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'It gives me something to hold on to': readers' art in lockdown
Jul 6, 2020
‘Drawing gives me something to hold on to’
My father was diagnosed with terminal cancer on Christmas Eve and called me at 6pm to tell us. We had no idea. He had been going for tests but hadn’t told us. He became unwell quickly, to the point that my sister and I had to swap care the day before lockdown so he would have someone with him. I joined her and her partner to care for him in the final couple of weeks, when all I could do was draw as the waiting and stress were unbearable for us all.
He couldn’t manage conversation so it gave me a role to sit silently beside him, drawing the garden he designed so beautifully. In the following excruciating days it was the only thing that felt remotely OK. We had no palliative cancer team because of Covid, but had a fabulous GP and district nursing team for the last few days. Seeing his garden appearing through the end of my pen gives me something to hold on to. Kara Christine
‘I wanted to design something as a tribute to key workers’
I was inspired by all of the key workers during the pandemic as my parents both work for the NHS. I wanted to design something as a tribute to everyone, from cleaners to bin men, putting in the effort especially for those who have been forgotten. Niamh McBride
‘I have become fixated with a bathroom sink’
Lockdown has given everyday objects I took for granted a deep and renewed significance. Every single day I see, use and sometimes even talk to them. Recently I have become fixated with a bathroom sink – the one I wash my hands in for 20 seconds every time I come inside. I am furloughed from my job and I shut myself in to a tiny downstairs bathroom and spend hours drawing or painting it each day, whether I feel happy, anxious, upset, excited, or just bored. The sink has become a mirror of how I feel, an image of the claustrophobia of lockdown, and, in a strange way, a companion. Claire Parker
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