Horwich Advertiser Issue 621

April 2025 Page 11 AD SALES 01204 478812 WE SELL RECYCLED FURNITURE AND FURNISHINGS ALL AT VERY COMPETITIVE PRICES TO DONATE YOUR GOODS AND ARRANGE A FREE COLLECTION CALL 01204 398056 Opening Times: Monday-Friday 9.00am - 5pm Saturday 10am - 4pm DERBY BARRACKS, FLETCHER STREET, BOLTON BL3 6NF www.emmaus-bolton.org.uk • info@emmausbolton.org.uk GARDEN CENTRE Come along for all your bedding plants and more! AN inspired artist’s hospice paintings have gone on show at Bolton Museum and Art Gallery. Created by celebrated artist Ghislaine Howard, the compelling works capture patients and staff in the Well-Being Hub at the hospice. The paintings are the result of her year-long association with the Hospice, which began in 2023. The artist spent time talking to and observ- ing patients and staff at the site on Queens Park Street in the town. She was particularly drawn to the activities in the hub, where people with life-limiting condi- tions can come to social- ise and enjoy therapies and occupational activi- ties of various kinds. The two paintings on display have been selected from a group of works Ghislaine pro- duced in response to the intimate moments of care she witnessed at the hospice. She enjoys a national reputation as a figura- tive painter whose work reaches out from the personal and domestic to those issues that affect us all. Her work is in many private and public col- lections, including the Royal Collection. The artist is best known for her ability to create compelling images that relate to shared human experiences, from the moment of birth to the moment of death. The Bolton Hospice paintings, including At the Salon and After Reiki, continue her com- mitment to these themes. One of the reasons she wanted to work at the hospice was because of her awareness of Barbara Hepworth’s painting The Mag- nifying Glass (1948), which is on display in Bolton Museum and Art Gallery. That striking image of an ear operation was created in the year that the NHS was founded. Ghislaine said: “I’ve always loved this series of drawings and paint- ings by Barbara Hep- worth, and this one is particularly inspira- tional, as I love the way she has suggested the care, concentration and the intensity of the med- ical team’s shared focus on the job in hand. “She immediately draws the viewer into the composition, almost as if one was part of the team, and Hepworth’s picture inspired me to attempt to capture something simi- lar at Bolton Hospice. “I am grateful to the staff at the hospice for allowing me to spend time observing their vitally important work.” This project is also associated with Greater Manchester Cham- ber of Commerce, who invited her to curate a selection of work at their headquarters. The invitation inspired her to set up an initiative that she called Ten Bor- oughs/Ten Paintings. She said: “The idea is simple: each year, I select a work of art from one of the public galler- ies of the ten Greater Manchester boroughs and develop a painterly ‘conversation’ with it, and the first borough I chose was Bolton.” The paintings will be on display until the end of the year. IN BRIEF ADLINGTON town mayor’s prize bingo evening, held at St Paul’s Church Club raised £738 to support the work of the Inspire Youth Zone. A PROJECT to refurbish the Horwich town crest outside the public hall got underway last month. B33r @ 33 on Lee Lane in Horwich has been awarded Pub of the Year and Cider Pub of the Year by the Bolton CAMRA group. A WINE tasting evening is being held at Lostock Tennis Club on Regent Road to raise cash for the mayor of Horwich’s chosen charities. The event will take place on April 12, starting at 7pm. Tickets are £20. NEW solar panel funding has been awarded to Bolton NHS Foundation Trust, which will save it £22,000 a year. HOSPICE ART GOES ON SHOW Compelling: One of the hospice paintings (Photo credit: Bolton Council)