Faye is a linocut printmaker as well as a doctor working in respiratory care at Cwm Taf Health Board. Breathe of Life brings together these two areas of Faye’s professional life.

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The Lungs print was the first created in a series of anatomical and medical themed prints which express gratitude and awe at modern medicine and healthcare.

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‘1933 Nightingale’ is inspired by the nightingale wards still in use and little changed in layout at University Hospital Llandough. This is followed but the anaesthetic equipment from 1932 ‘Magills Aparatus’ and then a portrait of Aneurin Bevan. As you move through the exhibition there is a shift from the history (black and white prints) to the colourful interpretations of anatomical drawings of the skull, brain, heart and lungs via Faye’s Covid self portrait.

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Visual arts and creativity are an important part of maintaining her own wellbeing and she believes that the arts should have a central role in healthcare. From enriching the healthcare environment to their use in therapeutic interventions which are too often overlooked and sidelined.