My work looks at the relationship between Art, Mental Health and Physical illness, Artists over the years have used the state of their mental and physical health as an outlet of creation and therapy.
The area which has given me inspiration for this project are the distortion portraits of various artists past and present and the visualisation of pain in the body which often cannot be seen, only felt.
There is much stigma around anxiety, depression and mental related illnesses and many artists used art in a positive way to relieve their pain and stress.
These series of paintings were influenced by people currently suffering mentally and physically. One case study was working with MS suffers,  a young woman explained it was like  from pleasure to pain, to pain to pleasure, pain in the body which we cannot see and the pleasure we desperately need to escape from.
My purpose is to produce a series of paintings to demonstrate a true state of what an individual experiences through pain and suffering as well as gaining an understanding through my own experiences.

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