Reigate artist Adam Green has created the Lives & Times screen print to raise funds for Beating Bowel Cancer / Bowel Cancer UK, the UK's leading bowel cancer charity. The print sized 39cm x 49cm on 300gsm Somerset paper is limited to just 25 copies. This wonderful piece of art was done at Ochre Print Studio, who have very kindly donated all the materials Adam used ensuring that the whole of the purchase price is donated to the charity. Over £3750 has been raised to date, so any purchase of the print would push that figure towards £4000.
The print can be purchased from my bowelcancerfundraising.co.uk website or you can email me directly. Get your own piece of art for just £125 and raise funds for Beating Bowel Cancer. Adam's work sells for a lot more usually, so it's a great opportunity to own a piece of his work.
Adam's description, "The print I have produced has been inspired by Tim's book, Lives & Times. A book created to raise funds for Beating Bowel Cancer after Tim's Mum was diagnosed in 2012. I was really taken with the concept of what Tim was doing with his book, travelling the length and breadth of the UK to meet and photograph famous sportspeople, musicians, actors, DJs etc. The front cover of the book shows two silhouettes facing each other. I took this idea and developed my print with this in mind, thinking about the one to one interaction Tim had with many people in order to create his book. The print is made up of many different layers, each one possibly signifying the different stages in the journey that people follow once being diagnosed with cancer. I am very pleased to have produced this print for Tim and his charity. I really hope it brings joy and positive thoughts to all those who purchase one."
I was so pleased that Mum saw the finished print after I picked them up from Adan in the summer of 2016. At that ;point her condition was terminal and she was Wexham Park Hospital awaiting her transfer to the St. Marks Nursing Home in Maidenhead, where she spent the last few weeks of life on palliative care before passing away on August 29th 2016. Bowel cancer takes 16,000 lives in the UK each year. It is the second highest cancer killer, but if detected early it is one of the most treatable in 90% of cases. Much more needs to be done in increasing awareness about this awful disease and help to improve early diagnosis rates.
