when reality starts getting too much for me, I feel better when I escape into my imagination.

I feel better when I walk, with my best friend.

taken this photo whilst on holiday in scotland

I feel better when I visit the places I love.

I feel better when I am taking some time for me.

Memory

photo taken in switzerland was very theraputic and relaxing

A Chorkie – Mini running free like the wind on the beach

a figure walking on the beach with the sun surrounded in a cloud.

I made this cake for my nephew’s 18th birthday. I got immense pleasure out of seeing his reaction and how he loved it.

I feel better when I am…focussed on the detail.

I feel better when I am…calm.

Relaxing by the canal with a good coffee never fails to relax my mind.

The river runs freely, bubbling with life and enthusiasm for the path it is destined to take.

I get lost in making cakes. Nothing else seems to distract me.

Having access to Arts on Prescription in Milton Keynes taught me the skills to transfer my ‘special place’, to paper.

This was actually a photo I took in Thorndon Park a few years back .. I messed about creating a new image so it would go alongside My Poem… I love Art and I love Writing. I Enjoy the simple pleasures in Life and I live for the moment and try not to worry about the future..

The vibrant lively colours are my ‘busy’ ok thoughts; but the colour mixing and darker shades are when thoughts get so mixed up in Lisa’s world. I find painting it easier than explaining it.

A piece of Art based on a ‘shamanic insight’ I had some years ago. Upon the idea of the Earth- Gaia, The Universe and its Spirits being aware of us, more than what we understand or Realise. A3 size picture created using pencil and colored pencils. – : ).

Self-Portrait. Acrylics on red board.

A cuddle with Misty made the worst of days that good bit better and showed me that there was joy to be had in life.

Digital Composition, reflective of musical notes and the constant movement and rhythms of the sea.

Digital Composition based on videos of my feet in the sea.

This photo represents enjoying and feeling grateful for the simple things in life

My personal take on the mythical creature which symbolises being reborn from fire and ashes

This piece is named after the Ward in Hackney Hospital in London Where I spent most of the Nineties with Bipolar Disorder
Abstract Painting

The root of enthusiasm is Entheos
It means when we are enthusiastic
we are tapping into our greatest potential
Literally translates as “The God Within”

A photo I took from a canal bridge on my way to work in the winter

Herginder Kaur MBACP (Accred)

I-Exist-Therapy

Ceramics and pattern design – 120 tiles handmade – images of support / wellbeing & recovery

Textiles hand sewn and machine embroidery – colour ,texture and freedom just to create and relax

Outside mural I designed and painted for an all female ward in east London. It was the first time that I had drawn and painted anything for over 10 years since I was at secondary school and studying for my Art GCSE.

Mural I painted for a female mental health ward in east london

My dog

A small Chapel in Kent

I love to paint. I made these marks with my fingers in a whirl of energy. I used acrylic paint on canvas. When I had finished the piece it had no title but then Nicola, my wife, named it. She felt it was very much a part of me. For this painting I had used a part of my body to make marks about the way I was feeling, and she saw this as me leaving my mark, leaving traces of who I am. So we named it ‘Traces’. I like that.

I find trees a source of wonder. I painted this idea of one after looking at trees this summer. For me, it shows the wonderful energy in life and as it bursts with life so it bursts off the canvas.

Abstract with felt tips, wax crayon and powdery crayons

All crossed stitched and made into cushion

Cross stitched home with flowery garden

Abstract work

Eucalyptus

While there are multiples and repetition in terms of form, there is individuality, each dish being an experiment in its own right. Found household items are fused to the rough-edged, hand-formed crucibles, arranged with geometric precision giving a satisfying completeness, a pattern in the darkness, reassurance in a tumultuous world.