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in this way has assuaged some of the guilt I still feel at not being able to be more directly
involved in healthcare during the pandemic.
My subjects have been varied: portraits, landscapes, florals, abstracts and animals. However,
I love painting people most. Although working with patients and looking at images of the body
for 40 years could explain this interest, it’s clear from my very first painting at the age of 12
that people were going to be a source of fascination to me.
Other experiences from my radiography career have also influenced my choices as an artist,
in particular my current ‘Subjectify’ series (fig 4). This attempts to entwine the person behind
(in front of?) the image, in all their abstracted individuality, along with their objective medical
image. These are the two worlds in which imaging professionals are required to practise, the
objective and the subjective, and we must never forget that they are both equally important.
Figure 4. Pictures from my Subjectify series
I’m now extending this work to include images with pathology. Obviously COVID-19 is ripe for
exploration so I’ve already made a couple of pieces exploring this idea.
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