Our Director Jole Bortoli, is the director and founder of Art to Heart. She has extensive experience in working with children and with adults who work with children through the arts.

Jole has led pioneering visual art workshops in The Ark, a cultural centre for children, and she has art-directed the interior design of children-centred spaces such as the A&E Department in Temple Street Children's Hospital and the office for the Ombudsman for Children. She is a guest-lecturer in the National College of Art and Design for the Hdip in Community, Arts and Education.

Jole is currently working in Dublin and the Burren, Co. Clare and every week she leads workshops for children and for adults.

In Dublin she regularly works with the Ark as artist-facilitator in visual art programmes and with the Sanctuary, a spirituality Centre in the heart of Dublin city, where she is a facilitator in their Youth Programme.

From 2006 to 2009 she has been the artist in residence in Larkin Community College as part of the Learning Through Arts Programme.

In the Burren, Co. Clare she runs workshops every fortnight and every summer she holds several weeks of training in her workshop.

Jole is a board member of Public Communications Centre, a strategic marketing, campaigning and fundraising agency for non-profit organizations and causes.