“The Fetal Medicine team and I wanted our clinic at Musgrove Hospital to have a positive impact on the way our patients think and feel. I believe that art helps transform stark clinical environments into warm, compassionate care spaces filled with inspiration.” Dr Katarina Harrison Tvarozkova MCROG - Lead Consultant Fetal Medicine.
We interview Constance Regardsoe, exciting emerging talent, already an award winner whose oil paintings offer the viewer pure escapism, something we all surely crave at the moment. An enthusiastic wild swimmer Constance has a longstanding fascination with water and uses it to express time and impermanence ideas.
"In all honesty, I was moved to tears, and very humbled by the selection of images that both doctors sent through to me. They responded with tremendous authenticity, both choosing to reveal the raw emotions this pandemic was asking of them. They showed the human beneath the hero label." #portraitsfornhsheroes
Award winning art. Pop icons and many others have been created by hand embroidering beads, buttons and charms, in some cases over 6,000 individual pieces including solid 24carat gold details.
"It is a confection of the patriarchy that must be confronted in order to bring back balance. As an artist and a woman, I am looking back, stepping into my own gaze, not to objectify but simply to love, to desire and to celebrate the beauty of a form that is not my own."