Using art to help people who've suffered mental or physical trauma - that's the ambition of Wellington based visual artist and poet Maisie Chilton. She knows full well the power of art to heal. Maisie has cerebral palsy and PTSD - post traumatic stress disorder, following a sexual assault. But creating her own art has helped her through some tough times, including facing repressed trauma. Maisie is one of this year's young artists who've been shoulder-tapped by the Arts Foundation. She was offered a Springboard Award, that includes being mentored by an alumni - in her case visual artist Julia Morrison. And she is about to unveil an exhibition called Where Does It Hurt? Lynn Freeman asked her if writing and painting have always gone hand in hand for her? Maisie Chilton's exhibition Where does it hurt? opens on the 3rd of July at Toi Poneke Gallery in Wellington.