Our research clearly shows art helps health, Bruce-Gordon said. Most patients' comments in the book are anonymous for privacy reasons. I'm receiving chemo and wanted to let you know how lovely it is to have art in the waiting area, says one. It reminds me that there is a life after cancer.
Another talks of being in and out of hospital, and stopping to look at one painting, Heavy Seas by Ken Symonds. It has given me a lot of calm before my appointments. I hope I can recover and go to the sea itself.
When you come to a hospital, you come for difficult reasons, said Peter Wilkinson, a consultant cardiologist at Ashford and St Peter's Trust, Kent. His hospital has some Warhol prints. They take your mind off your concerns.
A new book produced by the charity Paintings in Hospitals (PiH), which has a collection of 3,500 works and prints, including by Andy Warhol, Maggi Hambling and Bridget Riley, in medical settings across the UK, contains feedback from dozens of patients and medical staff about the invaluable benefits of seeing the art.
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