Chris Silver United Kingdom

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I am a Scottish artist who studied at The Glasgow School of Art. I work primarily in traditional artistic mediums such as drawing and painting. Photography and digital art is also explored, along with sculpture. Themes of the human condition, emotions, mental health and art as therapy are explored.

My practice is informed by my interest in mental health, as someone who has undertaken study in Art Psychotherapy, and also informed by discussions with my late mother, who was a psychiatrist, about mental health. We both endured severe mental illnesses, and we would discuss ways in which to help people and how to get better.

My art is highly therapeutic, and often will reflect feelings of love, anxiety - and a reflection of the subject matter, namely in portraiture as people I know and admire. I read people and express their unique personality and frame of mind through my paintings and drawings.