'We've been wanting to do this exhibition for years'
A collection of "really relatable" and "inspiring" artwork by Charlotte Johnson Wahl, the mother of former prime minister Boris Johnson, is to go on display at the world's oldest psychiatric hospital.
Mr Gale told the PA news agency: "She was an artist in her own right who probably never achieved the recognition that she probably deserved in her lifetime outside her wide circle of friends and family, and her work is not widely represented in museum collections.""We've been wanting to do this exhibition for years, but it's probably truer to say that we never thought it would be possible because it would rely on being in networks that we maybe didn't have access to.
Despite the paintings' challenging subject matter, Mr Gale said Mrs Johnson Wahl "retained her sense of humour", particularly with the work Canteen With No Food, which depicted the hospital's dining area filled with patients with nothing to eat, because of her food phobia.
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