Simonetta is a multidisciplinary artist and performer from Slovakia, now based in London. Her work spans acting, writing, and visual art, often exploring themes of trauma, mental health, and invisible disabilities.

Her project Health is a Privilege began as a short film based on her lived experience. After winning an award at Warwick Film Festival, the film sparked widespread interest and conversations around the hidden struggles many face. This led Simonetta to expand the story into a full-length theatre play, using performance and creativity to deepen the emotional impact and open space for collective reflection.

Through raw honesty and symbolic expression, Simonetta’s work gives voice to stories often left in the dark. Whether through painting, poetry, or performance, she is driven by a need to tell the truth—especially the kind that’s hard to hear but necessary to feel.

An initial, solitary transgression culminates in a suicide leaving a young girl attempting to come to terms with her father’s final rejection of her. 

Butterflies questions who is the actual perpetrator, who is the abused?

S-bars is a queer poet, writer, actor, and movement artist from the UK. Their work is all about being real—funny, raw, and deeply relatable. Drawing from their own lived experience, S-bars creates pieces that speak to the heart, blending humor with moments of vulnerability. Whether through words or movement, they invite others to connect, laugh, and reflect on what it means to be human.

Humaira Chuhan aka Humus creates art of both written and visual expression. She dips her brush into the art of poetry, singing, digital art, and martial arts. 

She started her spoken word journey after the coronavirus lockdown when she faced disownment from her family and channelled her emotions through her poetry.

Her poetry captures the nuances of life’s journey, from the joys of love to the ache of loss. With a relatable writing style, she crafts verses that find a home in the hearts of her audience. One of her popular pieces, “I Like A Man,” a playful yet real exploration of love and desire, has garnered over 3M views, illustrating the universality of her themes and the power of her words.

Merging poetry and digital art, she crafts custom garments for the spoken word community translating the thoughts of poets and artists into visual stories that leave a lasting impression.

Tamar is an opera and cabaret singer, actor, choir conductor, and visual artist. Her work interweaves bodypainting, choral singing, prop-making, and literature to create audiovisual narratives that blur the line between an art gallery and a concert hall.

After completing her Master’s in Voice Studies at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and as an avid believer in the power of choirs to bring people together, Tamar founded the Goodenough Choir, where she served as musical director and voice coach for five years, curating interdisciplinary concerts and cabarets.

She later completed a performance-based PhD at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance where she explored the silencing of the female voice through the lens of gender stereotypes and mental health. As part of her research, Tamar developed a language that fuses bodypainting with her singing and expended her storytelling from the digital sphere into live performances, among which her solo exhibition Serenade on Skin at the Crypt Gallery, and her one-woman show Ophelia’s Resurrection and Bi-Gendered Cabaret, showcased at the Bloomsbury Festival, London.

Poems Exploring the Issues of Domestic Violence 

Gi Dhanoa has been writing poetry since she was 11 years old, scribbling poems at the back of her maths books in high school. As a child Gi was a very creative young lady, through her words. English Literature was her favourite subject, as it gave her the freedom of interpretation of text and dialogue. This would then allow her to develop her own style. This love continued throughout Gi’s adult life and proved essential during the need for an expressive outlet, whilst experiencing volatile relationships. She endured both violent and mental abuse for many years silently. Gi takes the readers through a journey of her own experiences and creatively places herself in others’ stories bringing a dynamic view of what domestic violence and mental abuse means to both men and women. “Let my words give you courage and hope. There is so much to gain from speaking up and sharing what you have been subjected to, in order to support others who may need your wisdom to set themselves free” G.D.

Support Gi by buying a copy of:

FFS – Forgiven Forgotten Sooooo by Gi Dhanoa

Daniela Cezara Nikola is a London-based artist and educator whose work bridges the classical oil painting techniques of the Old Masters with a contemporary and intuitive expression. Her paintings breathe with emotion, memory and depth, each brushstroke alive with unseen energies. Rooted in a deep reverence for tradition yet guided by instinct, her practice transforms personal experience into universal reflection.

Blending poetry and painting as two forms of the same language, Nikola creates emotional landscapes where silence speaks and colour vibrates. She approaches painting as silent poetry and poetry as painting with sound, inviting viewers into a space where feeling takes precedence over form. Her work offers an intimate exploration of the human soul, revealing grief, love, longing and hope as timeless and shared experiences.

Linda Haysman is an established Costume Designer working across Feature Films, High End TV in Drama, Comedy, Childrens, and Documentary.  Her portfolio includes projects for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky, Netflix, and Amazon. Linda trained as a Theatre Designer and after finishing her degree worked in fringe theatre for a little while before joining the BBC Costume Department. She worked firstly as a Designer’s Assistant, and then as a Designer covering a whole range of programmes from the BBC’s output.

 She has designed costumes for period shows, contemporary single dramas, and drama series such as Riches, MacDonald and Dodds, and has also worked on many comedies and comedy dramas. Her latest work has been designing for the popular detective drama series, Death in Paradise.

Lucas Ross is an artist who doesn’t exist

Helen Sabin of Nibas Art is a self-taught artist mainly dealing in bright and fluorescent colours whose abstract landscapes are an expression of her joyful and energetic attitude. Helen has ADD and art is her main form of expression and her work features in prestigious John Jacobs Studio.

Satvir is a senior designer who loves art and illustration. She enjoys drawing from life and reference when capturing her representation of the moment or person. For her, art can allow for self-expression through her choice of lines, mark-making and colours. She has exhibited at the Urban Sketchers London Exhibition 2025. Satvir also volunteers for HFEH Mind as a graphic designer.

Susie Heyes is an artist specialising in watercolour, in particular, landscapes and wildlife. She produces original paintings and more affordable prints. Many of her more recent artworks are of minimalist landscapes using a limited palette to dramatise the atmosphere of a place. Susie has painted many local places within Ealing and more recently has been painting further afield in London such as Chiswick, Ruislip, Richmond Park and Bushy Park. Many of these paintings are available as more affordable prints.

All my artwork has been beneficial to my well-being in some aspect. It has made me more mindful, observing and appreciating the world around me more closely, whilst I look for inspiration for what I can create next. The act of creating enables me to focus my mind and helps distract me from negative thoughts.

10% profit of all Susie’s sales go directly to HFEH Mind to support our front line services.