This autumn, the Hepworth in Wakefield will be showing a large collection of hospital drawings made by Barbara Hepworth in the 1940s. The sculptor was invited into the operating theatre at Exeter to ...

The work collected in The Electric Pencil: Drawings from Inside State Hospital No. 3 shows how the need to create art, even in the most adverse situation ultimately triumphs. When I first encountered ...

Did you know that picking up a pencil to doodle or making a figure out of clay can help you to relieve stress, depression, and fear, and can even help diminish pain or other physical symptoms? Art ...