Dementia Painting

"""This is a valuable book which not only offers a beautiful documentation of Joan's artistic legacy but also an important contribution to on-going questions around what art is, who makes it and how is it valued. Presenting Joan's paintings in this way, documenting both her personal and artistic journey, 'Painting with Dementia' positions itself as a challenge to the Western art system and artistic narratives we are accustomed to. Instead, we are asked to look at paintings from someone ordinarily excluded from that system and offered with an important critique on our contemporary society, particularly in regards to questions of class, gender and culture..."" Rachael Davies ""Stefan Szcelkun's 'Dementia Painting' is both a panoramic critique of class, art, gender and culture and an uplifing personal and fearless memento mori of what may lie ahead for many of us. Through the lens of Joan Colnbrook's 'amateur' paintings Szcelkun charts her journey from traditional subject matter and figurative technique to abstraction..."" Chris Saunders  ""A journey from housewifery to communal living, from figurative to abstract, copiously illustrated with many of her bright child-like images (inevitably we are all returning there) in glorious colour and poignant photographs of Joan at work with sketchpad and well-used paint set. A radical treatise on the ability of art, outsider art (if you will) to articulate inner worlds and emotions unspoken."" Michael Kemp Excerpted from: https: //www.goodreads.com/book/show/123786760-dementia-painting? ac=1&from_search=true&qid=Di6e0Gu7bn&rank=1"