Arts Trails - City
Nautical Boat Print, Ernest Audibert
Location: South Corridor, City Hospital
Ernest Audibert is a provincial artist, born in 1922. His works are characterised by soft and deep colours of his region in Marseille, France.
His landscapes are brushed in generous, colourful and diverse strokes which avoid black. Such vast range of colours highlight the areas of shadows and light as well as create a soft atmosphere of the Mediterranean coast.
Read Nautical Boat Print, Ernest Audibert…La Paille Dorée
Location: South Corridor, City Hospital
André Bourrié is a self-taught French painter, born in 1936.
His works combine pointillism (using small dots to create patterns) and neo-impressionism. They describe a calm, beautiful, and peaceful world. Such impression of serenity in Bourrié's art correlates to great nostalgia as he lost both of his parents as a child, during the Second World War.
Read La Paille Dorée…Seven Colours
Location: North Corridor, City Hospital
Artist, Michael Rothenstein, and Poet, Edward Lucie-Smith,
specially produced screen prints and woodcuts.
Council House, Neil Tarn
Location: North Corridor, City Hospital
A sketch of Nottingham Council House by Neil Tarn.
Read Council House, Neil Tarn…Multiple seaside photographs
Location: North Corridor, City Hospital
At the end of a storm is a golden sky
It’s quiet and peaceful,
The sound of the waves makes all your problems go away
Gives me a chill vibe
The wild beauty makes me happy
while the sky hints at stormy times to come.
It makes me think of life
The birds and the sea and
People relaxing, might be fishing or wading
There are lots of different birds at the sea
On the shore as well as in the air
I wish I was in the sea on a surfboard
I used to do surfing, when I was a kid
The last time I did it
Was when I was in the army
It reminds me of fishing trips
With my uncle
It reminds me of Scarborough,
of St Agnes, Cornwall
It reminds me of our favourite beach,
of Devon and Dorset and Northumberland
It reminds me of holidays,
Brings back childhood memories
Colourful and lots to see
Small waves lapping
Happy days.
I love the energy of the waves
The light is fantastic
And the sea looks so good,
Unspoilt coastline
Looks peaceful
With no people around
Perhaps we all love the sea,
Because that’s where we came from
Read Multiple seaside photographs…Collaborative Mosaic Series
Location: North Corridor, City Hospital
A collaborative mosaic series with Nottingham artist, Annie Mae Ditchfield, to give Critical Care staff the opportunity to reflect on their experiences of working throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.
The mosaics are predominantly made up of recycled and kindly donated tiles from Awn Surface Design Studio (Sneinton), CDT Tiles (Lenton), B&Q (Riverside) as well as from Nottingham community residents.
The piece that you see here at City Hospital is a photograph of the one produced by staff in the Critical Care Department, City Hospital.
The project produced three pieces:
Piece 1: Support
The central image depicts a staff member being supported by another member of the team in the height of the pandemic. Surrounding is a series of tiles portraying factors that staff reported helped them get through this period including ; family, talking, pets, exercise and duty alongside single word responses summarising their experiences on receded layers
Piece 2: Strength
The central image illustrates two staff members standing strong in unity despite challenges faced. Staff members designed the left figure to have a red sore nose to reflect the physical marks left on their faces from PPE and for both figures to have ‘blurry PPE goggles’ that would steam up and be difficult to see through. Surrounding the central image is a series of square tiles visualising factors that helped staff members get through the pandemic including ; "getting outside, seeking professional help and kindly donated food
Piece 3: Teamwork
A series of interlocking hands signifying the teamwork on the Critical Care Wards throughout the pandemic. Surrounding the central hands are tiles to reflect staff’s feedback on what helped them get through the pandemic including; switching the news off, music, hugs and walking.
Sun in Moonset, Melina Monhart
Location: North Corridor, City Hospital
Melina Monhart - Inspired by the artist’s desire to capture the relationship that we have with nature, how it affects our emotions and who we are.
Melina or ‘Lina Hart’ is an inspirational artist, originally from the north of Transylvania, raised by her paternal grandfather who was the first and main artistic influence in her life, and who was a master church artist, leaving behind a work of over 60 churches.
His work sites in churches were where she had her very first encounters with the magic of the creative process.
In Lina’s practice, painting is a secret path to invite the viewer into her visions, where with what is being intuitively transmitted, the viewer re-experiences the synapses of her emotional and spiritual mind-sphere. She likes to think of her paintings as ambassadors of light.
Read Sun in Moonset, Melina Monhart…