A Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre patient has donated her “best painting” to the centre as a thank you to the team that have been caring for her.
And Helen Steel’s artwork – A New Day Dawns – will be displayed in the centre’s link corridor to Gartnavel General along with other works by patients and staff.
Helen, who was first treated at the Beatson in 2002, said: “I started sketching during lockdown. A friend studied painting and did an art class. They suggested I should join them.
“I can’t even draw a straight line – and I still can’t!
“But it’s more than an art class – it’s a spiritual class, it’s a coffee morning, it’s a putting the world to rights morning – I don’t know what I’d do without it.
“I was giving paintings as Christmas presents and I wanted to give the nurses a thank you gift.
“People who saw the painting said it was one of my best, and I just wanted to give the nurses something as they’ve given me so much love and care in the years they’ve looked after me.”
Beatson Clinical Services manager Margaret Gray said: “We’re delighted to have Helen’s painting and it will be a wonderful addition to our welcoming environment
“Art and creative activities can be a great help patients, giving them a way to help process some elements of what they are going through, whether they are painting or writing poetry themselves or seeing what others have done, which may even inspire them to get creative themselves.”