CHILDREN spending a long time on their backs in hospital were cheered up by eight paintings.
The paintings were put on the ceiling of Girdlestone ward at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford above the young patients’ beds in 1981.
They had to spend up to six weeks flat on their backs while curvatures of the spine were corrected.
The paintings were the work of Selena Beckett, Sarah Travis, Stephen Gordon, Emma Entwistle, Josephine Holmes and Rebecca Curran. They are pictured with patient Louise Townsend.
The subjects included dogs, aircraft, a pop group, a jungle and an underwater scene. The work was done at a weekend workshop run by artist Roland Gold at his studio in Walton Crescent, Oxford.
Louise, 13, who had been in bed for three weeks, said: “They are all lovely. They will certainly brighten the ward up.”
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