Edinburgh Art Fair 2014 - Children's Art with Art in Healthcare

I'm delighted to have been involved over the past few years with Edinburgh-based charity Art in Healthcare. As part of their excellent Outreach Programme I run workshops in various places including the Edinburgh Sick Kids Hospital and St Crispin's School for children with autism and severe learning difficulties. I'm on the Art in Healthcare Collection Committee, discussing decisions regarding their extensive collection of top-end Scottish art. A lot of the works you might see in hospitals and healthcare settings through the Lothians (and beyond) come from the here. More info - www.artinhealthcare.org.uk



2014 was my second year running children's workshops for Art in Healthcare at the Edinburgh Art Fair. This link shows the results of my 2013 visit. As last year we had an exhausting but inspiring - and extremely full - three days.

I was working alongside Hal, of the Edinburgh Art Shop, both of us with the invaluable assistance of many enthusiastic Art in Healthcare volunteers, and of course Amelia, victoria and Trevor from Art in Healthcare. All our materials were generously sponsored by GreatArt and by the Edinburgh Art Shop.



Here are a few of the artists and lots of their fantastic results:

feathery lion

flamingo

Pudsey

oil pastel fox

happy elephant

dino's!

fox family

toucan

by children who knew much more of marine life than I do. seals, porpoise, and more

seals (leopard?) & hammerhead shark

woodpecker family, female, male, juvenile

butterfly