Stuart Semple’s No1 Amazon Best Selling adult colouring book, My Happy Colouring Flip Book is out now.
You can get your copy from Amazon.co.uk
£1 from each copy goes to Mind, the mental health charity in England and Wales. Stuart is an ambassador for the charity and helped initiate a creative therapies fund there.
- Relax and unwind with 250 pages of fun colouring book designs by acclaimed artist Stuart Semple
- Colouring books for adults are fun & therapeutic for all ages and levels of creative ability
- It’s also a flip book – Watch your artwork spring to life by flicking through
- Take your handy pocket sized coloring book with you to colour and create on the go
- When you are done share your work online with the #HappyBook community
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Join Stuart Semple in 250 pages of compelling animated colouring in this unique flip book and support Mind, the mental health charity at the same time. Stuart’s Happy Colouring flip books harnesses the artist’s well known playful drawing style in a fun-filled experience for adults and children.
Get creative on the go by taking the handy pocket sized adult colouring book with you and enjoy the stress-busting power of art therapy wherever you are. When you are finished share your work with your friends and the Happy Colouring Flip Book community with the hastag #HappyBook.
Unlike other adult colouring books, My Happy Colouring Flip Book takes your colouring to another level with a new challenge. As a flip book, you can delve in and colour a specific symbol following it’s journey throughout the book. Or you can simply pick a page at random and colour it in it’s entirety. You can even watch your colours morph and fade over time. Why not add your own doodles to Stuart’s intricate animations, or use the reverse of the pages to make your own animated flip book drawings, notes or creative ideas.
My Happy Colouring Flip Book is also an art therapy colouring book. It’s well known adult colouring books have a positive impact upon mental wellbeing. When engaged in repetitive focused action we can experience a sense of mindfulness or meditation that might be harder to achieve in other ways. Adult colouring books have been proven to alleviate tension. Creative therapy has long been established as an effective tool in treatment of mental health issues but it’s beneficial to everyone. A recent University of San Francisco study found doing creative activities outside work has anti-stress benefits but also helps mastery, control and relaxation at work.
As a teenager studying fine art at uni Stuart Semple suffered a sudden allergic reaction and a near-death experience. He left hospital with an acute anxiety disorder from the trauma. Reaching for his art as a coping mechanism he found the healing potential of creativity. Since then, Stuart has gone on to become one of the most acclaimed contemporary artists of his generation. He has held 15 successful solo exhibitions and 40 group exhibitions internationally. This is his first adult colouring book.
In 2013 Stuart Semple received a ‘Happiness Hero’ at the UN’s first international day of happiness. Being recognised for his art performance ‘HappyCloud’ where he filled London’s skyline with thousands of pink smiling clouds from outside Tate Modern. An action he has repeated in Italy, Russia, Ireland and Australia.
One Pound from the sale of this book will be donated to Mind.
One in four people experience a mental health problem every year, many feel unable to engage with traditional counselling or talking therapies, as the process of verbally expressing experiences or emotions can feel overwhelming. The Creative Therapies Fund has made £80,000 available in the last two years to provide grants of between £1,000 and £5,000 to a broad range of projects, from choral groups to creative writing or fine art mentoring programmes. They enable service users to express themselves without having to use words, in a therapeutic environment, with a trained therapist.
You can find out more about Mind at mind.org.uk.
Click to buy your copy of Stuart Semple’s My Happy Colouring Flip book now and don’t forget to share your work with the #HappyBook community. We are really excited to see what you make!
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Mind is a registered charity number 219830