Hi, I’m Tash: artist, creativity coach, and founder of Bad Art Group.

But it hasn’t always been that way. I started out as a mechanic — the kind who’d spend the day covered in grease and the night drowning out a restless mind with alcohol, food, and discipline disguised as “self-improvement.” I was efficient, relentless, and completely disconnected from myself (not that I knew as much). Eventually, that survival system collapsed — and what followed was a slow, messy process of rebuilding from the inside out.

That’s where art found me. Not the kind you hang in galleries — the kind that drips, scribbles, and accidentally tells the truth. I wasn’t trying to be an artist; I was trying to remember how to feel human again.

Through that process, I realised that creativity isn’t about talent or aesthetics — it’s about aliveness. It’s the nervous system remembering how to play, how to make decisions, how to move forward without knowing the outcome. Naturally I moved on to studying art therapy which helped me make sense of it all. But what I bring to people now isn’t therapy — it’s a grounded, accessible way to experience that same reconnection through doing, not overthinking.

Bad Art Group exists to give people a taste of that aliveness — to remind teams, communities, and individuals what it feels like to be curious, spontaneous, and imperfect together. Because bad art makes good humans — and creativity isn’t a luxury reserved just for artists; it’s a basic human function. Once you feel it again, you remember that you’ve had it all along.