Dementia painting : the later paintings of Joan Colnbrook as documented and assembled by her son / Stefan Szczelkun.

"My mum, Joan Colnbrook was an artist who got vascular Dementia in her late Eighties. Most of her life was focused on being a mother to three children and housewife in the suburb of Shepperton-on-Thames. When she was diagnosed I began to think about how I could best relate to her in this stage of her life. I documented three aspects of her life on video: her collection of needlework; the songs of her youth; and supporting her to carry on painting. This book focuses in more depth on the paintings she made in the four years she was living in a care-home in Walton. Dementia seemed to liberate another kind of art from her which was exciting to witness. The book puts a selection of these later paintings in the context of her life as a suburban housewife, mother and artist." -- https://stefan-szczelkun.blogspot.com/2023/03/new-publication-announcement-dementia.html, [accessed 11/12/2023].