BMJ 2008;336:910 (26 April), doi:10.1136/bmj.39559.344896.DB
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Being "humorous without being disrespectful"
Zosia Kmietowicz
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Anyone with children will have no trouble putting a name to the sketchy strokes that have brought stories to life for millions of children worldwide. Quentin Blake, who has illustrated and written more than 200 children’s books in the past 50 years, has for the past three years also been involved with the Nightingale Project (www.nightingaleproject.org), a charity set up to get art and music into hospitals that care for people with mental health problems. An exhibition of new work, called Hand Tinted, is showing at the South Kensington and Chelsea Mental Health Centre, the project’s base.
Mr Blake said that he was drawn to the project because the pictures were directed at the centre’s staff and its users, psychiatric patients, who, like himself, are getting on in years. "I thought it would be interesting to find a way of being humorous without being disrespectful to older
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