Art Works in Mental Health - Gallery

Within 12 years in mental health, I managed to capture something that does not belong to me but it belongs to others e.g.. model girls smiling, droplets of water captured in macro lens, landscape of England, Lake District, landscape within hot weathe

© Anonymous

I painted this piece of glass as part of my Cities & Guilds exam in signwriting. The exam was taken at Park Corner Vocational Services which is part of the Sandwell Mental Health Group.

Dragonfly
© Edward Waldron

I've been very interested in myth and legends for a long time. I got the idea from a statuette I have at home.

© David Merritt

This painting of a Kiwi Fruit is true to life. This is brought into being by a palette knife.

© Anonymous

Canal of Venice

© Patricia Hughes

Vortex : The endless movement of confusion and panic swirling through calmness and peace of life and space.

Vortex
© Maureen Ann Cocksedge

© Deborah Muir (Sumea)

This headpiece was inspired by the plump and fleshy leaves of the succulent variety of cacti. I inflated textures 'pillows' of clay to replicate what I saw and arranged them in a rosette pattern to re-create the form I was attracted to.

© Annie Tortora

Colours and shapes that I saw in my mind.

© Dennis Batten

I did it whilst detained under the Mental Health Act. My son was in care and I wasn't able to visit him at this time. We used to go to Ringwood Owl Sanctuary and he enjoyed flying the owls. Also owls symbolise wisdom.

© Evelyn Twyford

I have enjoyed painting for about thirty years - I find it relaxing - glass painting is a new medium to me. I have painted four copies of Van Gogh's paintings on the decanter.
They are 1) Self portrait, 2) Place du Forum, 3) Sunflowers, 4) Church a

© Kevin L Kitchen

This piece I titled Moonshine across a lovely beach. I painted using acrylics on board, I have built up this scene using many layers which has added both texture and depth. I use this technique in many of my paintings.

Moon Shine across a lovely
© Anonymous

My glass mosaic depicts a scene of a hot-air-balloon rising from the ground, passing a church below.

© Simon Stephens

A watercolour scene

© Stephen H Smith

Untitled

Black Disc, Blue Disc
© Ian Michael Smith

This photograph was taken at Sheffield Park East Grinstead Sussex

© Simon Andrew Worster

© Anonymous

Untitled

Life goes on
© James Campbell

Child's Christening robe.
Toned black and white photograph. The empty dress as a metaphor for 'loss'.
Loss of innocence, direction, purity. A baptism of fire, disquiet awaits me each time I am invaded, each covert seam unpicked.

© Lesley Bricknell

Ten fish.

© Martin Robinson

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