The Royal Hospital London

I was very lucky to be able to go and photograph the curtains and table tops that I designed for the royal london hospital all installed and in use today! A lovely boy named Shawn Shodimu also allowed me to photograph him before he was going home.

Origami boats bedside table

Garden bedside table

Imaginary Big Ben - Bedside Cabinet

East London Life wrote a nice article about the new children's ward and our design, click here and go to page 4, if you would like to read it.

The Royal Hospital London

Do you remember the Royal Hospital project that we worked on?

We just received some images and are so excited about seeing the real thing printed and being up at the new Children's ward at the Royal Hospital, we will try and go and take some more photos soon, but until then, here is a sneak peak:

The curtain design

And here is one of the table tops that we designed, more to come soon!

The Royal Hospital

Remember the project I did for the Royal Hospital of London's new children's ward? Yesterday I received some images from the hospital and now I can not wait to go and see them and the curtain myself.

Above is the cup board design that I did and below one of the side table top designs (that I photographed in my garden). I hope to be able to show more images soon!

Quick preview of the prototype cabinets

Here are a couple of phone pics from my recent meeting at Vital Arts about the cabinets for the Royal London hospital (Children's ward). Thankfully we had a prototype made up before pressing the button on the manufacture as we now know colours need to be adjusted a lot to cope with the formica product and how it absorbs and alters the colour from ones original.

I then went to Surface View in Reading to approve the correct colours.... it's all a process, and now I have all my fingers and toes crossed for the production to run smoothly and for the final cabinet to look beautiful. I'll update you all once the project is complete.

Table top and cabinet front designs continued....

I have played with the way Big Ben is situated by the River and I wanted to include the famous helicopter as The Royal London is renowned for this emergency service - and I couldn't miss out the buses and black cabs! I would have liked to use an old Routemaster Bus though- and despite the fact I have lots of photos of them from previous projects, I did not have the right angle for this image.

Table top designs for The Royal London Hospital project

I am now in the second stage of the table top and cabinet process, the designs have been submitted and I am scheduled to see the first sample of the tables and the cabinet in 2 weeks from now. The idea around the tables, was to pull in the focus from the playful panoramic view of London (on the curtain) to a close up more personal image. These images give you an idea of what I have done. I wish I had filmed us making these boats and trying to photograph them, it always turns into quite a comedy act when trying to capture something in the 'moment' with the wind, and looming rain, all adding to the crazyness of the day, and more often than not I need to change lenses half way through in order to get all angles and depths of field covered!

The Royal London Hospital commissioned by Vital Arts

I have just completed a brilliant project for Barts and The London Children's hospital, in consulation with children, parents and patients, commissioned by Vital Arts. I have found the whole process, and working with the Vital Arts Team very fulfilling, both on a personal note and creatively. The main reason for this is because there is a real 'purpose' to the job.

My whole pitch was giving the child the 'prize' of the image, so rather than the visitor being bombarded with textile curtains in a ward, they are greeted by coloured panels; and the children, when having to be private, have the curtain drawn to reveal a made up London skyline. There are insects and animals hiding in the foreground and plenty to keep the boys and the girls distracted with boats and pirate ships on the water.
It has been a real challenge to ensure we can get the quality of print and saturation of colour on the finished article, the manufacturers have worked very hard with the odd prod from me to ensure the finished product is beautiful. I am very excited about actually seeing them all installed. I shall update you when the hospital opens. And I have more exciting news to follow this post on a further commission linked to this.

Royal London Children's Hospital panel design

Ella has recently been commissioned to design curtain panels to be used in the Royal London Children's Hospital;

'Vital Arts, the arts organisation for Barts and the London NHS Trust, have commissioned Ella Doran to create a textile design for paediatric curtains at the new Royal London Children's Hospital which will open in 2012.'

For more info on what Vital Arts do click on this link - www.vitalarts.org.uk