The Eunoia Curators Collective invited Marie Austin-Harwood to submit artwork to be submitted for their virtual gallery, the theme was Electro Zenit. The work was based on the ebbs and flows of mental health, focusing on CPTSD (Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and SAD (Sessional Adjustment Disorder). The work you see featured in the exhibition is of drawings and paintings which were created in an A3 sketchbook using pen, pencil, watercolor paint, ink, and collaged materials, which I uploaded to Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator and digitalised for the exhibition.
Marie has been described as a multidisciplinary creative, her heart is in design and she creates art for therapeutic reasons. Marie did contemplate and look into having her artist studio when she was breaking away from full-time art and design school teaching, but no matter what she tried, the only art she made was a deep delve into the dark side of her past and she decided that to live and work with this every day would be detrimental to her health and wellbeing.
Becoming a full-time designer creating brands and websites, who also lectures about her designs in colleges and supports young designers with their goals, has been the best move she has made. Marie left art college never wanting to create art ever again after completing her original degree in Fine Art, she now realises that she should have been doing a design course.
