Emily Donovan
Anxiety
Oil paint
September 2020

Emily Donovan
Exhaustion
Oil paint
October 2020

Emily Donovan
Self Love
Oil paint
October 2020

The purpose of my pieces is to bring awareness to mental health issues and the importance of Art Therapy.  Through my work I try to depict what others have told me they feel is happening to them when going through certain feelings.  I interviewed different people for each painting and asked them to describe in metaphors, similies, and analogies what they feel is happening to them or around them when experiencing different mental health issues.

I want to bring attention to the reality that people can have a hard time describing feelings in realistic terms and that it is sometimes easier to paint a picture to help get across the way that different mental health issues can affect people.

Emily Donovan will be graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art with a 2D Concentration.