Michael Eldridge is a painter and photographer. In the 80s and 90s he was Director of Photography at The Arts University of Bournemouth. He has lived in Africa, New Zealand and California where he was a Fulbright Scholar and currently lives in Le Marche, Italy.
He has lectured in the States where he ran creativity workshops, and has given talks at the San Francisco Art Institute and at the Society for Photographic Education in Carmel California. He has led workshops on Open University Summer Schools and ran The Sorgente Centre in Tuscany.
During the pandemic he initiated an online art programme backed up with webinars. He is a continual mentor for folks who feel locked out of life and who have the need to express themselves creatively. He is a CTI trained coach, specializing in creativity.
He collaborates with Lorenzo Viscidi on their Red and Blue Art Factory project and with Stephen Bray on their ongoing photography project Trees and Sky.
He was the focus speaker on creativity at the 2014 Global Conference of the ICF (international coaching federation) at Malmo in Sweden.
He is also a speaker on various podcasts about the art and the creative mind and he runs creativity, sound and sense retreats in the heart of The Sibillini Mountains in Italy.
Michael Eldridge is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts.