ABOUT BLOOM   

 

Bloom was created from a simple, heartfelt need, to feel less alone in the creative process. So many of us make work in isolation, caught between bursts of inspiration and stretches of self-doubt, longing for connection and encouragement. Bloom is a place to find that.

Here, we gather to share our work, our thoughts, our fears, and our triumphs, with openness, honesty, and care. Together, we hold space for one another’s growth, celebrate progress (no matter how small), and offer the accountability and friendship that keep our creative practices alive.

Bloom is a community for photographers and lens based artists, writers, curators, makers, and thinkers who believe that creativity thrives in connection. You belong here — with your unfinished projects, your big dreams, and your willingness to grow.

Let’s create, support, and bloom together. 🌼

 

 BLOOM SCHOOL is for artists who are ready to:

• Challenge their perspectives •

• Invest in their practice and their process •

• Grow alongside a community of incredible, like-minded artists •

• Nourish themselves! •

We offer five tiers of support to meet a range of budgets, capacities, and creative needs:

 

ARISE · EMERGE · BLOOM · FLOURISH · WILDFIRE

 

Each tier is designed with care, offering different levels of mentorship, critique, engagement, and access

 

Accountability is a valuable tool for growth and motivation

 

In addition to ongoing group feedback and mentoring, members of EMERGE, BLOOM, FLOURISH and WILDFIRE
gain access to the online community where discussion, support, collaboration, advice and laughs are rife!
Includes a monthly creative prompt to get your creativity flowing

 

• Gain valuable feedback on your work •

• Expand your network of like-minded photographers •
• Become an active, vital part of the Photography and Bloom School community •
• Use group sessions as a deadline to bring your creative ideas together •
• Hear fresh perspectives and inspiring ideas •
• Get to know yourself and your practice on a deeper level •
• Say goodbye to the solitary life of a photographic artist! •
• Gain early access booking and discounts for workshops and one-off events •

 

We also host online workshops including the iconic The Letting Go Workshop, as well as in-person retreats that are both inspirational and practical.Check the Workshops section above for full details

 

 

ABOUT LAURA HYND

Laura Hynd is an internationally exhibited artist, educator, mentor, workshop founder and mother. Embedded into Laura’s workshops and mentorship programmes is the philosophy that we can transform our practice, frustrations and self-limiting perspectives through the creative process.

 

"Laura's calm ability to guide and hold space is a real gift."
Emli Bendixen

 

Her intuitive, slow, sensitive and vulnerable approach to her own practice inspires her honest and effective leadership in encouraging and supporting artists’ reflective practices. Laura surrounds herself with photography and harvests a wide knowledge to support her students in her role as Supervisor to Final Major Project students for Falmouth University’s acclaimed Photography MA (online). Her experience as a Lecturer, workshop facilitator, commercial photographer, and published and exhibited artist, allows her to share her knowledge, as she believes generosity, community and support for artists is key to success.

 

“Laura is very sensitive, professional and creatively/technically talented. I find this very inspiring and a joy to be a part of.”
Sam Lindsay

 

Laura, her daughter and three cats live in a coastal village in Fife, Scotland, where they enjoy sea swims, log fires, gardening and watching films. She occasionally opens the doors of their tumbledown home for intimate, in-person workshops that continue her ethos of connection, creativity, and care.