Our trustees

Our trustees

Our trustees play a vital role, overseeing major decisions about the charity.

We aim to ensure that our trustees share a diverse range of skills. Find out more about them below.

Prof Jane Anderson CBE, BSc, MBBS, PhD, FRCP, FRSA, SFFMLM

Professor Jane Anderson is our Chair. She is an internationally recognised figure, academic and clinical leader with extensive experience in fast-moving and politically sensitive areas of medicine, health, and public policy. As an experienced board and committee chair and charity trustee, Professor Anderson has the leadership expertise, communication, advocacy, and influencing skills, to support Paintings in Hospitals further towards our ambitious vision to revolutionise art and creativity in healthcare environments, for the wellbeing of all.  

Professor Marion Lynch

Marion is a Nurse and Consultant in International Health Systems, Quality Improvement and Innovation. She was formerly Deputy Medical Director at NHS England, South East. From a family of nurses, Marion’s first role was on a Haematology Unit at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, caring for teenagers with Leukaemia. A portfolio career with academic opportunities, including receiving her Doctorate, has led to roles including Programmes Lead for Patient Leadership at the NHS Leadership Academy in the Thames Valley. Marion is also a Visiting Professor in Dementia Care with the University of West London, where she teaches and supervises students. Last year she set up her own charity, the Fiona Foundation for Kids, in order to provide special care for children living in the Mathare slums in Nairobi, Kenya.

Robert Milburn

Robert is a Chartered Accountant and was an audit partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers for 25 years until his retirement in 2014. Since then, he has been a trustee of Parks for London (2014 to 2018) and is currently a trustee and governor at The Lady Eleanor Holles School in South West London and chairs a small charity raising funds to help vulnerable young people in Lebanon. Robert also sits on the audit and risk committees of the care sector charity Marie Curie, the Valuation Office Agency, The National Archives, and Canal and River Trust.

Patrick Bourne

Patrick Bourne has been dealing in, and advising on, British paintings since opening his first gallery in Edinburgh in 1979. In 2000 he merged his company Bourne Fine Art with The Fine Art Society of New Bond Street and was managing director of the group for the next twelve years. During that time he increased the company’s involvement in contemporary art in their London gallery and showed works by Sir Peter Blake, Jeremy Deller, Chris Levine, David Inshaw, John Byrne and Emily Young. He was chairman of The Society of London Art Dealers for five years and has acted as an independent valuer of British paintings for the Arts Council. He set up Atelier Books who publish monographs on Scottish artists and himself wrote a biography of Anne Redpath.

Since 2012 he has run Patrick Bourne & Co with his wife Cordelia from rooms in St James’s Place where they operate as independent art advisers.

Farha Quadri

Farha is the Programme Lead for a major transformation programme at King’s College Hospital, designed to improve urgent and emergency care. Prior to working for the NHS, Farha was a strategy consultant at KPMG where she specialised in the healthcare and life sciences industries and advised C-suite leaders on growth strategy, organisational change and global health systems. She has an undergraduate degree from Oxford University in French and Spanish and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University. During her time at Columbia, Farha worked as a policy advisor to former US president Bill Clinton at The Clinton Foundation.

Catherine Vickery

Vice President of Legal Services at HCA Healthcare UK.

Amanda Pinto KC

Amanda is an internationally recognised barrister specialising in business fraud, corruption and money-laundering. In 2020, she was Chair of the Bar, ensuring that justice was delivered properly throughout a period acutely affected by Covid, Brexit and Black Lives Matter. A defender of the rule of law, she collaborated with government, politicians, the judiciary and the justice sector domestically and internationally. She is an acknowledged leader in promoting diversity and equality in the justice system and beyond. Amanda is a part-time judge, author of corporate crime and sanctions textbooks and a Bencher of Middle Temple.

She is an enthusiastic art lover and, as trustee, oversaw the members’ charity merge into Tate, becoming Deputy Chair of Tate Members Council.

Our Board of Trustees has two subcommittees covering Finance and Strategic Engagement. You can find out more about them here.