Hi Friends!

Here's a quick update, as I'm currently looking for new collaborators and commissions.

Maybe that's YOU?

Much of my work has been alongside charities, community organisations, and purpose-driven projects. The aim is always the same: to represent people honestly, with care and respect, and to create media that doesn’t just look good, but actually connects.

If you’re part of an organisation, business, or project and you think there might be a story we can tell together, I’d genuinely love to hear from you. No hard sell. Just a conversation to see what’s possible.

Jerome

Email: [email protected]

Web article, with social media links: https://thepictureposter.co.uk/portraits/want-to-collaborate/

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Angela Peake’s journey into coaching is rooted in lived experience, resilience and a deep understanding of the pressures within healthcare.

In this candid conversation, she reflects on an early diagnosis of kidney disease that reshaped her ambitions, leading her into a nursing career she “loved from day one”.

Angela shares frontline insights from years in medical wards and research, highlighting both the rewards of patient care and the growing strain caused by systemic pressures. A turning point came when her own health challenges intensified - dialysis, two transplants, and raising a premature son - forcing her to step back and reassess her path.

The pandemic became a catalyst for change. While shielding as clinically vulnerable, Angela discovered coaching and began retraining, eventually founding AMP Coaching & Consulting Ltd. Her work now focuses on supporting healthcare professionals and individuals living with long-term conditions, with an emphasis on preventing burnout and recognising early warning signs such as frustration, emotional exhaustion and loss of focus.

She speaks openly about “losing joy” as a common thread among clients, and explains how her approach - grounded in trust, confidentiality and self-awareness - helps people reconnect with what matters. From small daily gratitudes to deeper behavioural change, Angela’s work bridges personal transformation and wider systems thinking.

Ultimately, success for Angela is about impact: helping others rediscover purpose, improve relationships and realise that change is possible - at any stage of life.

Contact Angela:

Email: [email protected]

Mobile: 07359 917844

LinkedIn: AMP Coaching & Consulting Ltd

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I grabbed 5 minutes with artist Mark Edmonds, in his studio at ACAVA Spodeworks Stoke.

Instagram: @markedmondsart

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I called in to Stoke Minster - a Place of Welcome - across Thursday lunchtime. I wanted to catch up with a little group who've been meeting together as new friends to get crafting.

They're making a woolly postbox 'topper' to celebrate Mothering Sunday in mid March.

Heather, and members of the group, told me what they've been up to.

The Minster is open every Thursday lunchtime, 12 noon to 2pm, and you're very welcome to call in for a brew, to take a look round, to chat, or even to sit and ponder - crafting's not obligatory!

Jerome

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Host: Jerome Whittingham

A short reflection on the simplicity of pinhole photography, and making art without having to try too hard.

See the photograph and read more on The Picture Poster website: https://thepictureposter.co.uk/nature/theres-beauty-in-not-trying-too-hard/

Thanks to artist Amy Davis for the motivation.

Jerome

MUSIC: by Black Box on Pixabay

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Host: Jerome Whittingham

Artist Amy Davis is on a quest to help people embrace wonkiness and imperfection in their creative pursuits.

She’s recently been using some mini potters wheels, and making tiny wonky pots. She explains how these ‘toy’ potters wheels are helping her and others to learn to play with clay again, building creative confidence.

"It’s about celebrating imperfection and all that it’s about. Your creativity doesn’t haver to be perfect, because the moment things become too perfect or people overthink their creative process, that’s when people tend to step away. And I think a lot of the time it’s education, when we were younger, that makes us think that creativity is a scary thing. When in actual fact, if more people were able to embrace the joys of creativity for what it is, rather than perfectionism, I feel that’s when people will get more out of the process," says Amy Davis.

Amy’s now looking to extend her Wonky Pot Initiative, and is looking to partner with venues and organisations in North Staffordshire to help her bring the fun of wonky creativity to more people.

Interested?

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https://www.instagram.com/alouartist/

https://www.instagram.com/thewpi/

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Anarchy Is Her Birthright, a group exhibition curated by April Star Davis, brings together women and non-binary artists to explore 'resistance, care, survival and feminist refusal, shaped by lived experience and place'.

Presented at ACAVA Spode Works in Stoke, 'Anarchy Is Her Birthright' follows April's residency at ACAVA, awarded as a prize after her success in the Three Counties Open Art exhibition at Burslem School of Art in 2024.

Instagram: @april_star_davis_

Anarchy Is Her Birthright

PREVIEW: 5.30pm, Friday 20th February, ACAVA Spode Works, Stoke, Elenora Street, ST4 1QQ. The exhibition then continues to 1st March.

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Designer and creative thinker Megan Fitzoliver is co-ordinating a celebration of North Staffordshire's creative and caring individuals, groups, and industries.

The Festival of Hands will take place across Stoke-on-Trent and beyond, 1st to 14th June.

She's looking for expressions of interest from anyone that wants to get involved.

We sat in Spode Rose Garden in Stoke, enjoying a coffee from the Bluebird cafe, chatting about the festival and its themes.

Get in touch with Megan at:

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A website will be going live soon too.

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We meet Yuliia Holovatiuk-Ungureanu, one of two Ukrainian artists currently exhibiting 'On The Edge' at the University of Staffordshire in Stoke-on-Trent.

Yuliia talks us through the themes of the exhibition, co-produced with fellow Ukrainian artist and friend Olha Barvynka.

The exhibition explores 'transformation in response to a world shaped by crisis.'

One part of the mixed media exhibition, Yuliia's ceramic bricks, have attracted unwelcome and upsetting attention from a small number of visitors to the Henrion Gallery space - a thoroughfare used by students and visitors to the university. Yuliia updates us about what has been happening.

UPDATE: since recording yesterday morning, the artists’ exhibition in the Henrion Gallery at University of Staffordshire has suffered more vandalism, including the breaking of several of Yuliia’s ceramic bricks. We’ve welcomed both Ukrainian artists into our city to give them safety and a home. They’ve responded in gratitude by giving us incredibly poignant art, adding greatly to our local arts scene. It’s shocking to think that a small number of visitors to the gallery would act in such a vile way to our friends. I hope the police and university exercise their fullest powers in bringing the perpetrators to account.

The exhibition has now had its run extended to 6th March.

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I set myself a deceptively simple challenge: to spend a single summer’s day photographing as many species of bumblebee as possible.

What unfolded was less a straightforward wildlife hunt and more an eye-opening exploration of how our landscapes, natural and urban, shape the lives of pollinators.

And, 11 miles walked!

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