Milena's women's group are doing lots of printing on T-shirts, cotton bags and fabric whilst the men's group is much more into printing and processing paper to get colourful designs.
One patient has been really eager to work in acrylics on a stretched canvas. Here's his interpretation of Edvard Munch's 'The Scream'. He's really excited about working on more canvases in the future and plans to use his time off the ward to buy some more.
Milena's group have been looking at colour work by Howard Hodgkins and Picasso - looking forward to seeing what this inspires the group to create.
We have started to prepare one of the large canvases by painting it a sky like pale blue... I thought it might be interesting to just break the tension on that daunting white surface!
We also did some photography of hands to work into on the computer next week. So keep watching!
Quotes of note
Female Ward
“I look forward to next time!”
“Oh that looks beautiful!” – a patient astonished after she changed the printing colour on her bag.
“I am really pleased with this” Staff member admiring his shopping bag!
Male Ward
‘Can I work on a large canvas? I want to paint something really big’. Patient
‘I want to see what the computer does to my hand’. Patient
‘Oh they’re really lovely – amazing colours’ – staff referring to the prints we made.
What an amazing project. Excellent work. Well done to Kevin, Milena and everyone involved in making this happen and to all the artist and participants involved. Great stuff.
ReplyDeleteThank you! We hope to develop this work and build on what we've learnt over the weeks. It's been an project with lots of impact and food for thought!
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