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We launched the SANE Creative Awards Scheme in May 2019.
It built on the success of the charity’s previous Art Award Scheme launched in 1994, which helped many painters, photographers and craftspeople, some of whom embarked on successful careers as a result.
Our aim is to help improve the quality of life for people with mental health problems, their families and carers.
The first round of awards received an overwhelming response, with applicants submitting work of very high quality. We hope you enjoy this gallery featuring some of the artists’ work.
They Knew Where The Witches Were
By Maria
I’d love to buy new paints. My acrylics are not in a good state, most of them are almost dried up and I have no canvases either. I wasn’t expecting that amount and it was a huge surprise!
What Became of the Blackbird Sisters
By Maria
Girl in the Window
By Jennie Wishart
My paintings have tended to be small because of money. I can’t afford to paint them on larger canvases.
Not One Black Dog But Three (I Never Stood a Chance)
By Jennie Wishart
My plan is to paint these images on a larger scale. Make a statement about how you feel when in the depths of mental health anguish.
Landscape photograph
By Mohammed Laanaya
By Joseph Davies
Is There No Place?
By Dawn Kalu
By Richard Foley
I love art making and I get inspired by everything that surrounds me, trees, people, buildings, sounds and colours.
By Richard Foley
By Richard Foley
Buildwoman
By Lydia May Francis-Askew
Etching requires precision, if I was too aggressive my lines were messy and if I was overcautious the lines were unsteady with the loss of momentum. I had to keep my body calm and my body kept my mind calm.
Glass
By Lydia May Francis-Askew
I discovered that while art didn’t fix me, it could help get me to the next moment. It showed me I could lean into emotions, I could bend. It wasn’t the catharsis of representation but of action.
Sisterpool
By Lydia May Francis-Askew
Making Art means that at the end of an otherwise bad day I get to see a part of myself I can say that I love, that is beautiful and mean it. The process is where I find the greatest solace.
By Mark Noble
The influences that have inspired me on my journey are artists such as Turner, who embraced the power and the majesty of the natural world and attempted to harness both its destructive force and its magical qualities to focus it (in a painting) into a single point of sublime beauty.
Tree in Winter Snow
By Mark Noble
My work is inspired by the natural world and by those artists who represent it through its wonder and grandeur and by allowing the mind to cross the barrier between the physical universe and the imaginary one.
Storms of the Lakes
By Mark Noble
Thunder Falls
By Mark Noble
George and The Dragon
By Ann Walshaw
George and the Dragon 2
By Ann Walshaw
Prometheus bound
By Ann Walshaw
Gladiator and Lion
By Ann Walshaw
Tiger
By Terrence Leggatt
Etching and screenprinting sees my anger fade away. I feel at ease, relaxed and my mind wonders why I’ve not discovered this tranquillity before now.
Cat
By Terrence Leggatt
By Ailish Henderson
By Philip Potter
By Philip Potter
By Philip Potter
Glastonbury
By George J Harding
My work reflects my own experience of mental illness but is also a universal condition. It is my pain put into a painting.
I Have Never Met A Man So Ignorant That I Couldn’t Learn Something From Him
By George J Harding
Paul Beard
By George J Harding
Sancreed
By George J Harding
Neighbour
By George J Harding
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