Art Works in Mental Health - Gallery

This is a still life with which I was experimenting with oil paint. I was painting the light and colour which made the reality, as much as the forms. This was not from a photo. The view of the subject changed constantly and took me ages.

© Mrs Kathleen Wilson

It represents the personal conflict and turmoil within me. It is a mixed media imaginative composition call conflagration.

Conflagration
© James Knope

The title of the painting

© Peter Davey

Medicated Mind ! Dream Number Nine !

© Matt Flaherty

Part of my art course was a one week field trip to the Lake District to paint and draw. I was trying to capture the depth of this scene, and give a three dimensional effect.

© Anonymous

At first glance you might not know what it is - perhaps its a strange planet or a spaceship. In reality its an empty baked beans can floating in space. It is an image that appeared in my mind one day and I felt that I wanted to paint it.

Space Junk
© Roisin Begley

This is my eye. I look out of the picture at you. But of course I cant see you because this is only an image. You cant really see me because this is only a representation of my eye. Yet here we are momentarily, gazing into each others soul.

Spy
© Anthony Hammond

Represents the opening of a new 'life', until now frozen with mental illness. Currently hospitalised again, with nearly 30 years illness misdiagnosis, but finally a break through now. Spring has arrived in 2002, hopefully the flower will bloom and

The Frozen Rose
© Martin Henderson Moar

Untitled

Faces in a Crowd
© Lance Stainer

When I'm manic every scribble is a masterpiece. When I'm depressed every masterpiece is a scribble.

Cheryl
© Ged Melling

My work 'Flower Power' shows how the beauty of nature has a calming and all embracing effect on our being. Sometimes we are anxious and frightened when but unable to express this feeling. Through art we are able to convey this sensation and move on i

© Jeffrey Rolph Richards

This wallhanging was made while desperately trying to drag myself out of depression. The bottom half is closed, tight, dark and restricted, imprisoned by my own top half, light, fluffy, nice, not anxious, but free. The red on the forearm shows my s

© Christine Gray

Rain no more on my sunroof. When cloudy skies have cleared and darkness is receding let the light rays of hope shine through my sunroof so that I shall think clear and be sad no more.

© Kevin Oborne

Postnatal depression is a debilitating illness which isn't much discussed nor readily admitted to. I have suffered after the births of both my children. This photograph sums up who they are and what I feel about them. They are the joy, laughter an

Francesca and Eleni
© Beverley Short

An oil and acrylic surreal fantasy landscape with dream imagery. The work is on canvas. The works of Freud, Jung and Laing are a great inspiration in the significance and interpretation of dream imagery and subconscious archetypes. It began from a ba

© Mr Michael Robinson

I have used Alice in Wonderland as a metaphor for schizophrenia, and have taken the composition from one of Tenneils drawings to express this, raising the mundane and trying to make schizophrenia more everyday.

© Isobel Oak

This is the first time I have tried painting in this style with acrylic paint and I am quite please with it.

© WGG Wilson

Life without Colour
© Gerrard Russell

Family Group;-
Him, Her and Baby

© Margaret Cunningham

A group of us went out with cameras near the artbase and I used one of the photographs to do in charcoal.

© James Shaw

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