Art Works - QMC

Location: E Floor, QMC

Perfect Training (1979), Welcome Intrusion (1979), Antique-cat (1978), Sudden Gust (1978), A Snip in Time, Escape

Terrence Warren is a Surrey-born (1948) printmaker who studied at Guildford School of Art and West Surrey College of Art and Design.

Read Multiple artworks, Terrence Warren…

Location: D Floor, West Block, QMC

Mick Bensley was born in Sheringham, on the North Norfolk coast. Growing up by the North Sea, Bensley developed a profound understanding of its many moods and adverse weather conditions, producing his first watercolourpaintings of maritime rescues. The descriptions of the rescues, impossible feats against overwhelming odds and the selfless courage of the men who crew lifeboats inspired and motivated him to paint this subject.

He was a student at Norwich School of Art, after which he worked in London for 15 years as a designer and illustrator. Throughout the seventies he continued to paint maritime watercolours and oils and in 1980 returned to Norfolk to paint professionally, gaining a reputation as a marine artist of skill and accuracy, with paintings in private collections around the world.

“....it takes some two and a half years to complete a quantity of working drawings, sketches and paintings. Research usually begins through reading RNLI reports or being fortunate enough to find someone who was involved in the incident. Whilst reading a description of a rescue I find myself undertaking a thumbnail sketch and, more often than not, this usually forms the basis of a finished painting. From the thumbnails sketch a much more detailed working drawing is made concentrating of the run of the sea and the action of the crew and their boat. “

He now lives and works overlooking the sea in Rottingdean on the Sussex Coast, dividing his time between painting (in oils, watercolour and pastels) and teaching watercolour technique and methods.

Read Seascapes, Mick Bensley…

Location: D Floor, QMC

A collection of watercolours by various artists including Richard Ackerman and  Sue Kavanagh.

Sue Kavanagh studied Fine Arts at the Byam Shaw School of Art and then worked for BBC Television doing animations then illustrations for Odhams Press.

Sue likes working with watercolours as it is a medium that suits her. Used with delicacy and sensitivity, it can show slight nuances in the ever changing light, shadow and atmosphere seen in nature and the varied effects on the most ordinary everyday objects.

 

Arts Trails

Pink flowers / window box / wooden shutters with hearts cut through	shade my tender heart healing will blossom in time –  roots grow in the dark
A courtyard with arched windows. Lush greenery. A wrought iron painted table and chairs – five empty chairs and a jug on the table.	reach out and find your  loved ones; quench a tender thirst – five empty chairs wait
A single window with a wooden shutter. Mass of rubeckia growing right outside. Big rhubarb type leaves. Red and pink flowers lower down.	paint the sunlit day cherished lightweight memories are feather soft petals
Inside a conservatory or glasshouse. Doors open onto further doors. Red shrubby lush plants. Paving stones, smooth on the floor.	one step at a time doors open to further doors –  you will find the way
An ornamental fountain in a tiled space. It’s to look at not to go in. Trees grow outside. You probably need the shade. Streams of water trickle down.	waiting and hoping –  streams of kindness trickle down gentle patterned light
A cello waits for someone to sit in the chair and play it. The music stand is too high. A patterned rug and amazing house plants. Piles of books. Tall windows. Probably a conservatory.	inside every book the end of another story harmony awaits
Outside, by a stretch of water. An iron bench with a wooden seat. Tall red flowers and the spreading branches of a low tree. Dappled shade on a hot day. There’s a distant shore.	sitting together dappled shade on a hot day tales from the far shore
A big wicker basket of flowers on a wooden bench. Someone’s cut them from the garden to make the display.	nurture dreams and hope in every human life  new petals unfurl
A big wicker basket of fruit. Apples or peaches and a pineapple. Next to it some plums and a bowl of strawberries. A small flowering plant grows next to them. There’s a red scarf under. They’re all on the windowsill and the window has a brass finger pull – it's a sash window.	don’t keep life outside pull the window open wide   a warm breeze flows in

 

 

 

Can you write your own haiku? Here’s one to get you started.

paint the sunlit day

cherished lightweight memories

are feather soft petals

Read A Series of Watercolour Paintings…

Location: B Floor, QMC

Two works featuring bicycles. These works sparked a staff member's memory of cycling to work.

