Artwork created by children in counselling sessions or wellbeing support groups at Havens Hospices will be featured in the Leigh Art Trail in The Living Room, Leigh Road, SS9 1JE, on the 5th and 6th July from 10am to 4pm.
The art exhibition ‘Do you see me?’ will feature multiple pieces of beautiful artwork that has been created in one-to-one counselling sessions and wellbeing support groups at Havens Hospices. The artwork will explore their experiences of living and caring for someone they love who has an incurable condition, or the impact of having complex conditions themselves.
The Children and Young People’s Wellbeing Team at Little Havens find many youngsters who have experienced the death of a sibling, parent, grandparent or anyone special to them often feel invisible, trying to process feelings that even adults don’t fully understand. Art and creative therapy are valuable tools to help children express thoughts and feelings that can be too hard to verbalise. Creative techniques like painting, drawing and poetry open up conversations with children and often evoke memories of their loved ones who have died.
Katherine Barrett, a Children’s and Young Person Counsellor at the charity, says, “It is an incredible opportunity to showcase the amazing work of our young people and to raise awareness in the local community about views and experiences of complex conditions, loss and grief for young people, which can often be overlooked.”
Little Havens provides specialist care and support for babies, children, and young people in Essex and the surrounding boroughs who live with complex or incurable conditions.
The free exhibition will be held in The Living Room, Leigh Road, SS9 1JE, on the 5th and 6th July from 10am to 4pm.
Published on 3rd July 2025
