Mud

Mud psycurator and emotionalist ✌️

even if it doesn't turn out the way you think it will - it's okay to ask for help 🩶
01/08/2026

even if it doesn't turn out the way you think it will - it's okay to ask for help 🩶

i feel directionless 🫥acrylic on card // mud 2026
18/07/2026

i feel directionless 🫥

acrylic on card // mud 2026

Ni****ne - acrylic on cardboard - mud 2023 (plus poem)i made this piece after an inpatient stay in a mental health hospi...
17/07/2026

Ni****ne - acrylic on cardboard - mud 2023 (plus poem)

i made this piece after an inpatient stay in a mental health hospital - i do smoke, but as i was only allowed in the secure outside area, i wasn't allowed to***co. what i Was allowed was those really dodgy e-ci******es - the ones that look like plastic ci******es. we would trustingly hand over our cash to someone with shop privileges and hope they would come back with a plastic bagful of these e-ci******es.

back then i often dissociated or had bouts of derealization - this poem is informed by those hazy, unclear and confusing days spent in that outdoor space, thinking nothing at all whilst zonked on sleep meds..

"She sucks on her e-cigarette
it tastes like the outside
desperation in a tube.
she turns her head
from side to side
staring blankly all around her
taking nothing in
but ni****ne.

a step forward, she's at the counter
name?
turn the page
a little paper cup
with little paper pills,
plastic gulp of water
zopiclone?
it must be time for bed
this is how she keeps track.
doc, are they working, doc?
am i cured yet, doc?
the little paper cup
with little paper pills
is not easy to hide
eyes on you check that every pill
is gone.'

- mud ✌️

Mental Health Conditions as Famous Album Covers: No.1David Bowie - Aladdin Sane (Schizoaffective Disorder)I hand-painted...
11/07/2026

Mental Health Conditions as Famous Album Covers:

No.1

David Bowie - Aladdin Sane (Schizoaffective Disorder)

I hand-painted a number of well-known album covers and linked each one to a different mental health condition. This particular cover represents Schizoaffective Disorder.

Each CD back has a simple description and a 'tracklist' of symptoms, some with a Side A and a Side B.

The CDs were part of a larger piece titled 'MadHouse Records' which looks like music shop shelving and featured 16 different CD covers.

It was exhibited during my first solo show at St. George's Arts Centre in Gravesend - 'The Artist Is Insane'.

- Mud

Honest Insecurities Selfie - by Mud (acrylic on old amazon packaging paper)This started off as just 'Honest Selfie'.I ha...
07/07/2026

Honest Insecurities Selfie - by Mud

(acrylic on old amazon packaging paper)

This started off as just 'Honest Selfie'.

I had our full-length mirror hanging precariously off of the curtain rail in the studio - and was attempting to paint as honestly as possible.

As I worked, I honed in on all my self-perceived flaws, all the things that made me insecure at points in my life.

People made fun of my ears in school.
I am all too aware of just how ..long.. my torso is after a lifetime of trying to find clothes that fit my awkward shape.
Strangers have commented on scars;
and I know, I Know, I do weird and wonderful things with my hands when I'm not paying enough attention to them.
Decades of trying to hide inwards means that my posture isn't the greatest either.

Wait hang on this isn't a sad post, what I'm trying to convey is that all these things that I think are insecurities are all things that other people, society, has told me are wrong. Okay so having good posture is obviously better than having s**t posture. But I mean, I believe these are flaws because other people told me they were flaws.

There's nothing wrong with my big ears, and I shouldn't be ashamed of scars. Clothes are cookie cutter moulds and I am just built different 😅 nothing wrong with that. So what if my hands have a mind of their own? It's actually kinda funny 😁

I am learning to not worry what anyone thinks of me, and learn to live authentically, as loud, frank and as chaotic as that may be.

thanks for reading
- mud

The Summer We Burned 🔥 - Poem by Mud Last night whilst lying in bed, I had the words 'The Summer We Burned' stuck in my ...
07/07/2026

The Summer We Burned 🔥
- Poem by Mud

Last night whilst lying in bed, I had the words 'The Summer We Burned' stuck in my head - revolving and repeating over and over. I pulled up a google doc and started to write and didn't stop until I was done.

The windows were cracked - tied tightly with twine - so the cat doesn't make a midnight escape. Chocks of cardboard wedged into the gaps that remained. We lay watching the Portugal/Spain match at the World Cup on tv; dog flat and snoozing in the gentle pulse of the fan.

This truly is the summer we burned. To me, it is a sign of things to come. We shall never have another summer of a reasonable and livable temperature again.. I wonder how much air-conditioning costs?

- mud ✌️🫠

Saint Zero (2026)acrylic on handmade paper -----My first attempt at working with the handmade paper and I felt like a go...
05/07/2026

Saint Zero (2026)
acrylic on handmade paper

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My first attempt at working with the handmade paper and I felt like a good old-fashioned acrylic painting was in order.

Saint Zero visually represents depression.
They represent inertia, listlessness, tiredness - any number of anhedonic feelings conveyed through the ambiguous expression that is open to interpretation.

I really enjoyed the textures, humps and bumps, the mesh's imprint, and the feeling of a dry-ish brush just scrubbing at the paper.

Very tactile 👍 10/10 would recommend just messing about with oh wait I almost forgot, I started this piece by doing a quick drawing with a stump of XL charcoal but I kinda hated it so the paints came out :)

I specifically started with only colours that are found in nature such as brown, yellow ochre, mid-yellow, and sand. For the figure of Saint Zero I added a bit of deep-red.

I am researching natural pigments, inks, and paints too!

- peace ✌️ mud

Hard to look at? Yeh.Hard to take in all at once? Yeh. 'Tough pill to swallow' - Mud / Jun 2026Medication boxes and leaf...
12/06/2026

Hard to look at? Yeh.
Hard to take in all at once? Yeh.

'Tough pill to swallow' - Mud / Jun 2026

Medication boxes and leaflets, modroc, acrylics, cardboard, masking tape, newspaper, wire, and an old shampoo pot.

made this by putting paper across my knees and then placing the tip of a dip pen loaded with ink on the paper and just l...
15/04/2026

made this by putting paper across my knees and then placing the tip of a dip pen loaded with ink on the paper and just letting my hand jump about as my leggys wiggled and shook underneath. letting the vibrations and jerks of my leggys create these wild scribbley marks.

then i took a small roll of thermal paper and pulled it across my knees; and it made these ECG kinda readings, which i layered on top of the first marks.

i decided to make the final image as jarring as possible - tilting and angling the layers, having text begin at the edge of the image, with the colours violently bright, leaving the text almost unreadable.

the idea was that instead of trying to distract myself from discomfort, i would sit with it and create from it.
i hadn't the brain 🧠 juice needed to think whilst i was experiencing the discomfort - so i let the discomfort guide me instead - with this as the result.

idk it kept me occupied but i still Felt™️ the discomfort. however, acknowledging it, naming it, and sitting with it meant that i was not hiding from it or self-medicating in some way. and y'kno what? i'm actually kinda pleased with what came out of it :)

peace ✌️

- mud

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