Bike to Work

The shiny bike of confidence struggles to climb the hill, The obstinate bike of courage balances through the potholes, The rhythmic bike of serenity flows along the home straight, The light bike of speed flings me from its seat, My embarrassed juddering body, determined to get to work. A member of staff responded to this picture with this poem about falling off her bike on the way to work. Thankfully, she didn’t arrive in an ambulance that day!

Do you like to ride a bike?

These bright prints were popular with lots of staff, patients and visitors, especially those who have enjoyed riding a bike. Trips out with family, regular commuting or racing at speed - cycling is a fun and satisfying part of many people’s lives:

If I was in the picture I would be at the front, driven to want to win the race after all the training I have put in. If I was in this picture, I would also be the cyclist No. 63: fun in character. I like the bold use of colour but also the cheeky fun use of there’s always one character who is a joker.

I like the punchy colours and you can picture yourself on the bike.

I’ve got happy memories of riding my bike when I were a kid, but I haven’t ridden a bike for years now.

At Sherwood Pines it’s great for cycling. There are ramps too, I go with my grand-children and it’s a bit frightening when you get to the top – full adrenaline speeding down again! I’ve got to do it, just to keep up with them.

Comments like these inspired us to make a new version of a well-known rhyme:

Ride, ride, ride your bike,

Quickly down the path,

Speedily, speedily, speedily, speedily,

It’s fun to go so fast.

 

Ride, ride, ride your bike,

Slowly down the lane,

Cheerily, cheerily, cheerily, cheerily,

Cycling keeps me sane!

Could you time how long it takes you to get to the next art work?

Ride, ride, ride your bike,

Quickly down the path,

Speedily, speedily, speedily, speedily,

It’s fun to go so fast.

 

Ride, ride, ride your bike,

Slowly down the lane,

Cheerily, cheerily, cheerily, cheerily,

Cycling keeps me sane!

 

Can you have a go at writing your own third verse of the rhyme?

Read The Cyclists, Reg Cartwright and Unknown…

Arts Pioneer who put quality art and women artists on the walls of Nottingham Hospitals. Edna Eguchi Read was an influential arts administrator who championed art for the citizens of her local town of Milton Keynes. Her Japanese father was interned during WW2 and later deported. She never saw him again. Read was resourceful, ambitious and driven, her early childhood experiences seemingly an influence, and when the New Town of Milton Keynes was being planned she was instrumental in persuading the Development Corporation to include an art provision in its budget. She helped to establish Milton Keynes gallery (AIM), now renamed the MK9 Gallery, which provides a platform for local artists to exhibit their work.

Read brought this determination and zeal to her role at Queen’s Medical Centre. Although scanty, from information that we have been able to piece together, Edna worked for the Queen’s Medical Centre employed on a ‘ retainer’, where she advised and directed the arts provision at the hospital. During the early 1980’s, Read in partnership with the East Midlands Arts Association who donated funds under the ‘Arts in Public Places’ scheme, purchased more than fifty works of art. She led on consultation with members of staff regarding the newly installed art and negotiated free prints donated to the hospital by Christie’s Art Gallery in London. We surmise that it was Edna who championed the work of women artists, unusual for the time. Commissioned art works by renowned artists such as Gillian Wise, Mary Fedden and Elizabeth Frink, are due to the efforts of Read.

Read Edna Read (1929-2012)…

Location: B Floor, QMC

The corridor panels are all handmade, mouth-blown, antique stained glass, hand painted and acid etched then bonded to toughened safety glass. The footbridge has digitally printed glass for both sides.

The scheme was designed to create an uplifting environment through the innovative use of glass, transforming the existing environment and screening out views of the hospital's goods yard.

“I decided to create a distinct identity for the hospital's B floor 'Central Route', through the introduction of a series of specially designed glass panels, aiding way finding for patients, visitors and staff. The images are based on plants and herbs used in ancient healing processes.”

Read The Healing Windows, Martin Donlan (2006)…