Capturing the human psyche: Charles Lutyens’ paintings at Bethlem Museum of the Mind

A pair of dark, wide eyes stares out at visitors as they pass by, but not judging or scary, but with youthful vigour. This is the very young Charles Lutyen, an artist but, more than that, a therapist who helped people suffering from mental health problems turn to art for support.Charles Lutyens, born in London in 1933, studied oil painting and sculpture at the Chelsea, Slade and St Martin’s schools of art, before initially settling at the Fabyc community — a sort of London kibbutz, a