Blue, 2013
“I was pushing up from the bottom of the bath and the oily, inky water was swirling around me like liquor. It was such a perfect way for me to try to get that sickly, horrible feeling that was in my body at the time out into something visual.”
In 2014, Liz Atkin suffered a 10-month bout of severe depression. An artist, who was already using her work to help combat her life-long battle with compulsive skin picking (CSP), she was able, once more, to turn to creativity as a means of survival. “It enabled me to pull myself back to health,” she reflects. The resulting works, including Curdled (2014), were shown at the Bethlem Gallery as part of the Anxiety Festival that year.