For the Dyson Cancer Centre at the Royal United Hospital in Bath, the brief was to respond to the soon to be constructed Green Heart Garden. I visited Hauser and Wirth many times throughout the seasons as the proposed garden is due to reflect a naturalistic garden theme. I also studied the planting scheme for the new garden and then gathered my visual research accordingly.

Photos by Amanda Jackson. Commissioned by Art at the Heart, Bath and North East Somerset NHS Foundation Trust.

I knew that plants needed to be tall so that service users would be able to see them peeping from behind the recliner chairs in Chemotherapy or act as a gentle visible distraction in the treatments rooms.

The smaller works are printed on plywood, giving warmth and less clinical feel to a hospital environment. The bespoke garden design runs along the back wall of the Chemotherapy Suite. This will look over the Green Heart Garden once it is constructed. The design shifts in colour from one end of the room to the other; a gentle ‘nod’ to the seasons without being too obvious in such a sensitive setting.