Mary Barnes (artist)

Mary Barnes
Born
Mary Edith Barnes

(1923-02-09)9 February 1923
Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom
Died29 June 2001(2001-06-29) (aged 78)
Tomintoul, Scotland, United Kingdom
Known forPainting

Mary Edith Barnes (9 February 1923 – 29 June 2001) was an English artist and writer with schizophrenia and became a successful painter. She is particularly known for documenting her experience at R. D. Laing's experimental therapeutic community at Kingsley Hall, London. She is referenced in the book The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson and Thomas Szasz's Schizophrenia.