Rae Morgan, a mental health advocate, writer and storyteller, created these pieces while she was hospitalized in an outpatient program with bipolar disorder. She says…
Jennifer Bae is an artist from Guelph, Ontario. In her adolescence and young adulthood, the artist sought solace in macabre art that revolved around themes…
Richard Dadd was a Victorian era English painter who had a penchant for creating imaginative paintings of fairies and the supernatural, which he rendered with…
George Frederick Watts was a famous English Victorian painter and sculptor, associated with the Symbolist movement. After Watts endured the tragic loss of his mother…
Billy Byrne from London, United Kingdoms, is an up-and-coming artist with a uniquely surreal approach. He has displayed his work in various galleries including The…
‘Sorrow’, an 1882 drawing by Vincent van Gogh, depicts a 32-year-old pregnant woman, Clasina Maria Hoornik, who went by the name of Sien. Sien was homeless and had addictions to alcohol and tobacco and was working in prostitution. Van Goh provided her and…
Glenn Brady is a talented artist from Brisbane, Australia. Many of his pieces are landscapes depicting rows of wooden houses behind narrow roads in a…
Kim Noble is a prolific artist living with Dissociative Identity Disorder, likely resulting from severe childhood trauma. Kim has twenty different personalities, and in order to communicate…
Based in Toronto, Canada, artist Charli Forrester experienced a period of insomnia in September 2017 and turned to drawing to occupy her mind. The next day, she…
Making art has always been a part of human expression and seems to have positive effects for individuals working through various emotional turmoil. Art does not…
Though appointed by Napoleon Bonaparte to grandly depict the exploits of the French army, artist Antoine-Jean Gros instead depicted the destruction wrought by Napoleon’s army –…
“Oak Fractured by Lightning” is an oil painting created by Russian landscape artist Maxim Vorobiev in 1842. Most of Vorobiev’s paintings depict peaceful sceneries including countrysides, seasides, rivers and trees. However, this…
From Brisbane, Australia, self-taught artist Glenn Brady mesmerizes viewers with his dark and eerie paintings. Turning Blue is no exception. Brady uses blueish hues to portray…
Kim Noble is an artist living with Dissociative Identity Disorder. Once called Multiple Personality Disorder, DID is a mental illness in which an individual’s identity…
Many artists are taking to Instagram and other social media platforms to do their part in supporting individuals struggling with their mental health. “Santa_ana_dreamin714“, the…
English artist Louis Wain (1860-1939) became well-known for his unique paintings all revolving around the humanization of cats. Wain was said to of suffered from…
‘The Weeping Woman’ is an oil-on-canvas painting created by Pablo Picasso, in 1937. Many believe that the painting is a continuation of his famous Guernica…
Alexa Meade captures the brutality of depression through her series of self-portraits titled “Falling”. Alexa has suffered from depression from the age of 10, and…
