How Art can change your life

Artists have been conveying aspirations, emotions, ideas and stories for thousands of years. From Frida Kahlo confronting her anxieties to Henri Matisse embracing happiness, and Louise Bourgeois conquering fear to Auguste Rodin finding hope, this accessible guide shows how you too can use art to work through difficult emotions and improve your mental wellbeing. Even art that unsettles can help us to think and feel differently. This book will help everyone to ‘read’ these messages, and thereby enrich their own emotional life through art.