{"id":380023,"date":"2025-12-30T08:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/380023\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T08:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:24:07","slug":"sheffield-childrens-hospital-unveils-lion-sculpture-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/380023\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield Children&#8217;s Hospital unveils lion sculpture trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leah Edwards is one of the artists and already runs workshops for patients and staff at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I run dog life drawing and this is something that I&#8217;ve done at the Children&#8217;s Hospital with their therapy dogs and so I thought it would be lovely to do a design based around the therapy dogs,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve gone for very bold and simple design with high pigment blue and yellow. I draw in a continuous line so they&#8217;re simple line drawings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Artist Jonathan Wilkinson was involved with the previous two art trails and was keen to apply again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m an illustrator, primarily painting and digital painting, doing urban landscapes and buildings with a tinge of nostalgia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This project is more of an imaginary landscape because the shape and contours of the lion and lioness demanded a slightly different approach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s more of a mysterious landscape that features recognisable buildings and motifs, a bit of a greatest hits of Sheffield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s hand painted which is nice because I don&#8217;t always get to do that but with a kind of punchy Looney Tunes illustrative look.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leah Edwards is one of the artists and already runs workshops for patients and staff at the hospital.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-380023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}