About me
Lorna Carmen McNeill
Lorna Carmen McNeill is a multidisciplinary artist, teacher, and workshop facilitator based in Winchester UK, where she lives with her husband and dog. Surrounded and inspired by natural beauty, she creates immersive works that weave together light, colour, texture and movement —inviting viewers/participants to reconnect with creativity and joy.
Lorna’s practice has evolved from large-scale light installations into more intimate mixed-media shrine and sanctuary pieces—personal spaces for healing, reflection, and creative renewal. These smaller works carry the same essence of transformation that defined her earlier installations, offering moments of calm and inspiration for the home or workplace.
With extensive experience as a clinical nutritionist and health behaviour change specialist—working in a psychology research unit at the Institute of Psychiatry and University College London, and later within the NHS, education, and mental health sectors— Lorna brings a deep, evidence-based as well as experiential understanding of how creativity can support personal growth and well-being. She works with creative inspiration to help people open new pathways of possibility, facilitating personal development as well as the creation of unique, authentic artwork.
Lorna’s work has been widely exhibited and supported through Arts Council grants and other awards. Through community projects and workshops, she brings light and colour into shared spaces, creating experiences that nurture belonging, joy, and purpose.
Supported in 2015, 2016, 2018 by www.artscouncil.org.uk
Artists’ statement
My practice—spanning painting, mixed media, sculpture, and light-based installations—seeks to bring inspiration to life and connect people with their own creativity. Through my workshops, I invite participants to free their creativity and ignite artistic expression through play, experimentation, and presence.
At the heart of my work is an invitation to shift from thinking to feeling to creating — a journey from the mind into the heart and through the hands. I guide people to reconnect with their innate creativity and discover the joy of authentic expression. Through colour, light, and sensory exploration, inspiration takes tangible form. My approach encourages presence, curiosity, and freedom — opening a space where creativity flows effortlessly and meaningfully. From this embodied place, creation becomes not just an act of making, but a way of being — vibrant, intuitive, and alive.
Through immersive, multisensory experiences and collaborative workshops, I weave together visual art, movement, sound, and digital media to create spaces for reflection, play, and transformation.
Rooted in a background in health, behaviour change, and creative facilitation, my work explores the meeting point of art, well-being, awareness and psychology as pathways to healing, peace, and connection.
Each piece becomes a spark—a torch lighting the way toward deeper awareness and shared inspiration, reminding us of our collective capacity for creativity, compassion, and change.
I aim to create inclusive, nurturing environments that value curiosity over perfection and process over product — spaces where art becomes both personally restorative and socially connective, allowing participants to rediscover fun, joy, meaning, and belonging through the creative process.
Responses to Lorna’s teaching
“Lorna is a fantastic facilitator-teacher who skilfully provided sufficient structure while providing space for each person to follow their interests and further their explorations in a group setting. Wonderful Unlocking Creativity courses – Each time I attended, I emerged feeling more resourceful and as a result, many things unlocked during the course and long after each course ended.
An immediate outcome was the completion of a piece of writing for a journal that had been stuck for over a month- it took 2 days- the article almost wrote itself. I recognise now how core creativity is to me…. this realisation has given me the final impetus to stand more fully in a creative and artistic space that I actually love being in!”
Amy Barnes, Corporate Consultant, Facilitator, Mentor
Responses to Lorna’s Work
“Beautiful – not enough beauty in art.”
Suzie Zamit
Sculptor, London
“A truly uplifting and inspirational experience.”
Jean Bicknell
London
“I feel comforted, soothed, cooled – to me this work is futuristic and visionary – the process of heating and surrendering form ready for transformation – inspiring and hopeful.”
Jane Moore
London
“Mesmerisingly beautiful. When I feel I need uplifting, I put on my headphones and watch the two-minute video I made of your work and feel energised. It’s amazing!”
Shirley-Ann Dixon
Artist, London