Patricia Townsend is an artist working with video, photography and installation. She is also a writer on the artist’s creative process. Her book Creative States of Mind: Psychoanalysis and the Artist’s Process was published in 2019. As an artist, she is interested in the interface between landscape or natural phenomena and the internal world of the imagination. She received an Arts Council award to exhibit her latest work Black Sun, Blue Light at Brantwood, Ruskin’s former home on Lake Coniston (Nov 2018 to Feb 2019).