Artfelt

Artfelt is The Children’s Hospital Charity’s arts programme. Artfelt transforms the hospital’s walls and spaces with bright art, helping children recover in an environment tailored to them. The programme also puts on workshops for youngsters to provide distraction during anxious moments – such as before an operation, and to break up long stays on the wards.

Artfelt collaborate with artists and designers to work directly on improving spaces at SCH. They create art, graphics, photography, and decoration especially for the hospital, working sensitively and creatively to address the needs of each space and its users; whether its familiar and nostalgic distractions in an x-ray suite, gadget-filled waiting rooms for adolescents or soothing spaces for parents.

Their workshops are a great way to get children socialising, expressing and enjoying themselves and are such a valuable way to make hospital feel better.

Clementine

This Little Bear was designed by Patients on Ward 3 at Sheffield Children’s Hospital with Artfelt artist Jordanna Farrimond.

Clementine was painted in November, just after the autumn leaves had fallen so the children on Ward 3 decided to use warm autumn colours inspired by the time of year. Artfelt artist Jordanna Farrimond encouraged the children to extend the autumn theme by printing leaves over the top and the children added a bit of ‘bling’, giving Clementine a gold bracelet. Clementine’s white stripes are bandages which the children chose to show that Clementine, like them, was a patient in hospital at the time of painting!