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Art as a Response to Mental Health 2026
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Through Her Watching Eyes
Donna Mindart
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Length (cm)
60
Width (cm)
42
Location
UK
Medium
Pen and Paper
Selling Price
£495
This work explores the mental weight of being seen before feeling ready to be known. As new paths opened, they brought both opportunity and pressure- a demand to move forward despite limitations. The stairways reflect progress shaped by physical barriers, while the many eyes represent the constant feeling of observation, judgement and self-awareness. Through layered forms, hidden doors and shifting structures, the piece becomes a map of an overwhelmed mind- one trying to navigate change, expectation and identity through eyes that never feel unwatched.
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She took root in silence
Donna Mindart
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Length (cm)
42
Width (cm)
60
Location
scarborough
Medium
Mixed ink and pen, paper
Selling Price
£595
As with all my work, a hidden washing mashing motif is woven into the composition- a personal metaphor for the mind. The cycles of spinning, rinsing, and overloading speak to the repetitive churn of anxious thoughts and emotional turbulence. It's a symbol of how we try to contain chaos, often behind closed doors.
This piece is both a release and a response - a way to visualise what words cannot often hold. In creating it, I invite the viewers to confront the tangled, often haunting nature of mental health and to notice what lies beneath the surface.
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Riptide
Emily Davidson
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Length (cm)
122
Width (cm)
122
Location
Hartlepool
Medium
Acrylic on Mdf
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My work is based around the chaos of what can't be seen in the world through process art. I take a whole painting and cut out the area that would usually be focused onto present the idea of something feeling off within the work. Within my own experience I used the works as an outlet to deal with the emotions that I was feeling while painting. I have struggled with mental health for many years now and my outlet has always been my painting.
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Animal world map
The Wonky Artist (Rachel Smith-Ruffle)
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Length (cm)
A3
Width (cm)
A3
Location
Manchester, UK
Medium
Watercolour
Selling Price
Original £500
All my work relates to mental health, especially my early pieces as I was on permanent bedrest at the time.
Self taught artist, full time wheelchair user. In 2018 I had to be on 15 months medical bedrest without getting up at all. I was in a very dark place when I received a gift of a simple set of paints from my husband. He wanted me to use painting as a sort of release/therapy. Lying flat on my side in bed, having to use both hands simultaneously to grip the brush, I started to paint and realised it did me good. When I was finally able to sit in my wheelchair again, I noticed none of my paintings were straight which is why I called myself .The Wonky Artist.
I paint with watercolours but also use some acrylics and fine liners in my practice. My work is full of life and colour and it makes people happy. I love to paint maps, nature and flowers.
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www.thewonkyartist.com @thewonkyartist
Eat me
Woomi lee
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Length (cm)
29.7
Width (cm)
42 cm
Location
London
Medium
risograph
Selling Price
£50
Eat Me visualizes the surreal moment when emotional emptiness transforms into uncontrollable appetite. Inspired by the whimsical yet haunting motif in Alice in Wonderland, where food whispers commands like Eat Me, this piece reimagines binge eating as a symbolic response to anxiety, loneliness, and societal pressure. For many young adults navigating early adulthood, expectations around success, credentials, performance, and identity accumulate quietly until they manifest as internal voids.
This work uses playful visual language like talking snacks, tear-salt, and broken-heart crisps to express how food can become both a source of temporary comfort and a mirror to deeper emotional distress. It invites viewers to consider: Have you ever felt full, yet completely empty? Through this lens, Eat Me is not simply about consumption, but about the invisible mental weight that leads us there.
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He ain't heavy he's my brother
Marie Connery
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Length (cm)
80x60cm
Width (cm)
80x60cm
Location
Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex
Medium
mIxed media on canvas
Selling Price
£600
This work is about my observations and discussions with my brother on his bipolar condition. The highs and lows of the condition switch like the tide. He is often very misunderstood, often this leads to isolation and long periods in his own company.
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Process of Grief
Carol Ertl
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Length (cm)
76x61
Width (cm)
76x61
Location
East Yorkshire
Medium
Oil
Selling Price
£200
Having lost our son eight years ago I consider grief to be akin to a mental health issue.
The loss of a child is overwhelming. It�s a tunnel that begins so dark and so disorienting that living life without your child is meaningless. So the process of grief begins� For me painting was my salvation. As time has passed I wanted to put my son in a painting that hints of him. My colour choice describes raw grief and pain that slowly dissipates to paler shades but never entirely leaves you.
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The mind is always free
David W Westwood
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Length (cm)
42 cm by 59.4 cm by 1 cm
Width (cm)
42 cm by 59.4 cm by 1 cm
Location
Birmingham
Medium
Created in mixed media, Air drying clay, fabric, metal, plastic, glitter, hologram card, metal leaf, oil paint and glass paint on A2 canvas board.
Selling Price
£350.00
As i am a person with mental health problems, I have been inspired by the freedom of my mind to travel and create, You can lock up the body but not the mind. My own mental health illness has been my worst enemy and very best friend.
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BDD
Melody Parsk
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Length (cm)
720x1600
Width (cm)
720x1600
Location
Leeds
Medium
Photography.
Selling Price
£50
This artwork is about my personal struggle with body dismorphia disorder. I always saw myself in a bad light, I absolutely felt sick when I saw myself in photographs I couldn't handle it and I would feel disgusting all day.
I took a picture in the mirror on holiday once for when I recovered I could see how i actually look and not what I perceive myself to look like. Now I have been through extensive therapy for this my mind is different I see myself in a better way. It's still a struggle but I don't hate it like I used to. It's like your mind is telling you, you are fat you don't look good then I would punish myself. So this dark cloud is the thoughts, my mind, my mental health hanging over my head constantly every minute of everyday.
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Year of the Snake
Vanessa de Largie
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Length (cm)
30
Width (cm)
40cms
Location
Melbourne, Australia
Medium
Acrylic
Selling Price
£150
Vanessa de Largie is an Australian emerging artist and full time university student. Between 2020 to 2024, Vanessa endured the most brutal mental health battle of her life - caused by untreated trauma and severe sexual violence. The 'Year of the Snake' is a painting that was birthed during an art therapy session.
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