Blog - Art

Find out more about the life and work of artist Kim Noble.

This story is just as much about Jackie as it is Figgy, and so the thrills of performance are juxtaposed with the struggles of motherhood

A blog on the life of John Sibbald, a patient at Bethlem 1888-1889, presented as part of our Change Minds project

A blog showcasing the creative response to the life of Frederick Robert Fogden, presented as part of our Change Minds project

A blog on the life of Annie Mills Green, a patient at Bethlem 1888-1889, presented as part of our Change Minds project

A blog on the life of Emma Peters, a patient at Bethlem 1888-1889, presented as part of our Change Minds project

A blog on the life of Sarah Jane May, a patient at Bethlem 1888-1889, presented as part of our Change Minds project

In this blog we link some of Joan Rosalind Gunther's art with the relevant notes created during her sessions with Dr Warner.

Joan’s art is extraordinarily vibrant and rich, full of vivid colours and shapes. As far as we know she was untrained

Amy Allingham is one of the first patients in Bethlem for whom we have a image, and whose life story we have been able to trace in various records

In the early 1840s Dr Alexander Morison, then joint physician at Bethlem, commissioned a series of portraits to illustrate his new book

Although the mural is now lost, he was said to have used colour to depict the trees and people in such a way that a passer-by mistook it for Paradise