very young my grandparents looked after its why I feel comfortable with older people the storytelling stitching afternoons with grandma and grandpa (handkerchief embroidered with an A for Arthur) digging cigars out of havana boxes his mischief already spinning the tale say of the man sitting on a toilet seat blown by a wartime bomb all the way across their garden perfectly alright but a little surprised the telling of memory the laugh alight touch of the hand and what is the value and what does this making mean how to frame that shaky line from here to age
Gallery

as a pioneer of new thinking (new forms allow reassessment of old habits) as resistance – allows autonomy as communication – brings closeness (both the power and discomfort of engagement) as reflective act –  brings insight as a self-reflexive process - reflector of health: mental and physical/the situation of the patient becomes part of the art-making process

empathy
exteriorising
reaffirming identity
catharsis
achievement and challenge


Control issues: patient/artist politics
Outsider artists, Naive artist 
(Jean Debuffet as conductor)
I do
Touch everything
Drawing is a gift, you drawfrom your memory
whether you can see or not of places you've been and
things you would like to do
take it as it comes, use what you've got and make
    posters
  prints  
concrete poems    
drawings  
 
   
artist books