Olubunmi Elizabeth Ebisemiju, professionally known as Elinth Arts, is a UK-based visual artist and creative health practitioner whose work explores emotional expression, human connection and mental wellbeing through abstract visual language. Her practice spans exhibitions, participatory installations and interdisciplinary collaborations that position art as a tool for dialogue, reflection and healing.
Her work has been exhibited across the United Kingdom and internationally, with features in publications including Telegraph & Argus, GoddessArt Magazine Germany and Vanguard Nigeria. She has received commissioned opportunities from galleries and wellbeing institutions, where her work is recognised for its ability to communicate complex emotional narratives through abstraction.
Elizabeth is the Founder of Creative Health, Arts & Culture CIC (CHAC CIC), a UK-based platform through which she designs and delivers programmes integrating art, wellbeing and community engagement. Her work aligns with the growing field of creative health and social prescribing, creating accessible spaces for emotional
exploration and shared experience.
She has delivered talks, workshops and participatory art experiences across institutional and community settings, and continues to develop interdisciplinary approaches that bridge visual art, performance and audience interaction to foster meaningful conversations through creative practice. Her eventual goal is to
collaboratively establish physical creative health hubs all across United Kingdom with other artists and health institutions, where these art-based therapeutic methodologies can be taught and applied to promote non-clinical mental wellbeing.
MusicArt Therapy: Activating Non-Verbal Dialogue Through Sound and Visual Expression
Workshop, with Samuel Ogundapo
Art has long served as a medium for expression, yet the challenge of articulating internal emotional states remains a barrier for many individuals engaging with traditional conversational spaces. This paper and participatory workshop introduce MusicArt Therapy—an interdisciplinary, process-led approach that combines live saxophone performance with guided visual art-making to activate non-verbal dialogue and emotional exploration.
Developed within a creative health framework, MusicArt Therapy positions art not as an outcome, but as a live conversational system. Participants engage in a structured, immersive experience where shifting tonal qualities of live saxophone music—ranging from solemn to upbeat, slow to intense—act as emotional cues. In response, participants create intuitive visual marks with eyes closed, allowing sound to guide gesture, rhythm and expression without cognitive interruption.
The process generates highly individual yet interconnected visual outputs, which become entry points for reflection and shared dialogue. By externalising internal states through sound and form, participants are able to access and communicate emotions that may otherwise remain unarticulated.
This approach builds on lived experience of how the combination of both music and visual art helped us and many others steadily recover from past trauma and had helped many relieve built-up stress. It also stems from prior successful participatory work delivered within institutional settings, including a large-scale interactive art
performance for University Mental Health Day in London, and is further being explored through an upcoming focus-group creative wellbeing retreat in the Lake District. These contexts provide a foundation for examining how interdisciplinary art practices can foster safe, inclusive spaces for emotional engagement.
Positioned within the broader discourse of art as a catalyst for conversation, this session contributes a replicable model for integrating performance, visual art and audience participation. It proposes MusicArt Therapy as an innovative approach to expanding how art initiates dialogue—within individuals, between participants, and across communities.
