Margaret Carpenter Arnett’s Inspiring Introductory Guide to Art Therapy Praised by Reviewers for Incredible Art and Testimonies

Originally born and educated in England and trained there as a nurse, Margaret Carpenter Arnett has come a long way in her journey as an art therapist. This came about when her passion for the arts just could not keep itself from intermingling with her nursing background. For sixteen years she facilitated an art therapy group for cancer patients at the University of Washington Medical Center and trained other art therapists.

For over 40 years, she has pursued this calling and established a great reputation for both her artwork and her services in using art to help heal the mind.

She published a compilation of over 100 pieces that were made by people whom she had helped using art therapy with meditation. Its title is simply “The Art of the Inner Journey: Symbol as Healing Agent,” and Margaret intended this compilation to serve as an introductory guide to this particular aspect of art as therapy. Many reviews have since praised the book for its solid testimonies about the practice, and the helpful knowledge it shares with those who have yet to try.

Kirkus Reviews says the book: “is packed with detailed activities that art therapists can easily use in their own practices; such readers will feel confident they can lead a class with the information they glean from this book…”

Another review from BlueInk Review adds that it is “a clearly organized, practical guide to using the visual results of guided imagery via painting, drawing, collage, crayon, even dance and drama to understand the self, repair broken relationships, and heal from emotional trauma…”

Overall, curious readers and first-time students to art therapy will find plenty of resources in Margaret’s work that will help them get started on their own journey.

Those who would like to find a copy of “The Art of the Inner Journey: Symbol as Healing Agent” can easily find it available at several online bookstores, including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and the ReadersMagnet Bookstore. Margaret Carpenter Arnett also shares more of both her artwork and her work as a therapist at https://www.margaretcarpenterarnett.com/.

Author Bio Margaret Carpenter Arnett BSN, ATR was born and educated in England and has lived most of her adult life in the western United States. Artist, art therapist, teacher, and writer, she is an accomplished and talented painter. Primarily a watercolorist, Margaret now works with pastel, mixed media, and collage. She is a signature member of the Northwest Pastel Society and has participated in juried and invitational shows in California and the northwest, and is involved with the Museum of Northwest Art.

Combining her art and nursing backgrounds, Margaret became an art therapist in !983 and led an art therapy support group at the University of Washington Cancer Center for sixteen years. She has worked as an art therapist in the community at large for the past forty years, and currently leads a group in Visual Journaling at La Conner Senior Center.

Believing that art facilitates healing both through self-expression, and as a key to the door of the unconscious mind, she wrote and published “The Art of the Inner Journey” in 2011 in black and white, now reprinted in full color in 2024. Her memoirs “Invisible Threads” were published in 2022.

“The Art of the Inner Journey: Symbol as Healing Agent”
Author: Margaret Carpenter Arnett, BSN, ATR
Published date: December 8, 2023
Publisher: ReadersMagnet
Genre: Self-Help

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