Visual Artist in Healthcare, St Mary's Hospital, Newport, Isle of Wight. Working for Healing Arts on arts projects with Mental Health patients and special needs clients at day centres across the Isle of Wight and at Sevenacres, the acute mental health unit at St Mary's NHS Hospital.

The Residency involved working with a wide range of clients with mental health problems and needs; liasing with healthcare staff to evolve therapeutic practises, using creative tools such as drawing, collage and photography as therapeutic tools towards improving self-esteem and creating a better environmental framework for continuing recovery.

Clients were invited to make drawings of favourite or remembered places where they had felt particularly well or free from stressful mental states. In eight programmes of workshops clients have been encouraged to draw aspects of nature that appeal to them or that have a therapeutic effect.

SYVACURE

Medicinal garden at St Mary's Hospital - called Sylvacure. It includes Silvia and much planting with wavy lines of bulbs currently being investigated for use in mental health with flowers, such as muscari (grape hyacinth).