Hello world!

I’m a Freelance Artist, YouTuber, Blogger and Artist Educator who specialises in therapeutic art with a cosmic twist!

My name is Stevie, and I’m the proud owner of cosmiccreativebits, which I started in late 2018 as a way to manage my mental health (by myself) alongside my first round of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy sessions through university; the art provided a starting point when I didn’t necessarily have the right words to explain.

The above piece was one of my first therapeutic artworks and was a response to starting CBT, I thought therapy was about handing over your head and it’d be fixed, but therapy actually teaches you how to fix yourself. I found the combination of self taught therapeutic art and therapy to be LIFE CHANGING.

In the beginning I mainly used watercolour and a ballpoint pen, lyrics or quotes were also used to portray my thoughts/feelings and I chose colour(s) I felt like using rather than traditional colour theory. There’s like a science behind colours — they all have meanings both positive and negative but it’s completely subjective, meaning the same colour can vary on its meaning from person to person and depending on the day (what you were feeling before choosing and creating with that colour) depends if it’s primarily positive or negative meaning.

Since starting cosmiccreativebits i’ve been a huge advocator for doing art for the process not the visual outcome and feel that art is therapy when you’re going with the flow, it’s healing AND magic!

I’d quickly discovered art journalling, a way to record my thoughts, feelings and life experiences (journaling) through art. Art journaling became my safe space where I explored my mental health, mixed media and discovered junk journaling; along the way my childhood interest of Dr. Who and at the time new found spiritual interest, combined to form cosmic themed art. The name however was just a summary with cosmic & creative and the bits part? Well it was one of my favourite songs at the time. Fast forward some years and the bits part of the name is actually representative of exploring the many possibilities of the universe, visual BITS of what could potentially exist.

It’s been quite the journey since starting, I’d gotten to a point of almost healed and in 2021 my psychotic episode begun, which looking back was the destruction and death of my old self/life as I knew it. I was referred to a mental health team, had counselling whilst waiting for CBT and started medication. CBT became available for me in 2022 and I had the therapy for around 2 years. I’ve been in recovery a while and worked so unbelievably hard

…now we’re a small business, yea boiii.