paintings in hospitals
Welcome to Paintings in Hospitals. We provide art for a range of health and community care providers to enhance environments and boost wellbeing. We represent a range of national artists and have an online shop so that you can also experience the power of art and its effect on people.

About our collection
Our art collection is the only national arts in health collection. Over 1,000 artists are represented, including Bridget Riley, Antony Gormley, Maggi Hambling, Yinka Shonibare, Gillian Ayres, Ian Davenport and many more and many more.
Paintings in Hospitals makes it easy for health and community care services to benefit from our art.
Art changes everything
Art can help us stay well, aid our recovery, and support us to live longer, better lives. But the benefits don’t end there!

Inspiring better health
Activities and Workshops
Our art activities and workshops (both digital and practical) exist to empower patients and carers with the skills and confidence needed to make the most of art’s power to inspire better health and wellbeing.
Buy artwork and help the charity
Our shop
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Alfons Bytautas, Winter Hill, Watercolour
£120.00 -
Alicia Boyle, Little Pear Tree, Oil on Canvas
£800.00 -
Andrew Chetham ‘Sunset’ Pastel (2006)
£110.00 -
Angela Gladwell, ‘Paris, Pont Marie’ Pastel
£50.00 -
Angela McGahan, Red Venice, Embroidered Textile, 2001
£200.00 -
Anita Klein, Women on the Beach, Screen Print
£900.00 -
Ann Winn, ‘A Shrine for Ganesh, Evening’ Oil on Canvas (2009)
£1,000.00 -
Ann Winn, ‘A Shrine for Ganesh’, Oil on Canvas (2009)
£1,000.00
Latest News, Event & Blog Articles
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Featured on Bloomberg Connects
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15 New Artworks Arrive at Stroke Rehabilitation Unit at University Hospital Llandough
Last week 15 new artworks from our collection arrived at the Stroke Rehabilitation Unit at University Hospital Llandough. The new artworks were carefully chosen through a...
Event & Blog Articles
Articles
Sandra-Bruce Gordon – House of Lords
"In 1959 an almoner named Sheridan Russell hung a painting on a wall of a London Hospital, Sheridan passionately believed in the healing potential of artists creative endeavours,...
Maisie Broadhead’s Award-Winning Portrait ‘Take a Break – Zoe’
Artist Maisie Broadhead, whose work features in the Paintings in Hospitals collection, is the winner of the Gender (In)Equality and Health category of the Global Health...