Previous Winners
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, we launched the SANE Creative Awards Scheme in May 2019.
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.
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By John Archibald
The feeling of pushing my potential with my art and that I am developing a complex experience is exciting, and reason enough to see beyond my mental illness and the ordinary problems and challenges of life.
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By John Archibald
The feeling of pushing my potential with my art and that I am developing a complex experience is exciting, and reason enough to see beyond my mental illness and the ordinary problems and challenges of life.
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Winter Moon
By Ashley Ferrari
I use oils and like to explore using colour and light to create feelings of peace and serenity in the viewer. I paint with the aim of soothing the viewer and creating the feelings of peace and serenity that I so crave myself.
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Forest Path
By Ashley Ferrari
SANE’s grant will hopefully help me to develop my practice and continue to gain strength and work through difficult emotions and experiences.
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Miles To Go Before I Sleep
By Camille Ormston
The search for truth, beauty and goodness is a game of chess we play with ourselves.
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Mandala
By Camille Ormston
I explore the human condition, the unconscious and conscious mental states – nature and life’s journey.
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By Ann Renfrew
I initially started to paint alongside my granddaughter … creative activities were a way of connecting with my granddaughter when she came to live with me, I am now her main carer.
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By Ann Renfrew
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By Ann-Valancha Brown
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By Ann-Valancha Brown
Art has been a lifeline in my personal journey to recovery, as I am able to explore my challenges or experiences through my art practice.
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By Ann-Valancha Brown
My themes are forever changing, as I am always learning new techniques from different artists.
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By Amanda Wells
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By Amanda Wells
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By Amanda Wells
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Stefan
By Christine Harder
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Dad and I
By Christine Harder
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By Pamela
My family are amazed that I have been able to produce and maintain my blog under these circumstances, particularly given my mental health challenges.
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By Pamela
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By Paulo Oliveira
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By Ruby Roberts
Art is my passion and it helps calm the swirling vortex of chaos that are my mental illnesses.
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By Ruby Roberts
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Phoenix
By Terence Wilde
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By Terence Wilde
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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!
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What Became of the Blackbird Sisters
By Maria
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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.
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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.
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Landscape photograph
By Mohammed Laanaya
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By Joseph Davies
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Is There No Place?
By Dawn Kalu
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By Richard Foley
I love art making and I get inspired by everything that surrounds me, trees, people, buildings, sounds and colours.
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By Richard Foley
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By Richard Foley
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Storms of the Lakes
By Mark Noble
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Thunder Falls
By Mark Noble
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George and The Dragon
By Ann Walshaw
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George and the Dragon 2
By Ann Walshaw
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Prometheus bound
By Ann Walshaw
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Gladiator and Lion
By Ann Walshaw
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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.
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Cat
By Terrence Leggatt
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By Ailish Henderson
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By Philip Potter
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By Philip Potter
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By Philip Potter
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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.
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I Have Never Met A Man So Ignorant That I Couldn’t Learn Something From Him
By George J Harding
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Paul Beard
By George J Harding
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Sancreed
By George J Harding
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Neighbour
By George J Harding
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Use or publication of any item displayed is strictly prohibited without prior written authorisation from SANE. Images are published with the permission of the artists, who are the relevant copyright owners.
