John Bellany & The Scottish Women's Hospitals - Scottish Parliament

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The artist John Bellany painted a series of work on Elsie Inglis, a prominent. Scottish female doctor who served in the
John Bellany & The Scottish Women’s Hospitals The artist John Bellany painted a series of work on Elsie Inglis, a prominent Scottish female doctor who served in the First World War and established the Scottish Women’s Hospitals. She also set up her own medical college and founded a maternity hospital in Edinburgh. John Bellany’s art covers the period of Elsie Inglis’ life when she worked in field hospitals in France and Serbia during the First World War. There she treated wounded soldiers, and performed surgery on their injuries. As John Bellany was not alive at the same time as Elsie Inglis, his paintings are based on photographs taken at the time. Bellany has used the photographs and the people in them to create imagined expressive portraits. He concentrated on the faces, imagining the backgrounds to help show off the faces and feelings of the person in the painting.

Imagine you were a doctor, soldier, nurse or surgeon during the First World War. Draw or paint a self-portrait using John Bellany’s imagined expressive style – you could use a photograph to help you.