The artwork in the logo for the Journal Star's mental health series is an acrylic painting, "Dreamback the Elder," by Nigel Magor.
It was painted in 2013 during a time when Magor was working on a comic book series featuring characters called dreambacks, with two ears on each side of the head, bifurcated eyeballs and receptors to receive messages.
Magor, an art major in college before he dropped out because of mental health issues, was an early member of Artists on the Edge, a group of artists with mental health issues.
Some members are professionally trained artists, whose mental health struggles interrupted their aspirations, said Dean Settle, who started the group around 20 years ago when he was director of the Lancaster County Mental Health Center.Ìý
Other members of the group are visionaries or intuitive artists who have no formal training but who discovered art was their path out of the disabling thoughts and behaviors brought on by mental illness and brain injuries.
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Settle operates Metro Gallery, 1316 N St., where work by Magor and other Artists on the Edge members can be viewed.