Racing Lines
Art by Maxine Dodd
Frosty morning Sunrise
I just looked back on my post for New Year 2020, only to discover that I posted a picture of a frosty morning sunrise; a view of our garden down to the little apple tree where the birds feed. This morning, it was just the same, a beautiful sunrise, with the light filtering through the trees and birds feeding beneath the apple tree. I…
Thursday #3 – Green aprons
Clap for our carers, Thursday evenings 8pm
Hospital – 3
More drawings capturing NHS at work, see more…
Thursday #1 – ‘Resus is a high level PPE area’
The initiative to clap for carers officially came to a close last week – so I wanted to offer a gesture of support to everyone providing continued, dedicated service by publishing a picture on Thursdays at 8pm, the time we all came out to clap. This image is a study drawing, made in oil pastel and ink, of doctors and nurses entering resus through…
Hospital – 2
At the start of the Lockdown, the BBC were allowed to film the staff and patients at the Royal Free Hospital in London, a huge hospital that specialises in contagious diseases. The resulting footage was made into two special programmes called, ‘Hospital’ which were broadcast on Monday and Tuesday – Week 8 of Lockdown. The drawings and paintings shown here are based on images…
Hospital
It’s hard to know where to begin… what a time it has been and will continue to be. Everything turned upside down. Tranquility where there was turmoil, confusion where there was certainty. Every news bulletin brings a new story and a new facet to the crisis. At the beginning of the year, my mum was admitted to Leicester Royal Infirmary and subsequently the Glenfield…
