I have been suffering from mental illness for 25 years and have always found it very difficult to communicate my feelings to people. I find it easy to convey what I am thinking through my art work. Most of my art work can be described as surreal and the majority is black pen on white paper. I mostly do automatic drawing, I just look at a blank page and I start drawing. Nearly all of my work could be described as negative but to me getting all this negativity out of my head and onto paper becomes a very positive act.