own artistic skills, I instigated skill-sharing and accountability sessions for creative freelancers, to enhance our creative practice and peer support.
I’ve taught life drawing classes to hen parties, hosted a 24 Hour Comic Challenge for the LDComics community, devised and delivered a Gratitude Workshop for Shine Cancer Support’s conference Shine Connect, and ran art workshops exploring mortality – including for Good Grief Festival and Brass Bathtub.
Why create art about death and mental wellbeing?
In navigating my own experiences of love and loss, I devised artistic exercises to help me process a deeper understanding of my own personal journey. By channelling these experiences and sharing these techniques, I help others to explore their own assumptions and insights, empowering them to express themselves in a way that suits them.
Laura works as an associate artist with Brass Bathtub CIC on the Arts Council England funded project 100 Ways To Say Goodbye. She co-founded and co-hosts the workshop series Life Handover which helps participants with the thought-work required to put their end-of-life affairs in order.
Praise for Laura
"Laura is an excellent facilitator creating a safe and friendly environment where difficult thoughts could emerge without judgement."
Workshop participant
"Laura has an innate calm and natural way of communicating with touches of humour while holding the space for everyone."
Workshop participant
"Because of her sensitive approach we are able to express ourselves freely and in confidence within the group and her methods often provoke surprising ideas and reflections."
Workshop participant
"'Working with Laura was a joy. From the initial conversations about me, my work and my emerging business, she just seemed to get exactly what I was looking for."
Illustration client
"The combination of Laura’s experience in a variety of disciplines creates an alchemy of experimental concepts executed with poise, charm and the minute precision."
Mentor, in response to performance Hotbot 3000
"Laura is an awesomely talented illustrator and I am a huge admirer of her work! I do not believe that any of my recent ventures would have been so successful without her artwork to promote them."
Illustration client