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Camp Creative has helped Pauline Douce recover from the grief of losing her daughter.
In 2002 a counsellor recommended she pursue a creative outlet for the emotions she was feeling and handed her a flyer for Bellingen’s annual five-day Camp Creative.
“I have been coming ever since and I’ve healed so much.
“I’ve gone from black to pale pink,” she says, proudly showing her latest brightly-coloured work created within the Watercolour for Everyone course led by Terry Jarvis.
“Grief and loss can get inside your soul but being creative takes that grief out from inside so it doesn’t eat you up. But by being creative you get that stuff out from inside...out on the paper.”
Pauline is from Springbrook in the Gold Coast hinterland.
People come from all over Australia (and the world, with a French pilot returning this year) to attend the five-day camp which has visual arts, crafts, dance, music, voice and writing courses for adults and children.
Watch videos of Camp Creative drummers in the main street of Bellingen:
Janine Watson
Group digital journalist for the NSW Mid North Coast covering Forster to Bellingen, Wauchope and beyond.
Group digital journalist for the NSW Mid North Coast covering Forster to Bellingen, Wauchope and beyond.
