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.
VisualArt Therapy: Fragments to Wholeness – Activating Emotional Integration Through Guided Mark-Making
Art has long served as a medium for expression, yet many people struggle to give shape to internal emotional states within traditional conversational spaces. This paper and participatory workshop introduce VisualArt Therapy: Fragments to Wholeness — a process-led approach that uses guided verbal cues, breathwork,
and layered mark-making on canvas to move participants from fragmented emotional expression toward a felt sense of integration.
Developed within a creative health framework, the session unfolds in two connected phases. In Fragmentation, participants work eyes closed, responding in pencil to short spoken prompts paced by breath and silence rather than music — generating instinctive, scattered marks free from cognitive filtering. In Integration, participants open their eyes and use paint to consciously weave these fragments into a unified composition, drawing on visual art techniques such as layering, colour bridging, and negative space. The session closes with participants naming their finished piece, anchoring the emotional journey in language.
This approach is rooted in lived experience and in a body of work exploring trauma, survival, and identity through abstraction — including a collection examining SGBV and mental wellbeing, and ongoing exhibition and press coverage on art as a tool for reclaiming wholeness after fragmentation. It extends this practice into a structured, replicable workshop format suitable for community, institutional, and clinical settings. Positioned within the broader discourse of art as a route to healing, this session offers a distinctive, canvas-based model for guided visual expression — one that does not rely on live music, but on voice, breath, and paint, to help participants externalise, integrate, and name what words alone cannot reach.
