![Olga Boznanska: A Story of Uneasy Childhood Expressed in Art](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2021/03/A441D59E-12D2-4FF3-B578-34115285A772-470x140.png?x81652)
Olga Boznaska (1865-1940) is a famous female Polish Post-Impressionist painter. She was prominent for multiple portraits of fragile women and children permeated with hints of…
![Amnesia](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2020/06/F037BA1F-291E-4FC7-9F64-D83BD0C288B8-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
Suse Silva is a Toronto based visual artist working in Toronto. She uses visual art as a way to express her internal experiences to being…
![Visual Art, Fiber Art, Trauma, Depression, Abuse, Mental Health, Recovery, Coping, Aging, Self Acceptance](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2020/02/B80FF81D-7CBE-48AF-9264-BC496719C85A-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
This hand-stitched piece of fiber art was created by Diana Scott, a Canadian artist who is involved in the fiber art community in Burlington Ontario…
![Visual Art, Photography, Anxiety, Depression, Mental Illness, Mental Health, Recovery, Coping, Addiction, Eating Disorder](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/07/6A72AE51-AC34-4BE5-8562-E3969B2FDA98-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
This series of images created by York University student Jessica Butler, represents her struggle with anxiety. The series represents internally feeling overwhelmed and chaotic, while…
![Rebecca Belmore, Indigenous, Aboriginal, Women, Missing, Murdered, First Nations, RCMP, Visual Art, Community, Awareness](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2018/12/Rebecca-Belmore-Indigenous-Aboriginal-Women-Missing-Murdered-First-Nations-Visual-Art-Awareness-470x140.jpg?x81652)
A catalogue called Vancouver Eastside Missing Women has picture after picture of different Indigenous women and their tragic stories. In one case, Lisa Marie Young,…
![Never Too Late to Start](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2018/12/painting-470x140.jpg?x81652)
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…
![Facing Your Demons](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2018/01/ayca-pexels-photo-225011-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
Connor Johnstone of Toronto, Canada created his piece “Facing Your Demons”, during an all time low in his life. The drawing depicts some of the…