Outsider art is a term that covers a wide range of styles and forms that have in common the fact that they come from places where you may not ordinarily expect to find art. It does not denote a particular movement, or tendency, but rather a kind of shared feeling among individuals mostly separated by time and space; namely, an intuitive reaction to the creative urge to communicate. Crucially, this is art that usually originates, and even sometimes circulates, in contexts that either know nothing of the art world, or care nothing for it. In the past, these contexts have included whole communities living remotely from large urban centres, the drawing rooms of spiritualists, the wards of closed psychiatric hospitals, and even private dwellings of individuals living more or less in social isolation. {read}