Bryan Charnley (1949–1991) was a British painter whose deeply personal work chronicled his journey through paranoid schizophrenia. After early success with photorealistic flower paintings, he shifted to symbolic, hallucinatory self-portraits in the late ’80s. In 1989 he held a solo show at Dryden Street Gallery, followed by a feature in the Royal College of Art’s 'Visions' exhibition in 1990. His iconic 17-part 'Self-Portrait' series, created while tapering his medication, was posthumously exhib