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I was awarded second prize winner of Sudbury Community Health Centre Art Competition and the art work has been permanently installed at the newly built state of the art health centre built in my old home town of Sudbury in Suffolk and  the largest  health facility in the region. My piece was a four panelled, large- scale painting/collage entitled 'Visions of Sudbury' and was awarded £1500 by the NHS West Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group.

 

 

The criteria for the work was to create a piece of art work that would emulate nature, bringing the ‘outside in’, and ideally depict the Sudbury country side area. It would also evoke a feeling of well-being to the patients and staff . A palette was set to work from to match the décor of the building. The art work could be in any medium but would be eventually installed as a two dimensional wall-covering.

Visions of Sudbury 2nd place competition winner receiving £1500 from NHS and permanently installed at Sudbury Community Health Centre in 2014

Until recently, I had lived in Sudbury all my life, so I decided to encompass in the art work all those  scenes I fondly remember, for instance Sudbury town centre and its market, including the Thomas Gainsborough statue, St Gregory's church, where the head of Simon of Sudbury resides and Little Cornard close to where Gainsborough was thought to have painted his famous 'Cornard Wood'. The Croft is the centre piece, divided between panels two and three because it is the place that I miss the most.

 

The scenes are painted with acrylic over four strips of 60” high wallpaper embossed with an elaborate leaf design. The wallpaper was first primed using a gold leave colour for the embossed leaves and a pink colour for the background. I have stuck on broken leaves painted with gold acrylic to depict trees in each of the panels. I used gold as I wanted it to match the décor of the hospital surroundings, its glow representing the golden splendour of nature throughout the season. I added wool to represent Sudbury's strong medieval history as one of the major Wool Towns in East Anglia and bits of thread to depict its weaving history in the 18th and 19th centuries.  Knowing the final piece would be displayed as a 2D digital image gave me the opportunity to experiment with collage, with the objects flattened and refined in the process.  The use of wallpaper resonates a sense of homeliness and cosiness, ‘bringing nature inside’.

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