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"Cheshire based Artist, Louise Crawford in conjunction with Royal Manchester Children’s' Hospital and The Many Hands Campaign is working on a fascinating new project to mark 60 years of dedicated and specialist services on the Burns Unit. Louise will be creating therapeutic and interactive art workshops with the children to provide distraction from burns treatments, which are often painful and very distressing. 

The art created by the children will be available to view online through our virtual gallery and on social media pages, at:

www.louisecrawfordfineart.co.uk

Louise turned back to art herself after a life changing back injury, as a distraction from Chronic Pain. During the ten years of exploring artistic styles before finding her own artistic voice, Louise found the work came flooding out in a very organic way, forged by the need for regular movement to ease the pain. Jackson Pollock’s ‘action paintings’ have always been a great influence to her work amongst the technique of many others great artists. However, moving around the canvas and immersing herself in the painting, rather than sitting statically gave the work a rhythm and life of it’s own.

Louise wanted to use her experiences to benefit others by doing more than raise money alone. With a belief that communication and expression through art can be a powerful healer, leading to a collaboration with the RMCH of creating a series of six new pieces of work with the theme of Symbolism as a guide for the children involved to work towards. The research gathered throughout several months, along with painting techniques of well-known artists was merged together to create the exhibition. The work was uploaded online so the children could interact with the outside world to help them feel less isolated.

To raise money for this very worthy cause, please make a donation on line through our Just Giving page. Links are found on the events page at www.louisecrawfordfineart.co.uk. Any donation of £5 and over will be automatically entered into our raffle to win one of the wonderful prizes, which have been generously donated by local business. For the fabulous auction prizes on offer, we would like people to e- mail their bids to info@louisecrawfordfineart.co.uk. Updates on bids placed will be posted on our Facebook page. Winners will then be notified by the end of March.

All funds raised will go directly to The Many Hands Campaign at “The Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital”.The Many Hands Campaign spearheaded by one of the UK’s most high profile businessmen, Theo Paphitis aims to encourage local businesses to help fundraise for the unit by committing to raise £1000 over a twelve-month period. 

No matter how small every penny really does count. Donating through Just Giving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with Just Giving – they’ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they’ll send your money directly to the charity. So it’s the most efficient way to donate – saving time and cutting costs for the charity. Donations made in foreign currencies are automatically converted into the equivalent amount in £ by Just Giving. Please ensure that you add your name to your Just Giving donation. 

Winners will be drawn at the PRIZE GIVING FINALE, on Sunday 22nd March, at the old  KNUTSFORD TOWN HALL, Princess Street 16.00-19.00. The venue has been kindly donated by Monckton Properties, Event Buddha are transforming the room, we have live music from Catherine Taylor Dawson and a selection of speciality beers from Tatton Brewery!

If that wasn't enough, we have a special star guest Ashley Taylor- Dawson to draw the raffle for us!