Bryan Charnley (1949 -1991)

Dates: 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009. Brian Charnley was an enthusiastic painter, studied art at secondary school, and started to study at an art college. He started to suffer from schizophrenia at age 23 and was hospitalised two years later. He was put on drugs and electro-convulsive therapy. He wrote "On release I found myself in a fairly desperate state emotionally to which, eventually, I responded by taking up painting and soon went full-time. I gradually began to work more from my imagination and address myself to an interior life.

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