Therapy

 https://www.lauriestonhall.org.uk/

Lauriston Hall is a commune in Scotland which runs courses. I went three times for Women's Art Therapy. It was amazing. When I was writing the last post I remembered one of the things I dealt with at Laurieston was the lack of intimacy I suffered as a child.  I remembered taking photos of the paintings I produced about this so I searched them out. Rather more successfully than the Bayeux Tapestry mock up. Not only that, I scanned them.

I painted what I would have liked to have happened at five years old. I even remembered the dress I wore.

I painted this to illustrate the need I had. I wanted to be hugged by all those arms.

The important painting here is the lower one. I wanted to nestle in the branches of a tree to feel safe.