Inspiring you to create

Creative Haven leader Margaret Soraya

We enable you to take time and space for your creative practice whether that be photography, writing, painting, drawing or any other artistic expression.

We encourage you to allow yourself to be creative
and become part of a community that supports you in discovering and exploring your unique creative path.

Which is right for you?

Creative Haven Membership

Monthly membership

Be part of a warm, creative community, with monthly projects and live zoom sessions with Margaret. You'll have access to the Creative Haven library of lessons, cheat sheets and video guides. Learn and be inspired every month with your new, welcoming circle.

Standalone courses

Want to learn specific skills from an expert with patience and kindness? You'll want to sign up for Margaret's online lessons which include Camera Basics, Intimate Landscapes. Everything from DSLR tech to raising your photography profile is on offer.

Your Facilitators

Margaret Soraya 

 Margaret specialises in encouraging and inspiring others in a genuine way.
She loves most of all inspiring others and encouraging people to be creative. She teaches others to find their voice and live in line with their core values.

Carien Borst 

Carien is a visual artist and mainly makes intuitive oil paintings and 'soul landscapes'. She finds inspiration for her paintings in being outdoors, immersing herself in silence and preferably by the sea or ocean. After a career in mental health management, and an art therapist, she chose a new path to follow her heart. 

Lesley Lintott

Lesley is an artist and educator. Specialising in creating impressionistic and abstract work using her smartphone or mixed-media sketching. Having previously worked as a vet and then a person-centred counsellor she is now enjoying sharing her love for nature and being creative in a way that supports and inspires others.

Creative Haven Membership

Inspiration - Learning - Community 

Creative Haven membership is an inclusive, supportive and active online community of creatives. Whether you're an avid photographer, new painter or want to develop a writing practice, you'll feel at home.

Each month has a new theme, and leader Margaret shares fresh tutorials, workbooks and anything else you need to work on that months topic in your own way. The themes are designed to inspire and be a springboard for your own interpretation.  

The Creative Haven membership was created after participants in Margaret's online courses were excited at how inspired they felt and wanted to keep that excitement going.


Your membership includes

  • Monthly 'live' zoom meet up with Margaret or another creative professional
  • Monthly theme & project with worksheet
  • Live sessions recorded & added to the online membership area so you can watch later
  • Foundational camera lessons to get you off on the right foot
  • Sunday Shares - an opportunity to share your work from the week with the rest of the group.
  • Ask questions and get support in the facebook group 
  • Joy and inspiration around you
  • Q&A sessions to ask your questions
  • Screen and video tutorials

So supportive and inspiring. I'm learning loads and trying out new approaches to photography. Margaret is warm, approachable and knowledgeable. 

Di Collins

Creative Haven member

I love Margaret's enthusiasm for life and her art. Her empathy, kindness and generosity is extraordinary. I feel like Margaret is a friend, even though we have only met online. I look forward to the day we can all travel again, so that I do one of the workshops in Scotland.

Claire Filson

Creative Haven member

Online photography courses

Choose from a series of live Zoom video calls with Margaret and other course members or online courses, where you can learn at your own pace with videos, workbooks and cheat sheets taking you every step of the way. 

Still not sure on a course or membership?

Email Margaret with your thoughts, so she can give you her feedback.

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