Drawn Out

With determination, and an awareness of my mental health, I tentatively make small steps each day towards creating my art. Some days I am physically restricted due to the chronic pain flare-ups and these episodes can last for weeks at a time.

Today, I feel clearer than I have for a while, as I start to recover and regain my energy I can begin to make sense of this constant struggle I am entangled with.

In time I hope this platform can illustrate the process I use in my art practice, showing how I work through mental and physical health issues creatively, encouraging others to start their own creative journey.

I find the artistic focus and application creates a new space to allow me to draw out, examine and understand the issues. At the very least doing art takes the focus away from my pain, as well as giving time for self healing my mental health.

My process has been slow, this was the last artwork I completed, in the spring of 2020.
Composed of a frame constructed from floristry wire and rubber bands. The tension of the rubber bands distorted and shaped the overall frame. It represents many things, presently it conveys the way the stress and tension held within oneself has an affect on the surface of the body.