Engagement in art is a way to improve your wellbeing. Engagement takes many forms, be it participating (eg: painting, drawing, sculpting) to appreciation (eg: art history, literature, museum visits, bespoke art travel). You don’t have to produce fine art to reap the benefits of creating.
Health benefits include:
- Improves mental health Art plays an important therapeutic role in mental health, through expression of creativity.
- Relieves stress Art relaxes the mind which further helps blood pressure, headaches, joint pains etc.
- Arrests cognitive decline Art activates both the right and left brain hemispheres helping brain development and boosting imagination powers.
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Strengthens self esteem
Aids communication and builds confidence overcoming loneliness and depression.
- Encourages critical thinking Enhances problem solving skills and helps us to focus more and concentrate.
- Reduces depression Art can serve as a vehicle for alleviating the burden of depression.
"If you hear a voice within you say, 'You cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”