Location: Bolton Museum and Art Gallery, Le Mans Crescent, Bolton, BL1 1SE
Ghislaine Howard will be doing an Artist’s Talk at Bolton Museum and Art Gallery on 1st May about the two paintings she has on display there.
The compelling artworks capture patients and staff in the Well-Being Hub at Bolton Hospice.
The paintings are the result of Ghislaine's year-long association with the Hospice, which began in 2023.
She spent time talking to and observing patients and staff at the site on Queens Park Street.
She was particularly drawn to the activities in the Well-Being Hub where people with life-limiting conditions can come to socialise and enjoy therapies and occupational activities of various kinds.
The two paintings on display in Bolton Museum and Art Gallery have been selected from a group of works Ghislaine produced in response to the intimate moments of care she witnessed at the hospice.
One of the reasons Ghislaine wanted to work at Bolton Hospice was because of her awareness of Barbara Hepworth’s painting The Magnifying Glass (1948), which is on display next to her two pictures at Bolton Museum and Art Gallery.
Hepworth’s striking image of an ear operation was created in the year that the NHS was founded.
The talk is free and there is no need to book.
For more information on the two paintings that are the subject of the talk, click here.
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