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Art in Healthcare...
We Believe in The Healing Influence of Artwork

I’ve managed to get some text together for you that hopefully you can work with a little.

I’ve also added some information about the Prestigious Print

The artist’s talk on the 24th.
Tickets cost £9 with all monies going to the charity.

The arts within healthcare is essential, as you reiterated to me explaining your personal connection, and slowly we, as an organisation, are making positive changes to educating people as to how important the arts are within both our culture and within the healing environment.

Your input helps our work become even more impacting.



Art in Healthcare

We are a small, national charity that was set up as Paintings in Hospitals Scotland in 1991 and became Art in Healthcare in 2005.

It began as a sister charity of the national Paintings in Hospitals, in order to provide works of arts of high quality by artists, both established and emerging, to hang in hospitals and healthcare buildings throughout Scotland.

1300 works of art
over 850 works in 60 hospitals and healthcare units across the whole of Scotland.

Almost 20 years later we now have a collection of over 1300 works of art, which we offer to healthcare environments for a nominal fee. We currently have over 850 works on display in 60 hospitals and healthcare units across the whole of Scotland.

At Art in Healthcare we believe in the healing influence of artwork.

We are particularly interested in how the promotion of health and wellbeing can be achieved in health­care’s physical environment and we do this through a curated picture rental scheme that gives hospitals affordable access to a prestigious collection of original Scottish artworks.

We work to raise awareness about the benefits of art to the health of the individual and in healthcare settings by running events and tours of artistic and health-related spaces,
  • holding lectures,
  • giving talks,
  • helping to fund artists’ projects in hospitals and
  • building links between artists and healthcare organisations.

    Quotes:

    “Works from our collection are seen by tens of thousands of people every year. We know that art can enhance the healing process and can help people who may be feeling anxious. We hope that our efforts make healthcare buildings a better place for patients, visitors and staff.” ... Trevor Jones Assistant Director, AiH

    “It’s a philosophy about caring, and caring has a lot of different facets to it. Everybody’s got pictures on their walls at home, so why should we offer some of the most compromised people in society bare walls?” ... Dr. Rajan Madhok Head of Rheumatology, Glasgow Royal Infirmary

    “I have been visiting my mother in the Infirmary every day for the past week and I have found the pictures—particularly Wilhelmina Barns-Graham

    —very comforting and encouraging. Pictures like these make a big difference to visitors’ and patients’ experience of the Infirmary. Thank you and keep up the good work.” ... Edward Kellow


    Trevor Jones, Assistant Director for Art in Healthcare

    Originally from Canada, I set out in 1996 with a backpack and a love for adventure. Three years and four continents later I found myself in Scotland... and I still haven't quite managed to make it home yet.

    In 2008 I graduated from Edinburgh University with an MA (Hons) Fine Art in Drawing and Painting and I now manage my time between painting and exhibiting, working for the charity Art in Healthcare, and teaching at Leith School of Art.


    Art in Healthcare Presents

    Flowers For Frida

    By

    John Brown

    Acclaimed artist, John Brown has created the newest Prestigious Print for our annual art fundraising drive. Inspired by a recent trip to Mexico, Flowers For Frida exemplifies Brown’s distinctive, colourful and expressive style.

    This exquisite artwork, hand-printed at Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop from 15 screens, is available in a signed and limited edition of 75.

    Those purchasing the print will acquire a picture by an artist of the highest quality whose work is in many public and private collections throughout the world.

    A launch event showcasing the print and featuring a talk by John Brown will be held at
    Out of the Blue Drill Hall
    on Dalmeny Street, Edinburgh,
    7pm, 24 June 2010.

    Tickets are £9.00 each.

    Please book as soon as possible, by sending a cheque made payable to Art in Healthcare and a stamped addressed envelope, to Art in Healthcare.

    Please send me ……. tickets for Flowers For Frida, @ £9.00 each £….

    I enclose a donation for £….
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    Cheque enclosed in favour of Art in Healthcare £…..



    Name……………………………………………………..

    Address …………………………………………………..

    …………………………………………………………….


    Telephone………………………………………………



    Flowers for Frida

    By John C Brown

    Acclaimed artist, John C Brown has created the newest Prestigious Print for Scottish charity Art in Healthcare’s annual art fundraising drive.

    Inspired by a recent trip to Mexico, Flowers for Frida exemplifies Brown’s distinctive, colourful and expressive style. Warm hues of red, orange and pink, reflective of the Mexican landscape and culture intermingle and balance with darker tones, while a sketch of Frida Kahlo sits to the right of a vase overflowing with flowers.

    This artwork has been printed by hand at Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop from 15 screens, is 77 x 56 cm and is available in a signed and limited edition of 75 for £295.

    Talk comparing the printmaking experience with his painting techniques

    You are invited to view the new print and to listen to John Brown give a unique and informative talk comparing the printmaking experience with his painting techniques. A must see for any art enthusiast interested in learning more about the artist’s creative process,

    tickets will be on sale for £9 from Art in Healthcare.

    The talk will be held at Out of the Blue Drill Hall on Dalmeny Street, Edinburgh, 7pm, 24 June 2010.

    For more information about the print or for tickets to the John Brown talk please contact Art in Healthcare. www.artinhealthcare.org.uk

    e: tjones@artinhealthcare.org.uk t: 0131 555 7638

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