![art, therapy, painting, healing, hospital, mental health, mental illness, recovery, painter, image](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2022/10/yannis-papanastasopoulos-kKzbyDeb62M-unsplash-470x140.jpg?x81652)
In his 1949 piece “Creative Therapy”, Jacob Lawrence paints this engaging scene that depicts several psychiatric patients engaged in painting. Prior to his prestige and…
![image, acrylic, painting, art composition, francis bacon, local artist, painter, mother, child, childhood trauma, art therapy, expression, coping, sadness, anger, pain, hurt, grief, mental health, mental illness](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2020/07/FF3C5154-7C10-440D-90DA-06A09A1F32DF-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
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…
![The Horrors of War](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2018/11/Antoine-Jean-Gros-Battle-of-Nazareth-death-suffering-470x140.jpg?x81652)
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 –…
![Kaleidoscope Cats](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2018/02/1280px-Louis_Wain_The_bachelor_party-470x140.jpg?x81652)
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…
![Surprising Side Effect of Parkinson’s Drug: Compulsive Creativity](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2017/12/TL3-_-Feature-1_preview-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
In 2014, Ingrid Hauff was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease (PD), a degenerative disorder that attacks the nervous system, leading to speech impairment, loss of control…
![A Ship Without a Rudder](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2017/05/Harbor-Web-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Most people are familiar with Edvard Munch through his classic work The Scream. What some may not be familiar with is the fact that Munch…
![Terrifying Visions](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2017/04/gruen1-470x140.png?x81652)
The 16th century painting “The Temptation of St. Anthony” by Matthias Grünewald depicts the visions of a person suffering from what we now call schizophrenia….
![The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/07/Goya-_-CROPPED-470x140.jpg?x81652)
‘The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters’ is an etching by painter Francisco Goya in 1799 of the artist sleeping while nightmarish creatures fly above him….