Drawing Life – art for people living with dementia

Picasso said it took him a lifetime to learn to paint like a child.  Drawing Life puts this deliberately provocative statement to the test by working with people with nearly a lifetime behind them, and who are living with dementia and other age-related issues. 

I set up Drawing Life five years ago by merging two different interests: life drawing and memory.  I have spent many an hour sketching in life drawing classes and have also written a best-selling book about mnemonics, or memory devices, titled ‘I Before E, except after C’.

With National Lottery funding I gathered a team of professional artists and models and knocked on the doors of care homes in my hometown Hastings, and lately further afield, and we have been welcomed with open arms.