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Bethlem Gallery
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✨ The Gallery is free and open to all. We provide a platform for artists who have experienced #mentalhealth services.

⏰ Open Weds-Sat, 9.30am-5pm

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Photos from our recent Natural Dye Workshop with Bethany Williams.

The session was inspired by Bethany's current solo exhibition, in which she uses natural dyes from her home region of the Isle of Man.

Bethany's exhibition closes this Saturday 24 January, and we're open Weds-Sat until 5pm!
January 21, 2026 at 10:05 AM
Join our Evening Talk/ Q&A with artist and designer Bethany Williams

Thursday 22 January 2026
6.30-8.30pm
Bethlem Gallery

bethlemgallery.com/whats-on/eve...
January 18, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Have you heard about our new #FriendsofBethlemGallery Membership? 👬

Priced at £80, the one-year membership includes an exclusive Friend of Bethlem Gallery tote bag, designed by @chunkymark.bsky.social

Plus much more, find out more here: bethlemgallery.myshopify.com/products/bec...
January 17, 2026 at 12:00 PM
In response to Bethany Williams' exhibition 'This Wild, Achingly Beautiful Place' Dr Sula Windgassen @thehealthpsych.bsky.social has written an essay 'The body as an extension of the self' which is available to read in our exhibition booklet on our website:

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January 15, 2026 at 10:49 AM
👀 There's just one ticket remaining for Saturday's Natural Dye Workshop with Bethany Williams

Join a natural dye workshop inspired by Bethany’s current solo exhibition, in which she uses natural dyes from her home region of the Isle of Man.  

More info:
bethlemgallery.com/whats-on/nat...
January 14, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Thanks to everyone for visiting, contributing to and buying from this year's Bethlem Art Fair ✨

The fair is now closed, but will be back in November 2026!

Image: Bethlem Gallery Art Fair photo courtesy Peter G Ball

@bethlemmuseum.bsky.social @maudsleycharity.bsky.social
January 10, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Visit the Bethlem Art Fair today and tomorrow, before it closes on Saturday for another year!

This is one of the works submitted to the fair:
@chunkymark.bsky.social, Hug me I'm prickly, 2025, Mixed media, £30

Explore works like this upstairs in @bethlemmuseum.bsky.social until 10 January.
January 9, 2026 at 7:40 AM
Join our Evening Talk/ Q&A with Bethany Williams
Thursday 22 January 2026
6.30-8.30pm

Join us to hear from artist/designer Bethany Williams on her solo exhibition This Wild, Achingly Beautiful Place at Bethlem Gallery.

bethlemgallery.com/whats-on/eve...
January 8, 2026 at 2:59 PM
"I was trying to create this ghostly, beautiful, eerie feeling in the work, like when you lose yourself and you slowly return back to yourself,"

Bethany Williams and her solo exhibition at Bethlem Gallery featured in the BBC at the end of last month:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Creating artwork slowly brought me back to me,' Manx artist says
Bethany Williams drew inspiration from the Manx landscape while recovering from a chronic illness.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 8, 2026 at 1:55 PM
We are open from tomorrow for the last week of the Bethlem Art Fair!

This work submitted is by Yasmine Martinez:

Sometimes I’m Up Sometimes I’m Down, Mixed media, £65

Explore works like this Weds-Sat, 9.30am-5pm upstairs in @bethlemmuseum.bsky.social.
January 6, 2026 at 4:11 PM
More works submitted to our Art Fair 2025 ✨

Sarah Clement, Blue, £25

The Bethlem Art Fair, and Bethany Williams' show This Wild, Achingly Beautiful Place reopen on Friday 2 January 2026. We look forward to seeing you then.

