Bus Shelters Showcase Care Home Art
Care home resident, Audrey Coward, has had work from her life drawing classes selected to adorn bus shelters in Hastings. Audrey, 82, who lives at Hastings Court Care Home on The Ridge, is one of a number of local artists…
Drawing Life – from sketchbook to screen
Sussex-based charity, Drawing Life, holds life drawing classes for people with dementia. Project Director, Judy Parkinson, writes about the challenges they faced in 2020. It is said that every cloud has a silver lining. 2020 has given us no shortage…
Drawing Life’s No-tech Solution to the Covid-19 Lockdown
Drawing Life, the Hastings-based charity, brings art to people living with dementia and other age-related conditions. Now they are releasing a lockdown-proof sketchbook so that their artists can continue drawing. For the last five years we have held regular…
Drawing Life In The Boatyard Café
Hastings ContemporaryUntil 22nd March 2020Proceeds from the sale of work go to the Drawing Life charity. By Julia Mortimer The Drawing Life project has grown, almost beyond recognition. Long-term readers will remember the days when we looked at the drawings…
In the Moment
An Exhibition Inspired by People Living With Dementia Depot, Pinwell Road, Lewes, BN7 2JSSaturday 28 September – Saturday 19 October 2019 Preview by Susan de Muth At the end of May this year, I reported to HIP readers on the…
Drawing Life
The row of artists intently study the models before them – a pair of dancers frozen in a Tango move – then begin to sketch. These are no ordinary artists, but people living with dementia, and their focus and concentration…