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Arts Well champions the role of the arts and creativity in promoting health and wellbeing

About Arts Well

Arts Well champions the role of the arts and creativity in promoting health and wellbeing. It works with organisations, large and small, to develop projects and programmes that respond to identified needs.

There’s growing evidence that participation in creative activities transforms lives – improving physical, mental, social and emotional health.

With extensive knowledge of the arts and health sector and with experience of working at both strategic and practical levels, Arts Well develops projects and programmes, taking an outcomes-based approach and using co-production models in the development of its work.

Who We Are

Jayne Howard

Founder and Managing Director

Jayne has extensive experience of working in arts and health: she was Director of the national-award winning Arts for Health Cornwall for 11 years, during which time it delivered a wide range of programmes and had far-reaching impact on individuals, organisations and communities and received the Arts and Health South West Outstanding Individual Contribution to arts and health in 2016.

Her belief in the power of creativity and the arts to transform wellbeing in communities and individuals is grounded in a career in education and the NHS, including as a Director of Public Health for Central Cornwall; over 15 years of initiating, advising and collaborating on arts-based health projects in Cornwall; and a passion for the arts and the power of partnerships.

Alongside her role with Arts Well she is Programme Manager at the National Centre for Creative Health, where her main role is to seek to embed creative health in health and care systems across England.

She is a qualified teacher, workplace coach and mentor, action learning facilitator and has postgraduate qualifications in art and design history, English literature and professional writing.

Her job roles have been characterised by an emphasis on partnership working and collaborations to improve the experiences of individuals and communities and to tackle social injustice and inequalities. She has wide experience on many Boards, including being Chair of Arts and Health South West for five years, Chair of Volunteer Cornwall and Chair of Healthwatch Cornwall.

She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Artists and an Associate of the Royal Society of Public Health.

Vicki Bampfield-Hammond

Programme Coordinator

Vicki has over 20 years’ experience delivering creative workshops throughout Cornwall. She has worked with children, young people, and adults in community group settings, through organisastions and care providers as well as working with privately referred individuals.

She is passionate about the arts, believing that everyone holds the key to their owncreativity, and with that the ability to live a richer life that improves health and wellbeing.

She works part time for Arts Well as programme coordinator.
‘I find the busy schedule of projects, programmes and events a varied and inspiringworkload that perfectly balances my own floral design business - the Woodland Atelier - and creative work life’.

She has a degree in textiles and fashion and a further and adult education teacher’s certificate.

Jane Moss

Director

Jane Moss is a writer and facilitator of creative writing and writing for wellbeing. She returned home to Cornwall in 2013, where she co-hosts The Writing Retreat (www.thewritingretreat.co.uk) and runs community writing groups. From November 2025 she will co-chair the National Association of Writers in Education.
Jane completed her doctorate at Falmouth University in 2024, having researched the viability of the novel as a vehicle for community participation. The resulting ‘community novel’, Trevow, is available on Amazon. She teaches a Special Study Unit about creative journaling as part of the Peninsular Medical School’s medical humanities curriculum.
Before returning to Cornwall, Jane was a Communications Director at Arts Council England (to 2003), and Communications Advisor to the Community Empowerment policy units at the Home Office and the Department for Communities and Local Government (to 2008).
She has a special interest in writing as part of bereavement support and has previously worked and volunteered with hospices and bereavement services including Princess Alice Hospice and Cruse Bereavement Care UK. Her book, Writing in Bereavement, A Creative Handbook is published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers (2012).

To find out more about Jane visit www.janemoss.com

John Howard

Director

John is a fine art printmaker and has been self-employed for most of his working life. He opened a printmaking studio in Penryn in 2006 in an iconic eco-building, offering courses, workshops and open access to other printmakers as well as making his own work. He worked in industry in the Midlands for several years before studying Fine Art at Birmingham City University, where he graduated with a first-class honours degree in 1989. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE) in 1995 and a Member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (RBSA) in 1996, where he is now an Honorary Fellow.

John moved to Cornwall in 1995 for greater personal and professional fulfilment and has been an Associate Lecturer at Falmouth University since 1996, as well as visiting lecturer at other academic institutions across the country. He has run several community workshops for groups including young people in care, people being supported by homelessness charities and carers. He believes that the arts – including music, performance, crafts and many others – are fundamental to our wellbeing and has seen how the opportunity to engage in a creative process can lift the spirits, increase confidence and improve learning skills.

To see John's work visit www.johnhowardprintmaker.com and to find out about his studios see www.johnhowardprintstudios.com

What We Do

Arts Well offer a range of services aimed at improving health and wellbeing of individuals, groups and communities

  • Activities & Programmes

  • Training & Resources

  • Consultation & Evaluation

  • Advice

  • Partnerships, Networking & Events

Learn More About What Arts Well Does

Aims of the Organisation

Collaborate on Creative Health Projects

To work in collaboration with other organisations to deliver creative projects which improve the health and wellbeing of people living in the communities of Cornwall.

Support the Creative Health and Wellbeing Partnership

To bring specialist creative health knowledge and expertise to the development and growth of the Creative Health and Wellbeing Partnership for Cornwall and Isles of Scilly.

Advocate for Creative Health 

To champion and promote the value of arts, culture, and creativity in health and wellbeing to stakeholders, policymakers, and the wider public.

Provide Networking and Professional Development

To build and maintain a strong network for arts, health, and wellbeing practitioners by providing opportunities for knowledge exchange, training, and collaboration.

Strengthen Sector Confidence and Capacity

To empower practitioners, organisations, and partners with the evidence, skills, and support they need to confidently demonstrate the impact of creativity on health and wellbeing.

Values

  • Addressing inequality and ensuring inclusivity
  • Harnessing the power of creativity
  • Collaborating and sharing knowledge to maximise benefit
  • Championing the role of the arts and creativity in promoting health and wellbeing
  • Ensuring sustainability in our work

Partners, Collaborators & Funders

Arts Well has received funding from the following sources