Mental Health Awareness Week: Nature and what it means to me

This week is Mental Health Awareness Week (10-16th May, 2021) and the theme is "nature". It's almost impossible to think about good mental health without considering the part that the natural world plays in it for us all.

Focusing your mind to nature and expressing this in art or a craft is calming and a reset from the bustle of our everyday lives.

No art is bad, it's all creation and deserves celebration.

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Artworks available: 2021 Solo Show at the Castle Gallery, Inverness

4th to 26th June: SOLO SHOW The Castle Gallery, Inverness Scotland. 'Arisaig to Durness: A Journey of Memories' Landscape painting in oil and mixed media inspired by many years of my visits to the west coast of Scotland and the memories from those visually stunning places.

View all the original artworks that will be in this exhibition. If you’d like to purchase any of these works, they will be online shortly here: https://shop.castlegallery.co.uk/collections/shazia-mahmood or contact Denise directly at the Gallery.

View all the original artworks that will be in my exhibition at the Castle Gallery, Inverness. If you’d like to purchase any of these works, please contact Denise at the gallery directly.

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20 years of the Castle Gallery in Inverness

When Denise told me about this exhibition I was thrilled. It made me feel incredibly proud to have worked 20 years with the Castle Gallery. To be able to work with Denise and the staff at the Castle gallery for this long has been a complete privilege. I say this because the dedication the gallery has to the Artists are like no other. The volume of sales that we have achieved over the years have been a testament to the artist and gallery relationship.

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