The Collection: Location Level 2
Discover artworks exhibited on Level 2 of Milton Keynes University Hospital, within the main corridors and courtyard spaces. Including works by Artists Boyd and Evans, Rochelle Bomberg, Bill Billings and Roger Limouse.
With over 450 works we continue to catalogue and add our collection online to share with as many of you as possible.
Browse the Level 2 collections below ︎︎︎
Painting | Level 2
Boyd & Evans
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Long Strand, 1996, Oil on Canvas, Boyd and Evans
© Boyd and Evans. Photo credit: Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, art collection.
Boyd & Evans believe that the life of a painting depends on what the viewer brings to it and that words can ‘damage’ paintings.
They use photography as sketchbooks. Their images are composite, reformed from photographs, pictures or situations they have observed and documented, designed to both tell a story but to lead the viewer to create their own narrative.
The artists have been long term supporters and actively involved in the hospital art collection and arts programme - you can find many other artworks kindly on loan throughout the hospital. Their large scale photographic work Inside Out (2017) welcomes you to the main entrance of the Hospital.
Inside Out is a photographic work; on the wall side, 240 separate frames digitally joined to make one image and on the window side a complex collage, all assembled to create a stunning woodland park for visitors to the hospital. The work is compiled of photographs taken from across Milton Keynes and surrounding areas and celebrates Milton Keynes Development Corporation’s original concept of a ‘City in a Forest’. Inside Out was commissioned by Arts for Health Milton Keynes, supported by Milton Keynes Council, for the opening of the new main entrance in 2018 and was printed and installed by Format, Milton Keynes.
Fionnuala Boyd and Les Evans (Boyd & Evans) have been working collaboratively since 1968. One of their most well-known pieces in Milton Keynes is Fiction, Non-fiction and Reference in the Central Library.
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Painting | Level 2
Rachelle Bomberg
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Flower Energy is from a series exploring the nature of reality and the energy that radiates from things – in this instance a flower.
Rachelle Bomberg was born in London in 1950. After years of travel and international exhibitions, she opened her own gallery studio in Muizenberg, Cape Town, South Africa.
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Rachelle Bomberg
Flower Energy, 1990, oil on canvas, Rachelle Bomberg
© The artist. Photo credit: Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, art collection.
Flower Energy is from a series exploring the nature of reality and the energy that radiates from things – in this instance a flower.
Rachelle Bomberg was born in London in 1950. After years of travel and international exhibitions, she opened her own gallery studio in Muizenberg, Cape Town, South Africa.
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Textiles | Level 2 | Commission
Siripan Kidd
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Siripan Kidd
Milton Keynes 1, 1991, Silk, Siripan Kidd
Siripan Kidd is an artist from Thailand who combines the unique sheen of silk with her 'rice grain' stitches, giving her work an almost painted quality.
Like the quilt here in the collection, a lot of Siripan’s work is abstract. Her recent work has become more conceptual and three dimensional, challenging the traditional view of quilting even further and using it as a very 21st century artistic medium.
This quilt was commissioned by the hospital in 1991, and she worked with students at Falconhurst School, Eaglestone, to design it.
Siripan writes that working on Milton Keynes 1 was the beginning of the most exciting time of her creative life.
The piece uses Thai silk from Siripan’s homeland and the design shows abstract interpretations of her impressions of Milton Keynes’ architecture and landscape, including The Point.
Siripan Kidd is originally from the North-East of Thailand. She lived in the UK for 25 years before returning to Thailand to live in Chiangmai. Siripan was a founder member of Quilt Arts and the Quilters Guild and a member of Suffolk Craft Society.
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Painting | Level 2
Sonia Lawson
Sonia once said ‘I am in painting like a fisherman is part of the sea’ - paint being the means by which to land her ‘catch’ of imagery.
As a painter Sonia has coined the term ‘compressionism’ for her work. She is interested in creating abstraction while keeping the images recognisable.
Her love of the Yorkshire Dales where she was born informs much of her work including this piece. This was painted in the early 1980s, looking over the Dales from the village of Preston Under Scaur. The village is where Sonia’s Aunt Marjorie lived and is close to where Sonia grew up in Castle Bolton. Her parents were also both artists, and their artistic community fed her imagination. Visitors to her parent's Dales cottage included painter Jacob Kramer and author J.B. Priestly.
Sonia recalls that while creating this piece she liked the contrast of the black crows flying through the snow on their way to roost for the evening.
The painting to the left of this one is called 'Flowers for Emma Bovary', and is also by Sonia. It is an earlier painting, circa 1975, and was part of a series of still lives she painted around that time.
Sonia has lived in Leighton Buzzard for nearly 50 years, as well as in Yorkshire. From February to March in 1982 she had a major exhibition 'Shrines of Life' at the Milton Keynes Art Gallery and was elected to the Royal Academy in May that year. However, in April 1982 she and her husband were badly burnt in a large house fire which destroyed many of her paintings and left her hospitalised for weeks, permanently scarring her hands.
Sonia was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease at least 17 years ago, restricting her mobility, but her spirit was far from extinguished by the extra challenges this presents and she continued to paint.
Sonia Lawson was born in Wensleydale in 1934 into a family of artists.
She studied at Doncaster School of Art in 1951, then the Royal College of Art in 1955, later became visiting tutor to the Royal Academy Schools for many years.
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