WPF Therapy‘Exploring Parental Loss through Making ‘Art’ WPF Therapy, October 2022

On-line talk by Fay Ballard

WPF Therapy was established in 1969 as a charity to offer training in psychodynamic counselling and psychotherapy. Fay was invited to give a presentation about her autobiographical drawings and the topic of art as reparation. Fay explained how she had created a body of work around the subject of loss and grief after the death of her mother and father. Fay’s mother had died suddenly in 1964 when Fay was seven, and the artist wanted to make drawings to help re-instate her mother in her inner life.