CREATIVE CIRCLES
Sophie Buchaillard is a multi-disciplinary artist, writer, and counsellor whose work centres on creativity as a tool for connection, resilience, and change. She designs and leads creative circles that weave together writing, making, and ecological practices, offering participants grounding in their local environment and a space to reimagine personal and collective narratives.
Her facilitation is rooted in a belief in the power of collaborative storytelling—to rewrite limiting scripts, strengthen communities, and nurture a more sustainable relationship with nature. From documenting the journey of food from seed to table, to guiding freeform poetry, painting, zine-making or clay work, Sophie’s practice embraces creativity as a holistic well-being tool.
Alongside her community work, she is the author of two novels, a poetry collection, and numerous essays. She collaborates with artists and activists to “vision Tomorrow” through conversations and co-created projects that place care, imagination, and belonging at their centre.
Currently, Sophie runs a monthly writing circle in Penarth Library (see calendar).
From September she will be holding space for a weekly Morning Pages and Breath-work meet up in Penarth Library (see calendar). This one is a drop in so no need to book.
From November, I will be running a series of new projects across the Vale of Glamorgan and I am looking for women artists and makers based in the Vale for a collaboration around women, land and the arts. If this is you, get in touch.
She is also available for commissions.
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Passed partnerships
Get in touch and look at Literature Wales Inspiring Communities Fund if you need help with funding your idea.
A few examples of past partnerships:
In 2024, I partnered with the MakerSpace and Penarth Library to deliver writing workshops inviting women to explore their experience of the menopause in an inclusive space; with Creative Cardiff to deliver a Travel Writing Masterclass looking at reinventing the genre for the 21st century; with Reclaim the Frame and Chapter Arts Centre to explore the impact of climate change on small communities, through shared conversations and writing prompts, in response to a viewing of the film Banel & Adama by director Ramata-Toulaye Sy.
In 2023, I partnered with Literature Wales and Penarth Library Makerspace to deliver a series of workshops on Writing Parenthood, and give new parents the tools to co-produce a collection of zines (DIY magazines) in which participants collated their individual and collective responses in images and words (Based on an original idea by Harriet Bradshaw); with Reclaim the Frame and Chapter Arts Centre to explore cultural identity/ dual heritage / multi-identities / language and what happens when we reconnect to a past heritage, through shared conversations and writing prompts, in response to a viewing of the film Past Lives by Celine Song; and with the National Museum Wales (Cardiff) and Cardiff University’s research group Image Works, to deliver a workshop on imagined and introspective travels, in response to the exhibition Sea Horizon/Môrwelion by the artist Gary Fabian Miller.
