Welcome to Marcus Paintings

Upcoming Events:

 

Tuesday October 7th - Monday October 14th

A Journey of Questions in Words and Pictures: Exhibition and Book Launch 

At Trinity Gallery and Theatre, Church Road, Royal Tunbridge Wells TN11JP

Marcus collaborates with writer Mike Tait launching their book ‘ The Visitors, A Journey of Questions in Words and Pictures.’

This extraordinary tale involves strange visitors who introduce alternative ways of  viewing the world by organising meetings between those with power and those who live on the fringes of society. The narrative is illuminated by the paintings of Marcus Price  and ideas from the analytic writers,DW Winnicott , SH Foulkes and Pat De Mare. Some of the paintings will be for sale at the event.

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About us

 

Marcus Paintings is a web-site created for and by  the psychotherapist and painter Marcus Price who is based in Kent UK.

 

Exhibition of a paintings at The  Tavistock Centre, Belsize Park London. November 24th to December 29th 2025.

 

                           Captivity and Freedom
 
The paintings in this collection are largely free associative musings that sometimes reflect conflicting themes in my life: I wrestle with the institutions that pervade peoples lives and that congeal into the images, almost as fast as I try to escape by painting over them. It is an inevitable theme having spent most of my life working for healthcare organisations.
 
Realising that all relationships can bring captivity and freedom, I gain the emotional energy to paint while in the vicinity of the people whom I love and this perhaps overflows into my love of painting. I often paint during an alternative large group hosted in
India by The Hank Nunn Institute (primarily a therapeutic clinic) which is attended by people from many different countries.
 
Large group work has its own theory base and can assist people in making links between the personal and the political. Tuning into the group from my garden studio by zoom and responding in paint to the many personal and cultural struggles, it is unsurprising that troubling existential issues such as war and climate change seem to flow through the work. However, Such interpretations can limit possibilities or even be a distraction for the viewer rather than an aid to meaning. It is common for people to find temporary reassurance in diagnostic titles but for me, it is the implicit tensions in the images that carry meaning. Like dreams, the paintings contain multiple meanings and it brings me a lot of pleasure when people tell me about my paintings and help me discover them.