I'LL BE DOING THIS SKY IN MY DREAMS TONIGHT
This document is about validating the importance of creative expression of people who are living within a hospital context. It is based on the assumption that art is about values, beliefs, identity, expression and communication and as such should be a fundamental right of every individual, regardless of whether they are in hospital or not.
This document is about validating the importance of creative expression of people who are living within a hospital context. It is based on the assumption that art is about values, beliefs, identity, expression and communication and as such should be a fundamental right of every individual, regardless of whether they are in hospital or not.
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It’s hard to dispel the myth that we’re<br />
therapists. We are artists who have<br />
made a choice to spend time working<br />
here at the hospice. We are not here to<br />
analyse. For us this is not a therapeutic<br />
practice but an artistic practice. Our<br />
discussions with patients are about<br />
colour and light and materials. Each<br />
time I look at the walls of this room, I<br />
see extraordinary stories. Over there<br />
I can see the sun setting over the loch<br />
painted by someone who has a brain<br />
tumour. The landscape next to it was<br />
painted by a man who has just relearnt<br />
to use his left hand. That series of small<br />
paintings have been done by someone<br />
who has lost all verbal skills and needed<br />
a way to say thank you to her carers. Not<br />
long ago, we were visited by a man who<br />
wanted to collect his mother’s paintings.<br />
She had died some weeks previous<br />
to his visit and he said it was the only<br />
legacy he had of her. There is a lot of<br />
colour and a lot of laughter in this room.<br />
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