{"id":441,"date":"2010-11-21T13:43:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T13:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghislainehoward.com\/admin\/"},"modified":"2016-05-15T08:18:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T08:18:06","slug":"the-geriatric-unit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ghislainehoward.com\/admin\/art-paintings-drawings\/the-human-condition\/the-geriatric-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"The Geriatric Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shire Hill<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a>
\nOld man on the ward<\/strong> 1992<\/span>
\nOil on canvas<\/span>
\n102cm x 61cm<\/span>
\n40″ x 24″<\/span><\/td>\n		\"\"<\/a>
\nThe corridor<\/strong> 1993<\/span>
\nOil on canvas<\/span>
\n122cm x 183cm<\/span>
\n48″ x 72″<\/span><\/td>\n		\"\"<\/a>
\nWoman with zimmer frame<\/strong> 1993<\/span>
\nOil on canvas<\/span>
\n127cm x 102cm<\/span>
\n50″ x 40″<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Almost at the very moment<\/strong> 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.<\/span>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.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n

A large amount of time<\/strong> was spent talking, reassuring and drawing the men and women I found there.\u00a0 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

– Ghislaine Howard<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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