You can practice mindfulness by spending time looking at an artwork, and it can be a very helpful tool to calm and settle your thoughts. Longer engagement with a painting or sculpture will produce a deeper sense of appreciation and wellbeing.
Begin by looking at the painting for a couple of minutes. Is there a pattern being formed by the shapes, colours and textures within the painting? Are your eyes drawn to one section of the work that has held your attention?
Grey and White 1961
Henry Mundy (1919–2019)
Oil & pastel on paper
H 65 x W 75.5 cm
Ferens Art Gallery
Piazza del Duomo, Taormina, Sicily, Looking up to the Carmine Church c.1939
James Kerr-Lawson (1864–1939)
Oil on panel
H 39.5 x W 51 cm
Ferens Art Gallery
Garden at Woodyates Manor, Dorset
Paul Ayshford Methuen (1886–1974)
Oil on canvas
H 54.5 x W 75 cm
Ferens Art Gallery
The Red Hat (Margaret Meninsky) 1919
Bernard Meninsky (1891–1950)
Oil on canvas
H 114.2 x W 76.2 cm
Ferens Art Gallery
David Bomberg (1890–1957)
Oil on canvas
H 50.8 x W 66 cm
Ferens Art Gallery
1939–41 (winter landscape - Halsetown) 1939–1941
Ben Nicholson (1894–1982)
Oil & pencil on board
H 22.3 x W 28 cm
Ferens Art Gallery
Sunlight and Shadow c.1925
Harry Percy Clifford (1870–1943)
Oil on canvas
H 57.2 x W 76.7 cm
Ferens Art Gallery
Carraroe, County Galway, Ireland late 1940s–c.1950
Eileen Bessie Anderson (1888–1974)
Oil on canvas
H 40 x W 45 cm
Ferens Art Gallery
Morning Calm, Concarneau, France c.1930
Terrick John Williams (1860–1936)
Oil on canvas
H 61 x W 81.5 cm
Ferens Art Gallery
The Flowing Tide c.1910
Moffat Peter Lindner (1852–1949)
Oil on canvas
H 87.5 x W 115.5 cm
Ferens Art Gallery
The Almond Tree 1920s
Emily Beatrice Bland (1864–1951)
Oil on board
H 45.5 x W 60 cm
Ferens Art Gallery
Newlyn, Cornwall 1906
Stanhope Alexander Forbes (1857–1947)
Oil on canvas
H 123 x W 97 cm
Ferens Art Gallery
Moonlight, Cornish Coast c.1906
Albert Julius Olsson (1864–1942)
Oil on canvas
H 61 x W 76 cm
Ferens Art Gallery
Cream Head Study 1994
Alison Watt (b.1965)
Oil on canvas on board
H 18.7 x W 17.7 cm
Ferens Art Gallery
The Idyll c.1931–1932
Walter Richard Sickert (1860–1942)
Oil on canvas
H 81.4 x W 85.2 cm
Ferens Art Gallery
Stanley Spencer (1891–1959)
Oil on canvas
H 76.2 x W 50.8 cm
Ferens Art Gallery
The Big Book 1946
Geoffrey Arthur Tibble (1909–1952)
Oil on canvas
H 68.8 x W 56.2 cm
Ferens Art Gallery
Musicians 1936
Kate Elizabeth Olver (1881–1960)
Oil on cardboard
H 75 x W 74.5 cm
Ferens Art Gallery
Louise Pickard (1865–1928)
Oil on canvas
H 54 x W 65 cm
Ferens Art Gallery
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