Select Page

A Letter in Mind

A Letter in Mind (ALIM) is back for 2024! Our annual art fundraiser has become a much-loved highlight of our calendar. It’s a joyful, collaborative fundraiser that brings together artists, patients, clinicians, supporters and art lovers in a way that really does change lives.   

The idea is simple: use a plain, white envelope as your starting point to create an artwork based on a theme. All artworks will be priced at £85 and sold via our online gallery. The works will remain anonymous until they are sold; the names of the artists will be revealed at the end of the week-long ALIM exhibition, which kicks off on 29 October in London. 

All proceeds from sales help to transform life for the millions of people affected by neurological and neuromuscular conditions in the UK. Last year, we celebrated the 10th anniversary of ALIM and saw the total raised exceed £300,000 – an incredible amount.

 

The Wonder of Colour

The theme of this year’s exhibition has been picked by our fantastic community of contributing artists, who have chosen ‘The Wonder of Colour’. 

Most humans can see around one million different colours. The mechanics of how we perceive them is a wonder in itself; the eye and brain work together to translate light waves reflected off an object into a specific shade and tone. 

This miraculous process has enabled artists to depict and describe their subjects for millennia, precisely capturing the complexion of a loved-one, the vibrancy of an urban landscape, or the soft hues of our natural world. But the use of colour offers much more than just visual accuracy, it conveys emotions, messages and themes, and can transform the way we instinctively respond to a picture, object or space. 

Contributing artists

Each year hundreds of artists put time, effort and creativity into making unique artworks for ALIM. We are so grateful for the commitment of all contributing artists, some of whom have submitted work every year since the event launched in 2013! They come from across the UK and beyond, and include household names and professional artists, people who have been creating art for a lifetime and people who are just starting to dip their toe into drawing or painting.

Well-known contributors have included: Sir Grayson Perry, Axel Scheffler, Christopher Nolan CBE, Joe Lycett, Leigh Francis (Keith Lemon), Tracey Emin, Mark Gatiss, Morag and Ishbel Myerscough, Chantal Joffe, Indira Varma, Chris Riddell, and Dame Zandra Rhodes. 

Please join them in showing your support. We want to get as many artists involved as possible to help build on the success of our previous years please ask any family or friends who are creative to join in too! 

We can’t wait to see how you will use the wonder of colour in your artwork this year.

 

Where Next

Register
Gallery
FAQs

Get the latest news from The National Brain Appeal

GET IN TOUCH

Address

The National Brain Appeal
3rd Floor
Ormond House
26/27 Boswell Street
London WC1N 3JZ

020 3448 4724
info@nationalbrainappeal.org

Press enquiries

marie.mangan@nhs.net

 

Registered Charity No. 290173. A limited company registered in England. No. 01844281