{"id":806586,"date":"2026-10-18T13:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/806586\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T13:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T13:00:15","slug":"the-oxford-artist-who-honoured-her-cancer-surgeon-with-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/806586\/","title":{"rendered":"The Oxford artist who honoured her cancer surgeon with portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2018, she met fellow artist and friend Paul Starns, with whom she later developed an exhibition at The Art Academy in London in October 2025 that raised funds for cancer charities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We wanted to show that there was hope and it wasn&#8217;t just people that had had breast cancer,&#8221; Swain said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her surgeon was among the 16 women and men they painted, who have had breast cancer or have been involved with someone who had.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s such an amazing man and he&#8217;s so committed to what he does,&#8221; Swain said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been going back to see him for check-ups for the last 14 years, so I feel I know him quite well now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gui also takes part in fundraising events for the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity which supports breakthrough research, patient care and education.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Saturday, he was part of the Thames Towpath Challenge, when he said a number of colleagues had raised just over \u00a39,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2018, she met fellow artist and friend Paul Starns, with whom she later developed an exhibition at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-806586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}