GHISLAINE
HOWARD
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Old man on the ward 1992 Oil on canvas 102cm x 61cm 40" x 24" |
The corridor 1993 Oil on canvas 122cm x 183cm 48" x 72" |
Woman with zimmer frame 1993 Oil on canvas 127cm x 102cm 50" x 40" |
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Almost at the very moment of the birth of my first child I felt an immediate and instinctive knowledge fall upon me - an awareness of my place, and that of my child, within the cycle of life; the reality of a new life entering the world summoned up an almost palpable realisation of my own mortality and the fragility of existence itself. Perhaps as a means of coming to terms with this, I deliberately decided to spend some time working within a geriatric unit at Shire Hill Hospital in Glossop. A large amount of time was spent talking,
reassuring and drawing the men and women I found there. I hope the
paintings speak for themselves; as I was celebrating my son Max learning
to walk, so I was witnessing the profound care and skill of the nurse helping
an elderly patient re-learning after a stroke the very skills that she
too had once learned so many years before.
- Ghislaine Howard
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Ghislaine Howard Studio Gallery