@maudsleycharity.bsky.social
January 3, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Happy New Year from Bethlem Gallery ✨

Image: Bethany Williams, Cashtal yn Ard, Where Self Acceptance Begins, 2025

This work is currently showing at ORTUS Denmark Hill as part of Journey to This Wild, Achingly Beautiful Place showing until 3 March 2026

@maudsleycharity.bsky.social
January 1, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Happy New Year's Eve from Bethlem Gallery 🥂🎆

Image: Diva De Agostino, Tipsy Tiddles 2021, Drawing on paper, £50

This work was submitted to the Bethlem Art Fair 2025. You can visit the fair which re-opens on Friday 2 January 2026 and is open Wednesday to Saturday until 10 January 2026.
December 31, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Works submitted to our Art Fair 2025 ✨

JG, White Kintsugi Horse, £135

The Bethlem Art Fair, and Bethany Williams' show This Wild, Achingly Beautiful Place reopen on Friday 2 January 2026. We look forward to seeing you then.

@maudsleycharity.bsky.social
December 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Works submitted to our Art Fair 2025 ✨

JG, White Kintsugi Horse, £135

The Bethlem Art Fair, and Bethany Williams' show This Wild, Achingly Beautiful Place reopen on Friday 2 January 2026. We look forward to seeing you then.

@maudsleycharity.bsky.social
December 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
❄️ Merry Christmas from everyone at Bethlem Gallery 🎄

Image: Pen and pencil drawing, by artist Kim.
December 25, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Happy Christmas Eve from Bethlem Gallery ☃️

Image: Susannah Oliver, Spiritual Transformation Keston Church, £30

This work was submitted to our annual art fair, which re-opens at the Gallery on Friday 2 January 2026.
December 24, 2025 at 7:55 AM
More works submitted to our Art Fair 2025 ✨

Image: Wen.FrankArtist, Skyscraper (ceramic plate), £80

The Bethlem Art Fair, and Bethany Williams' show This Wild, Achingly Beautiful Place reopen on Friday 2 January 2026. We look froward to seeing you then.

@maudsleycharity.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
More works submitted to our Art Fair 2025 ✨

Dawn Kalu, Shout Louder, Mixed media, £125

The Bethlem Art Fair, and Bethany Williams' show This Wild, Achingly Beautiful Place reopen on Friday 2 January 2026. We look froward to seeing you then.
December 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Need a last minute card or gift?

We are open today and tomorrow before closing for our winter break, and there's a wonderful range of cards, original artworks, photography, prints and ceramics to purchase.

Image: Christmas Cards by Kate Milligan, £2
December 19, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Join us this Saturday for the last day of the Bethlem Art Fair before our Christmas closure, where JanArdenArtist will also be hosting a pop-up, selling jackets and other works painted like the boots here!

Image: JanArdenArtist, Painted boots, £75
December 18, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Photos from a recent workshop with Chaffinch Brook School, a primary and secondary school for pupils with autism.

The appliqué workshop was led by Bethany Williams whose solo exhibition This Wild, Achingly Beautiful Place shows at Bethlem Gallery until 24 January 2026.

#schoolsworkshop
December 17, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Work from #BethlemArtFair2025

Jill Lawton, Goromo Koi, Drawing on paper, £80

Visit the fair upstairs in the @bethlemmuseum.bsky.social until 10 January 2026.
December 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Announcing our Art Fair Theme Award Winners 2025 ✨

This year, artists were invited to submit works on a set theme: ‘Transformation’, inspired by artist Mud‘s solo exhibition.

1st prize: Reb Reid Scott, Twisting and Turning
2nd prize: Helen Randall, Pain

More: bethlemgallery.com/blog/art-fai...
December 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
📢 Announcing our #FoundersAwardWinners2025

Bethlem Gallery is delighted to share 2025 Founders Prize Award Winner: Beth Kale.

Read more: bethlemgallery.com/blog/founder...

Image 1: Beth Kale, The Stanley Night
Image 2: Our Director Sophie Leighton with the Founders Award Judge, MP Liam Conlon
December 11, 2025 at 11:03 AM