Welcome to Marcus Paintings
Marcus Paintings is a web-site created for and by the psychotherapist and painter Marcus Price who is based in Kent UK.
Exhibition of paintings at The Tavistock Centre, Belsize Park London. November 25th to December 24th 2025.
Captivity and Freedom
The paintings in this collection are largely free associative musings that sometimes reflect conflicting themes in my life: I wrestle with the institutions that pervade peoples lives and that congeal into the images, almost as fast as I try to escape by painting over them. It is an inevitable theme having spent most of my life working for healthcare organisations. Realising that all relationships can bring captivity and freedom, I gain the emotional energy to paint while in the vicinity of the people whom I love and this perhaps overflows into my love of painting. I often paint during an alternative large group hosted in India which is attended by people from many different countries.
Large group work has its own theory base and can assist people in making links between the personal and the political. Tuning into the group from my garden studio by zoom and responding in paint to the many personal and cultural struggles, it is unsurprising that troubling existential issues such as war and climate change seem to flow through the work. However, Such interpretations can limit possibilities or even be a distraction for the viewer rather than an aid to meaning. It is common for people to find temporary reassurance in diagnostic titles but for me, it is the implicit tensions in the images that carry meaning. Like dreams, the paintings contain multiple meanings and it brings me a lot of pleasure when people tell me about my paintings and help me discover them.
Many of the paintings on this site are for sale and you are welcome to make enquires, even if they don’t appear in the store section. They are mostly oil paintings and currently sell somewhere in excess of £500. Some smaller works may be less.
Marcus has recently illustrated a Novel by Group Analyst Mike Tait, entitled, “The Visitors, A Journey of Questions in Words and Paintings.” The Novel is a powerful commentary on contemporary institutions. The Visitors are possibly extra terrestrial although this is never explicitly stated. The Visitors bring together different characters, helping them consider the bizarre pathways of their experiences, challenging social and institutional forces that govern their lives.
