Marion Cheung
The Green Canopy
An expansion into ideas of Abstraction, Creative Writing, and Art-viewing using new processes and materials.
The Green Canopy builds on ‘Threads of Memory, The Spaces Between Us,' a 6-week pilot that explored online delivery and staff training in digital and craft activities on a clinical dementia ward, commissioned by the Arts Charity within Cardiff and Vale University Health Board (CAVUHB).
The Green Canopy explored how viewing art, combined with creative writing, inspired making abstract art. Due to circumstances outside my control (support staff shortages and Covid), the project was postponed. Despite the challenges, I tested the processes with a socially prescribed Women’s Support Group based at the Neighbourhood Learning Centre, Trevethin, (led by Alice Smith, an artist working with Inside Out Cymru).
This experience has strengthened my art practice and has informed me how I will deliver the project with CAVUHB and Mental Health Matters in 2022. The process is new for CAVUHB - involving an artist to co-create with patients and staff. I have visualised what our paintings might look like when they are installed within the hospitals.
Smith, A. 2021. Moonlight. Ancient. Darkness. Poem in response to the image.
Cheung, M. 2021. Under the canopy, I. Plaster, gold leaf, pigment on canvas (detail) 20cm x 20cm.
Cheung, M. 2021. Under the canopy, II. Plaster, gold leaf, pigment on board (15 cm x 20cm)
Cheung, M. 2021. Magenta. Plaster and pigment on board (15 cm x 20cm)
Cheung, M. Opposites. Plaster and pigment on board (15 cm x 20cm)
Smith, A. 2021. Time. Plaster and pigment on board (15 cm x 20cm)
Smith, A. 2021. Anchored in the Twilight of Time. Plaster, gold leaf and pigment on board (15 cm x 20cm)
Smith, A. 2021. Ocean floor. Plaster, gold leaf and pigment on board (15 cm x 20cm)
Wheatstone, M. 2021. The Spaces Between. Plaster, gold leaf and pigment on board (15 cm x 20cm)
Pearce, G. 2021. Cherry Blossom in Spring. Plaster, gold leaf, graphite and pigment on board (15 cm x 20cm)
Gullis, S. 2021. Golden Trees. Plaster, gold leaf and pigment on board (15 cm x 20cm)
Weare, J. 2021. Light through Leaves. Plaster, graphite, gold leaf and pigment on board (15 cm x 20cm)
Painting workshop, August 2021. Scaled up materials. Pigment and Gum Arabic on Fabriano Academia paper. 100cm x 250cm
Cheung, M. Gullis and Wheatstone, 2021. O dan y Coed (Under the Trees) Digital print with LEDs. 21cm x 29.7cm.
Cheung, M. 2021. O dan y Coed. Artwork for digitally printed acrylic floating panels.
Cheung, M. O dan y Coed. Visualisation for St. David’s Hospital, central stairwell. (Each disk, approx. 100cm diameter)
Cheung, M. Artwork for digitally printed acrylic-float panels.
Smith, Weare and Wheatstone, 2021. Artwork for digitally printed acrylic-float panels.
Cheung, M. 2021. Visualisation of participants’ artwork as digitally printed, acrylic-float panels installed within the main stairwell at St. David’s Hospital, Cardiff.
Smith, A. 2021. Anchored in the Twilight of Time. Digitally printed acrylic panel. Visualisation of installation at St. David’s Hospital.
Smith, and Weare, 2021. Visualisation of digitally printed acrylic panel. Visualisation of installation within the main stairwell at St. David’s Hospital.